A Room of Ones Own Visual Notes

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A Room of Ones Own Visual Notes

• E.K. Sparks
• Clemson University
• Fall 2004

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Chapter I -- Cambridge
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Sitting on the banks of a river..Willows
directly across the River from the Wren Library
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the willows wept in perpetual lamentationThe
river reflected whatever it chose of sky and
bridge and tree... . The undergraduates boat.
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Cambridge TrinityCollege Great CourtPlease
Keep Off the Grass
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one could follow Lambs footsteps across the
quadrangle to that famous library Wren
Library, Trinity College
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this famous library Interior of Wren
Library MS of Lycidas
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Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridgethis
famous library
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The organ complained mightily as I passed the
chapel doorKings College Chapel
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Many were in cap and gown some had tufts of fur
on their shoulders Picture of academic
procession from Three Guineas
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the outside of the chapelits high domes and
pinnacles can be seen like a sailing ship always
voyaging never arriving, lit up at night and
visible for miles (Kings College, Cambridge )
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This quadrangle with its smooth lawnsKings
College
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Woolfs Walk in Cambridge
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Main Dining Room, Kings College, Cambridge(2nd
Floor, lights lit for diner)
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I missed the turning up to Fernham. The
turning to Newnham College
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Newnham College Entrancethe door was left open
and no beadles seemed aboutthe windows of the
building, curved like ships windows among
generous waves of red brick
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The gardens of Fernham lay before me. . . wild
and openNewnham College Quadrangle
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Newnham College Lecture Hall (Frances Spaulding
and Anne Oliver Bell)
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One thought ofthe pictures of old prelates and
worthies hanging in the panelledrooms of the
tablets and memorials and inscrptions.. Trinity
College Chapel statues and plaques
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Chapter II London and the British Museum
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The British Museum was another department of the
factory Now Then
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British Museum The Old Reading Room
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There one stood under the vast domeNew BM
Reading Room
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The New British Museum
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Humanities Reading Room at the New British Library
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Room Walk through London
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Admiralty Arch
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the statue of the Duke of Cambridge..the
feathers in his cocked hat Military Statues
Down Whitehall
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Chapter IV Thinking Back Through Our Mothers
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Anne Finch, Margaret Cavendish, Dorothy Osborne
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Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn in Westminster Abbey Proof that wit
is no defense against mortality
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Fanny Burney, Florence Nightingale
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Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte