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British women and Latin American independence movements 1800-1825

Lyndsey Jenkins / May 15, 2023

It is well-known that Mary Wollstonecraft travelled to Paris to witness the French Revolution that she had celebrated in A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Less well-known are British women who supported Latin American revolutionaries fighting for liberation from…

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Biography’s place in the study of sixteenth century Ottoman imperial women – Zhara Adal

Lyndsey Jenkins / April 24, 2023

The individual lives of sixteenth century imperial women are neglected in Ottoman studies. Scholars have usually focused on their notable achievements rather than their individual lives and identities. For example, Leslie Pierce’s The Imperial Harem (1993) describes the position of…

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The Politics of Tallulah Bankhead – Ashley Steenson

Lyndsey Jenkins / January 18, 2023

American actress Tallulah Bankhead experienced a resurgence in popular culture after the release of Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood (2020) and Lee Daniels’ The U.S. vs. Billie Holiday (2021). Both Paget Brewster’s portrayal of Tallulah in Hollywood and Natasha Lyonne’s portrayal in…

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Hannah Brutton and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 – by Charlotte Fairlie

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 28, 2022

While the limitations and inequalities of the 1857 Divorce and Marital Causes Act have led to debate over its significance, the case of Brutton v. Brutton illustrates how it empowered ordinary women to escape unhappy and dangerous situations.[i] Certainly, factors…

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Scent and Sensitivity: Writing Women from their Archives – Victoria Phillips

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 7, 2022

So, is this a key distinction as we go through the archives of women: we sense their smell, their perfume, or not, as we open folders? And what will it tell us as biographers and historians if we can, or…

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Fashioning the Self: Jennie Jerome, a twentieth century Victorian in the Library – Laura A. Macaluso

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 1, 2022

In 1940, a high school class took lessons at the New Haven Free Public Library. The library, open since 1887—the year Jennie Jerome’s parents were married, and her father, Yan Phou Lee published When I Was a Boy in China—drew…

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Biography, Black History, Blog, Blog and News, Featured Posts

‘I have always been one of the boys’: Hilda Ramushu and the railways in Zimbabwe, 1970s-1980s – Nicole Sithole

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 17, 2022

Railways and railway infrastructure are in many ways gendered. The way the train and other public and private spaces of the railways are ordered and used reflect not only cultural, societal, and even political norms, values, and practices, but are…

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Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter – by Isabella Smith

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 19, 2022

In September 1938, the Austrian potter Lucie Rie arrived in a London soon to be ravaged by German bombings. She was fleeing a country that had become unsafe for Jewish people like herself dramatically fast. Only a short time prior, she…

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The Life and Legacy of Emma Soyer (1809-1842) – Gabriella Ramsden

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 5, 2022

In Kensal Green cemetery there is a monument with the inscription of ‘TO HER’ written on it and ‘her’ initials (ES) at its base. If you were to come upon it by chance you would wonder who was this person…

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