Andrew Grant-Adamson Ann Jones was a remarkable 19th century woman. But no-one will have heard of her. Born in Ireland, the daughter of a regimental tailor, she was deserted by her wastrel first husband, built a successful business, went…
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Barbara Pym: Some Glimpses From Behind her Fiction
WHN Admin. Barbara Pym’s novels provide a social history of the period over which she wrote from the 1920s to 1980. [1] Quotes from Pym’s diaries, notebooks and letters provide the background to her fiction and reminders that she…
Western Australian Labor Woman, Jean Beadle promotes her options for dealing with venereal disease 1915
A Letter to the Editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner 1915[1] Jean Beadle [2] ‘Notwithstanding the fact that the First Labor Women’s Conference, held in 1912, carried a resolution favouring notification and segregation of persons suffering from venereal disease, I…
Gender neutral language…difficult even at the end of the best of pens?
WHN Admin. Admire her as one does, and as impressed by the ideas she expresses in fiction, and the beauty of her prose, this quote from Virginia Woolf is a reminder of the value of women’s fight to achieve…
This is where it all could have begun – but did it? Women and The Magna Carta A Treaty for Control or Freedom?
Jocelynne Scutt Part 2 Chapter 1 … Are Women Persons? … We have … granted to all freemen of our kingdom, for us and our heirs forever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their…
This is where it could have begun – but did it? Women and The Magna Carta A Treaty For Control or Freedom
Jocelynne A. Scutt Excerpts from the Introduction and Chapter 1 Women and The Magna Carta : A Treaty for Control or Freedom Part 1 Magna Carta Initiated Magna Carta is generally seen as a statement…
Ethical Fiction: Essential? Desirable?
Robin Joyce Part 2 Is ethical fiction ever irrelevant? While an initial response could be ‘Of course fiction should be ethical. Writers should not encourage racism, sexism or classism. They should not give credibility to unethical behavior.’ However, what…
Ethical Fiction: Essential? Desirable? Irrelevant?
‘We often need literature to make our feelings intelligible to us.’ Joanna Trollope, The Rector’s Wife Robin Joyce Part 1 The strong response to a readers’ blog asking for examples of ethical fiction, (1) a list of topics under…
Are Women a Success in Parliament?
WHN Admin. Published in 1938 in the Westralian Worker May Holman’s commentary on women Members of Parliament makes interesting reading. May Holman was the first Labor woman to be elected to the Western Australian Parliament. She was a Member…