Reminiscences of a student's life / Jane Ellen Harrison.

  • Jane Ellen Harrison
Date:
1925
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Credit: Reminiscences of a student's life / Jane Ellen Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has given me a bad habit of attending closely to any nonsense I may happen to hear at a meeting or a lecture. I see my happier friends sleeping and yawning or nudging each other; my attention is glued to the speaker. Every Sunday I learnt the Collect for the day and either the Epistle or the Gospel. My favourite Collect was that for Advent Sunday, and it still thrills me, but I cannot have had any real taste for literature as some of the hymns that delighted me most were abominable doggerel. My favourite moral-song ran as follows: How proud we are, how pleased to show Our clothes and call them rich and new, When the poor sheep and silkworm wore That very clothing long before! Partly, no doubt, it was that in my childish mind I had a pleasant picture of an old sheep suitably attired in a Victorian bonnet with strings and a shawl, but chiefly it pleased me because it expressed my innate and still in¬ veterate dislike of, and contempt for, every¬ thing chic and smart. Perhaps it is some complex caused by my own childish sufferings in my “ Sunday clothes ”, though heaven knows they were plain enough. Anyhow, even now when I see a faultlessly turned out man or woman I always expect he or she
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