Mary Whitall Worthington diary, volume 12

Bryn Mawr College

Mary Whitall Worthington's diary from around the time of her senior year at Bryn Mawr College, 1909-1910. The diary begins with a description of Miss Worthington's summer vacation in which she goes first to Baltimore to visit with family and friends, and then to New York before sailing to Europe on board the RMS Lusitania. In England she attends a number of parties and social engagements and makes new friends. She goes to the World's Student Christian Federation Meeting in Oxford and is moved by the religious devotion she witnesses. Miss Worthington is particularly interested in the suffrage movement, and while in England she has tea with Inez and Vida Milholland. They attend a "suffragette raid" on the House of Commons together, and Miss Worthington gives a detailed description of the demonstration and includes newspaper clippings with her own thoughts. Later in the year, when Emmeline Pankhurst gives a lecture at the Merion Cricket Club and tours Bryn Mawr, Miss Worthington is able to speak with her about the movement and privately marvel that she dressed in purple, white, and green -- suffragette colors. This diary is filled with Miss Worthington's high praise of her friends, descriptions of hockey games, club lectures, play and glee club rehearsals, and traditions such as rush night, Lantern Night, May Day (for which she was elected the May Queen), and bonfire night. Throughout her diary, Miss Worthington talks about her relatives, in particular her aunt, M. Carey Thomas. She also includes programs from events, exam questions, drawings and photographs, and letters from family members. Miss Worthington also includes an index of topics she discusses at the back of the diary.

Mary Whitall Worthington diaries

Worthington, Mary Whitall

Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

Milholland, Inez

Milholland, Vida

Female friendship

National American Woman Suffrage Association

World's Student Christian Federation

Theater

Suffragists

Women -- suffrage

Vacations

Voyages and travels

Field hockey

Home and Family

Personal Relationships

Political and Social Activism

Religion and Spirituality

Student Life

Worthington, Mary Whitall

1909-1910

Bryn Mawr

Baltimore

New York

Oxford

London

Philadelphia

Diaries

Bound volume, approximately 10 x 11.5 inches

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