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“To Serve and Bless”

This chapter reviews epigraphs taken from letters written about a year apart that provide evidence for Virginia Stephen's first foray into political advocacy. It looks at Stephen's short-lived involvement with the People's Suffrage Federation (PSF), which was inaugurated sometime in 1909 and housed at 34 Mecklenburgh Square. It also refers to Virginia Woolf's stance that supports Hermione Lee's claim that she was ambivalent all her life about women philanthropists. The chapter talks about Clara Jones who argues that Woolf remained ambivalent about the value of her own political and social action throughout her career. It demonstrates how Woolf intensified her hostility to what she perceived as the politics of philanthropy among her late-Victorian foremothers.