Denis Blight In 1901 a young parlour maid, Janet Loaring, stepped on Board the S.S. Perthshire to travel to Australia from Dorset in the United Kingdom with 43 other young, single women, escorted by a matron. In the Upstairs/Downstairs…
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Celebrating a landmark edition: Francoise de Graffigny’s letters
The following is reproduced from the Voltaire Foundation (University of Oxford) site with the permission of Pippa Faucheux. It follows the completion of a 40-year project publish the critical edition of Mme de Graffigny’s correspondence which was completed in 2016. …
A Warrior of the People
A Warrior of the People (2016) St Martin’s Press New York. Joe Starita Although a dedicated kindle reader, I picked up this biography and immediately felt the pleasure of holding a well published book. This one is comfortable to…
Women’s Workwear Styles: surviving the Past 100 Years
Thank you to Carolyn Greenwood from Aspinall London provided the following text and media. Women’s Workwear Styles: Surviving the Past 100 Years From the androgynous waistlines of the twenties all the way up to Ally McBeal’s microminis, the history…
Winner Announced: WHN £1,000 Small Grant Award 2017
Strong applications for the above were received, the first year of the operation of the scheme. After much discussion and consideration the judges decided to give the award to a group of Postgraduate Students at Hull University, namely Stormm Buxton-Hill,…
Shadow of a Century
Jean Grainger Shadow of a Century (2015) Scarlett O’Hara, named by her romantic mother, after the Gone With The Wind character, is a journalist. Through her own romantic involvement that leads to her downfall (and the novel’s exposure of…
Rachel Heyhoe-Flint blazed a trail for women’s cricket, but change comes slowly to the ‘gentleman’s game’
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint blazed a trail for women’s cricket, but change comes slowly to the ‘gentleman’s game’ January 21, 2017 7.23pm AEDT Alun Hardman Author Alun Hardman Senior Lecturer in Sports Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University Disclosure statement Alun Hardman does not work…
From battered wife to major writer: Madame de Graffigny and her tell-all Correspondance
From battered wife to major writer: Madame de Graffigny and her tell-all Correspondance Posted on 6 March 2015 by voltairefoundation For International Women’s Day on 8 March we want to celebrate Madame de Graffigny, an exceptional eighteenth-century woman who overcame…