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Weidenborner) Writing Effective Paragraphs, 1974; The Bantam Book of Spelling, 1986; My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship, 1995; From the Lighthouse to Monk's House: A Guide to Virginia Woolf's Literary Landscapes. Work represented in anthologies. Address: Department of English, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, 720 Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY 11548-1300, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected] Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. MLA Chicago APA. "Hill-Miller, Katherine C(ecelia) ." Writers Directory 2005 . Retrieved June 04, 2021 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hill-miller-katherine-cecelia. Citation styles. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). Within the “Cite this article” tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Blogging Woolf. Focusing on Virginia Woolf and the Blooomsbury Group. Spring break on the beach at St. Ives. Friday 18 March 2011 by Paula Maggio. Technically, I’m on spring break. I have had a break from teaching and preparing for classes, but I haven’t gone anywhere. No sun, no sand, no waves tickling my toes. So I pushed my current project aside and took a three-minute beach break in St. Ives, Cornwall, where Virginia Woolf spent her summers until the age of 12. Join me there now. I’ve got the sunscreen. Share this: Like this: 4 Responses. […] Spring break on the beach at St. Ives Rate this:Share this:Like this:LikeBe the first to like this. […] […] Spring break on the beach at St. Ives […] Kathy, thanks for the information. If I ever get back to St. Ives, I will do my best to follow your advice. I’ll also add this information to the In Her Steps page. I have read your book, and I recommend it to anyone interested in following in Woolf’s footsteps. Needless to say–utterly jealous! But while you’re in St. Ives, be sure to take the walk to Tren Crom, which Virginia made many times with father and family. You can find the route in my book From the Lighthouse to Monk’s House: A Guide to Virginia Woolf’s Literary Landscapes (Duckworth, 2001). The best place to begin is at the Badger Inn, where Virginia spent Christmas in 1909. (It was then known as the Lelant Hotel.) The round trip will take several hours, but it’s worth it. Have fun! Kathy Hill-Miller. Julia Stephen: From Freshwater Bay To The Lighthouse. Pity has no creed. We are bound to these sufferers by the tie of sisterhood and while life lasts we will help, soothe, and, if we can, love them. Women are not all blind followers of men. They have power to think as well, and they will not weaken their power of helping and loving by fearlessly owning their ignorance when they should be convinced of it. Women should not reject religion merely because they desire to please men. Man and woman have equal rights but with different areas of influence. Women do not stand on the same ground as men with regard to work, though we are far from allowing that our work is lower or less important than theirs, but we ought and do claim the same equality of morals. [1] When aunt Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) took an albumen print of her ‘favourite niece’, Mrs Herbert Duckworth, the year was 1867 and Mrs Duckworth had been married for less than a year. She was born Julia Jackson, and her image would go down in the annals of history as one of the great beauties, but little is known of this mysterious woman. An image captured in a moment by a family member would launch infinite mystery and curiosity. Julia Jackson and Mia Jackson, by the London Photographic Company. Albumen print, c. 1867. National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. She was born Julia Prinsep Jackson on 7 February 1846 in Calcutta, India, the daughter of Dr. John Jackson and Maria Theodosia Pattle, youngest sister of Julia Margaret Cameron. The Prinsep name enters the frame when another aunt, Sarah Pattle, married Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792-1878). She became cousin to their son Valentine Cameron Prinsep. Julia and her mother – known as ‘Mia’ -stayed with Sarah and Thoby Prinsep from 1848 until Dr. Jackson returned to England in 1855. The matriarch of the family moved them into Brent Lodge, Hendon, while Julia was educated at home, becoming her mother’s nurse and companion. The Jacksons lived at Brent Lodge for ten years and the story goes that a young, 21 year-old beauty, Julia Jackson, paid a visit to her cousins at Little Holland House where she met a 34 year-old barrister named Herbert Duckworth. She later admitted that part of her attraction to him was his straightforwardness with her. He stood out among the other men who ‘attempted’ to court her; namely, sculptor Thomas Woolner and painter William Holman Hunt. Julia and Herbert Duckworth by Oscar Rejlander, 1867. Leslie Stephen’s Photograph Album, plate 33a. Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. Mr. and Mrs. Duckworth were married for three years. They were devoted to each other, rarely apart – ‘the greatest happiness that can fall to the lot of a woman’ [2] – until, in September 1870, while Herbert was attempting to pick a ripe fig from a tree branch, an undiagnosed internal abscess burst and he died. Julia Duckworth lay grieving for hours on her husband’s grave at Orchardleigh. She gave birth to their son, Gerald Duckworth, six weeks later at the age of twenty-four. She went from being restrained and undemonstrative to no longer being ‘inclined to optimism’, taking on a ‘melancholy view of life’. She would describe her loss using one simple word: ‘shipwreck’. ‘The world was clothed in drab, shrouded in a crape-veil’. [3] Julia Stephen and Gerald Duckworth, by Oscar Rejlander, c. 1871. Leslie Stephen’s Photograph Album, plate 34. Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. The fact that Julia was a young mother would help sustain her. Herbert’s resulting loss left Julia with a lifelong need to help those suffering pain, illness, and loss of any kind. She adopted a stoicism that only those in her inner circle would observe and comment on. She rejected Christianity and began reading articles by a man named Leslie Stephen about agnosticism, which brought her much comfort. Leslie was married to Minny Thackeray, the daughter of novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, and Julia developed a strong lifelong friendship with Minny’s sister Anny Thackeray. Harriet Marian (“Minny”) Thackeray Stephen and Leslie Stephen, 1867. Leslie Stephen’s Photograph Album, plate 35d. Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. According to Leslie’s letters, it was Julia’s remote and reserved approach that he first noticed about her. She met his practical and emotional needs. Caring for Leslie fulfilled her nursing vocation as well as a need for safety, companionship and appreciation. He later described a winter’s evening when he and Minny were sitting at home ‘in perfect happiness’. Julia looked in and found them ‘so happy together that she thought the presence of a desolate widow incongruous, and left us to return to her own solitary hearth’. [4] It should not be surprising that Julia was visiting the Stephen family, since she was a friend of the Thackerays, going back to her days at Little Holland House. It was Julia who helped Anny keep her manuscripts in order and did copying work for her.
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