In October 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two lectures in Cambridge which later became “A Room of One’s Own.” In the essay, she writes about wandering into the university library and being immediately stopped by “a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.” Continue reading
What was it like to be a woman in the philosophy department in the 1920s? Probably not very different from being a woman in any academic environment at that time. Continue reading
I had no idea that collecting old philosophy journals could be such a pleasure. But ever since I started spending more time in the archives, looking at letters and other pieces of paper from the past, having that tangible connection to the people who wrote them and on them became a little more special. This is why last year I started to buy any publications of Janina Hosiasson that I could get my hands on. Continue reading
Marta Sznajder 