Janet Elizabeth Case
Janet Elizabeth Case (1863–1937) was a British
Early life and education
Case was born in Hampstead, London, in 1863, to William Arthur Case and Sarah Wolridge Stansfeld; she was the youngest of their six daughters.
In 1884 Case co-founded Girton College's classical club; she was an active participant in Cambridge productions of
Career
After leaving Cambridge, Case taught Classics from 1887 to 1896 at Maida Vale High School, as well as offering private tuition.[1] While working as a tutor, she taught Greek to a young Virginia Woolf from 1902 to 1907. After this instruction ended, Case and Woolf developed a close friendship that would last until Case's death in 1937.[6] Woolf wrote Case's obituary, which was published in The Times on 22 July 1937.
Case published her translation of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus in 1905.[7]
From 1925 to 1937 she wrote a weekly "Country Diaries" column for the
Activism
Case became involved in the
References
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- ^ Sutherland, Gillian (2015). In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 62.
- ^ "At last, a degree of honour for 900 Cambridge women". The Independent. 31 May 1998. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ Easterling, Pat, 'The early years of the Cambridge Greek Play, 1882-1912', in Stray, Chris (1999, ed.), 27-47, pp. 29-30.
- ^ "Eumenides | The Cambridge Greek Play". www.cambridgegreekplay.com. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ a b Alley, Henry M. (1982). "A Rediscovered Eulogy: Virginia Woolf's 'Miss Janet Case: Classical Scholar and Teacher.'" Twentieth Century Literature. 28:3.
- ^ Foster, Finley Melville Kendall (1918). English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey, Volume 22. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 8.
- ^ Wainwright, Martin. “First Eleven,” The Guardian, 30 August 2008. Retrieved on 16 November 2017.
- Nicolson, Nigeland Joanne Trautmann, eds. (1975). The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume I. New York: Harcourt. p. 421.