1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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English physician and prose writer (1605-1682) much admired by Woolf.
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See the Introduction (pp. xxiv-xxv) for more on Mary Datchet and women’s suffrage.
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Former standard-size writing paper; so-named for its watermark of a fool’s cap and bells.
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Former county in southwestern England, now part of Somerset.
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Indigenous London dialect, usually associated with the working class.
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Lying down, especially with the head up.
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Two matters much discussed by Radicals of the Liberal Party before World War I.
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Abbreviations of various societies with offices in the building. S.G.S. most likely stands for Society for General Suffrage.
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Charity Organization Society for social work, founded in 1869.
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Humorous and topical London weekly (1841-1992) that was notoriously hostile to women’s rights.
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Reference to the French romantic writers Andre Chenier (1762-1794), Victor Hugo (1802-1885), and Alfred de Musset (1810-1857).
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Long street running vertically through Bloomsbury.
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Extending from Fleet Street to the Thames, it consists of the Middle and Inner Temple, two of London’s four Inns of Court.
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English comic novelist (1707-1754), author of
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Small town in Suffolk.
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That is,
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Westminster Abbey is London’s most renowned place of worship and often the site of state weddings; Katharine’s grandfather is buried there, in Poets’ Corner (see footnote on page 31).
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Islands off the coast of northwestern Scotland.
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Pleated or gathered materials, such as flounces on women’s dresses.
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Empress Eugenie (1826-1920), the wife of Napoleon III, was a frequent visitor to London.
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London theater on the South Bank of the Thames where many of Shakespeare’s later plays were first performed; it was demolished in 1655.
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One of Great Britain’s permanent national art collections, located in London on the north side of Trafalgar Square.
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