Janet Elizabeth Case (1863–1937) was a British classical scholar, tutor of ancient Greek, and women's rights advocate.
[1] In 1884 Case co-founded Girton College's classical club; she was an active participant in Cambridge productions of ancient Greek drama, taking the role of Electra in a Girton college production of 1883, and Athena in Aeschylus' Eumenides in the Cambridge Greek Play of 1885.
[5] In her obituary in The Times, Virginia Woolf would later describe Case as "a noble Athena, breaking down the tradition that only men acted in the Greek play.
"[6] After leaving Cambridge, Case taught Classics from 1887 to 1896 at Maida Vale High School, as well as offering private tuition.
[1] Case also encouraged Virginia Woolf to become involved in the women's rights movement, writing to her in 1910 of the "wrongness of the present state of affairs.