vintageindianclothing: Being the first and only woman law student at Oxford, Cornelia Sorabji found

vintageindianclothing: Being the first and only woman law student at Oxford, Cornelia Sorabji found the male dons patronizing. She wrote of one of them: ‘I wish he would treat me like a man and not make gallant speeches about my “intellect” and “quickness of perception”….He is frightfully apologetic, too, and wonders if he is not wasting my time when coaching me.’ She put up with his ‘eccentricities in consideration of his mental value’. Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: The Story of Indians in Britain 1700-1947. The painting featured in the post is from Sorabji’s Sun Babies [studies in the child-life of India] is of the “wives and mothers of the Parsi priesthood weaving the sacred thread” sketched for Sorabji by a friend. Cornelia Sorabji: 15 November 1866 - 6 July 1954. -- source link

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