[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf and British Fascism

[Catherine Hollis]

Lord Redesdale does indeed sound like a "truly tyrannical" father -- and a
deeply uneducated/unintellectual man. Quite the opposite of Leslie Stephen!

But what an interesting family/milieu/issue to consider on a Tuesday!

Best,

Catherine

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Jeannette Smyth <
jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net> wrote:

> The phrase refers to Lord Redesdale. As my hurried and imprecise phrasing
> suggests but does not, apparently, convey.
> Jeannette Smyth
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Mark Hussey wrote:
>
> Is it really accurate to say Leslie Stephen was “a truly tyrannical father
> who violently opposed the education of women”? Julia Stephen was certainly
> opposed to institutionalized education for women, but Leslie seems to have
> been more open to the idea. And VW did take university courses, and was not
> taught by governesses.
>
>
>

-- 
Catherine W. Hollis, PhD
Assistant Editor, The Emma Goldman Papers
Instructor, Fall Program for Freshmen
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
hollisc at berkeley.edu
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