William's Path
The type of school William attended, where he may have learned Latin
What is grammar school?
The name Woolf gives Shakespeare's imaginary sister
Who is Judith?
The thing Judith used to let herself down from the house one summer night
What is a rope?
The author of "Shakespeare's Sister"
Who is Virginia Woolf?
Poached means this
What is hunted illegally?
Young Shakespeare, "a wild boy," poached these animals
What are rabbits?
Instead of reading, her parents told her to mend these or mind the stew
What are stockings?
The age Judith had not yet reached when she took the road to London
What is seventeen?
The longer essay this excerpt comes from, published in 1929
What is A Room of One's Own?
Taste, as in "a taste for the theater"
What is a liking or preference?
His first theater job was holding these at the stage door
What are horses?
To keep her writing secret, Judith hid her pages or did this to them
What is burn them (set fire to them)?
Judith said she wanted to do this at the theater, and men laughed in her face
What is act?
This person wrote to a newspaper saying no woman could have the genius of Shakespeare
Who is a bishop?
Wits, as in "exercising his wits in the streets"
What is intelligence or quick thinking?
Marrying early, with a child born "rather quicker than was right," sent him to this city
What is London?
Judith was to be betrothed to the son of this kind of tradesman
What is a wool-stapler?
The manager compared women acting to these animals dancing
What are poodles?
Woolf agrees with the bishop that it would have been impossible for any woman of Shakespeare's age to do this
What is write the plays of Shakespeare?
Fancy, as in "the quickest fancy"
What is imagination?
Name two of the three Latin poets he may have studied at school
Who are Ovid, Virgil, and Horace?
The actor-manager who "took pity" on Judith
Who is Nick Greene?
Judith lies buried at a crossroads outside this place, where omnibuses now stop
What is the Elephant and Castle?
Judith had the same genius as William. Woolf suggests this is why she failed
What is a lack of opportunity (no schooling, no training, and society's limits on women)?
Agog, as in "as agog to see the world"
What is eager or excited?