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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In the Wikipedia entry for Sir Archibald Bodkin, it says:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>He also successfully opposed the 1928 lesbian novel by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hall" title="Radclyffe Hall"><span style='color:#0645AD;text-decoration:none'>Radclyffe Hall</span></a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_of_Loneliness" title="The Well of Loneliness"><span style='color:#0645AD;text-decoration:none'>The Well of Loneliness</span></a></i>, and attempted to find an expert who would tell a court of: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>the results to those unfortunate women (as I deem them) who have proclivities towards lesbianism, or those wicked women (as I deem them) who voluntarily indulge in these practices—results destructive morally, physically and even perhaps mentally.</span><sup id="cite_ref-13"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Bodkin#cite_note-13"><span style='color:#0645AD;text-decoration:none'>[13]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;orphans: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Eventually, Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_Willcox&action=edit&redlink=1" title="William Henry Willcox (page does not exist)"><span style='color:#BA0000;text-decoration:none'>William Henry Willcox</span></a> gave evidence for the government and the book was not released until 1949. He also opposed the publication of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence"><span style='color:#0645AD;text-decoration:none'>D. H. Lawrence</span></a>'s poem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pansies_(poem)&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Pansies (poem) (page does not exist)"><span style='color:#BA0000;text-decoration:none'>Pansies</span></a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-14"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Bodkin#cite_note-14"><span style='color:#0645AD;text-decoration:none'>[14]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Stephen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+sbarkway=btinternet.com@lists.osu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 April 2020 09:03<br><b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "a letter of introduction” in "A Room"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>“a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>We now know that this is not correct as far as Trinity College Library is concerned (see VWB No. 6, p.30), but, following the suffragette slashing of the <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Rokeby Venus</span></em> in March 1914, “At the British Museum, women could be admitted only if they were accompanied by a man or, if unaccompanied, could produce a letter of recommendation from a gentleman.” (Bostridge, Mark (2014), <i>The Fateful Year: England 1914</i>, London: Viking, imprint of Penguin Books, p.52)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>In the 1970s I met a centenarian Australian, who had been a governess in London before and during the First World War (like VW, she noted how terrified the servants were of the Zeppelins), and she remembered how you couldn’t go into the National Gallery and elsewhere with an umbrella, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>“That cupboard there,—you say it holds clean table-napkins only; but what if Sir Archibald Bodkin were concealed among them?”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Bodkin (1862–1957) was a lawyer and Director of Public Prosecutions (1920–30), in which role he was particularly committed to the suppression of what he regarded as obscene literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Diego Velázquez’ (1599–1660) “Venus at her Mirror” (the “Rokeby Venus”) in the National Gallery, London, was axed by the suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882–1961) on 10 March 1914. She and Rachel Peace had previously set fire to “The Elms” in Hampton, Surrey (unfortunate, because the empty house was owned by the Countess of Carlisle, “an ardent, though non-militant, campaigner for women’s rights”). Miss Peace alone appeared at the Old Bailey, as Miss Richardson “was too ill through hunger-striking”. “The trial was remarkable for the pandemonium which broke out.” Anyway, it is pleasant to read that one of the demonstrators “succeeded in hitting the gown of Mr. (later Sir) Archibald Bodkin, the prosecuting counsel, with an over-ripe tomato”. (It was worth paying the £9 for "The Women's Suffrage Movement in and around Richmond and Twickenham" just for that).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>(Day 39)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>