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| Description | Feb 10, 31 Gayton Road, Fry talks about a child she may adopt/foster; looking after a friend, Mrs Borenius, who had been operated on but whose husband could not look after her as he was organising a protest regarding a 'bar against the violation of the Finnish judges' independence indeed almost existence.
Feb 18 had the editor of the Zeminder, the largest Indian 'Moslem' [Muslim] paper, to dinner.
Feb 22 Fry talks about the departure of Mrs Borenius, and her difficulty with Borenius' 'impregnable attitude of silence to the servants' and how she hates people who 'cannot bridge distances of that kind'.
Mar 2 discusses views on religion and difficulties with the idea of responsibility with regards to religion.
Mar 10 talks about the child she has adopted/fostered and the difficulties encountered.
Mar 13 conversation with Dr Redcliffe Salamon, a Bateson worker at Cambridge.
Mar 18 talks about the 'dream world' of Hampstead
Mar 19 discussed planned revolutions in Finland with the Borenius'. Mazlinowski joined them.
Mar 21 talks about 'the little boy, Eustace' and her maternal feelings towards him.
Mar 25 mentions Cicely Leveson-Gower; Djavid Bey.
Mar 29 Leonard Hobhouse re. tutoring of girls; talked to Mrs Dryhurst who was attempting to form a committee, regarding allegations made by the 'Bulgars', for an agreement over the treatment of women and children in war; mentions her dissatisfaction in her teaching despite praise from others.
Mar 30 Selim Sirry Bey, a Turkish political activist of some kind who Fry describes as being 'truly enlightened about women'.
Apr 1 'went to town to buy a hat', some of the entry is in French.
April 11 back from Mrs Jukes where Fry spoke at a bazaar of Lady Young's for war victims where she encountered Noel Buxton; discusses family issues she returned to.
Ap 13 talks about housework/nursing sick children/staff and her determination to 'meet life full face'; engagement tomorrow to meet the Macedonain committee.
April 14 Met with three 'Orientals' who wish to retain Salonika as an independent city, 'a refuge for Turks and Jews', and asked Fry for advice. She is surprised at the difference in treatment she received compared to that which she imagined she would have received four years previously.
Ap 19 Dr Malinowski had stayed; Fry saw off Eustace (fostered child).
Ap 21 visit from the Borenius' discussing Finland and Russia; Fry had Clulow girls, ex students of hers, to visit; talks about reading an autobiography of a cottage woman and so learning about the 'tyranny suffered by little girls in a modern orphanage'.
May 7 talks about teaching, the people in her care/staying with her; received a present from her Aunt Susan and was very happy.
May 9th mentions another foster child coming to stay.
May 25 talks about visiting Parliament Hill and view from it.
May 26 the Vaughn Nashes, Augusta Sewell, Geo Waller, Malinowski, Nevinson , and Ruth to dinner. There was discussion over August's models for housing schemes; the re-arrest of Mrs Pankhurst and how it probably meant her death. Fry talks about how she heard the press are leagued to suppress what the Sufragettes actually say, and that Mrs Pankhurst had refused to be tried unless it was by her peers, meaning women. She had previously been brought to court but the Judge did not turn up, and it emerged that he had been found dead in a brothel. After being rebunked for her 'immoral' speech, Mrs Pankhurst pointed out that the immorality was not hers. None of this was reported in the press.
June 4 Fry writes about Judith leaving and how upset she is, here she also says 'I suppose the unfeminine woman is usually beset with female lovers. It is a trying position, & with so little satisfaction in it.'; lunched with Hakki Pasha, discussed Finnish revolutionary matters.
June 22 discusses a friend who smuggled some anarchists.
June 28 motor trip.
Diary continues to 13 October and discusses various activities, religion, philosophy, teaching, family, trip to the Lake District. |