Dorothy Burr Thompson diary, volume 14

Bryn Mawr College

Diary of Dorothy Burr (later Burr Thompson), Bryn Mawr College Class of 1923, from her sophomore through her junior year at Bryn Mawr (August 1920-April 1922). In it she records her impressions of and interactions with friends, classmates, and teachers. She discusses books and authors she is reading (Wilde, Hedda Gabler, Moliere, the Iliad, the Odyssey) while rarely making the distinction between classwork and books she reads for pleasure. She writes of trips into Philadelphia to see the ballet, the opera, concerts, and other performances and of dramatic performances at Bryn Mawr. She also discusses her struggle to settle on a course of study, her concerns about being at the top of her class, and her anxieties about developing and maintaining friendships. These diary entries are entirely self-aware and Dorothy Burr Thompson often writes about the act of writing in the diary.

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Class of 1923

Thompson, Dorothy Burr, 1900-2001

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Thompson, Dorothy Burr, 1900-2001

1920-1922

Bryn Mawr

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