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Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / January 2, 2017

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

‘!2 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / January 1, 2017

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 31, 2016
Biography, Blog, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 30, 2016

Mary’s letter spoke of some of the pictures and cathedrals she had seen…I hardly know what swelled in my throat as I read her letter – such a vehement impatience of restraint and steady work. Such a strong wish for…

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Blog, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 29, 2016

    Poster from the People’s Museum, Manchester.              

Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 29, 2016

Source: Bing Photos

Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 27, 2016

‘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…

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Blog, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 26, 2016

…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.

Blog, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 25, 2016

‘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…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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