Poster from the People’s Museum, Manchester.
Category: Women’s History
’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
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’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
‘I would advise no woman to give up anything she has managed to win. I would advise every woman to work as she can, and gain what she can, and keep it. No woman should be made to surrender her…
’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
…we did not like to declare ourselves women, because…we had a vague impression that authoresses were liable to be looked on with prejudice… Photo from the Bronte Exhibition, Haworth.
’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
‘I write only for Fame’, Jane Austen, 1796. ‘No accumulation of fame would have induced her, had she lived, to affix her name to any production of her per […] In public she turned away from any allusion to…
History News Network Q&A FOR “A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE”
The following interview has been made available to the WHN by Joe Starita and his publisher, St Martin’s Press, New York. It was prepared initially for the History News Network. WHN Admin. Susan La Flesche is a…
EDITH MORLEY: THE FIRST FEMALE PROFESSOR IN BRITAIN
Edith Morley: the first female professor in Britain Edith Morley’s 1944 memoir, Before and After, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university. This absorbing story, now published in book…
Stand We At Last
Stand We At Last Zoe Fairbairns The following excerpts are published with the permission of Zoe Fairbairns. They provide an insight into the two sisters’ different approach to life. In particular, their expectations of men, marriage and spinsterhood and their…
How Biblical Double Standards Killed Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Run
How biblical double standards killed Hillary Clinton’s presidential run November 11, 2016 8.54pm AEDT Jo Henderson-Merrygold Jo Henderson-Merrygold PhD Candidate in Biblical Studies and Queer Theory, University of Sheffield Disclosure statement Jo Henderson-Merrygold receives…