Vanessa Smith Professor of English, University of Sydney Jane Eyre has been retold over and over again, but remains eternally relevant. Jane Eyre (2011), Focus Features What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Brontë’s…
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Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop Glasgow Women’s Library, September 8, 2016 (Abstracts by July 8) Women made many valuable contributions to education in the long 18th century including, working as teachers,…
The Creation of Radclyffe Hall
Gill Rossini In July 1928, author Radclyffe Hall published her now iconic novel The Well of Loneliness. It was a brave, some said foolhardy attempt to sway public opinion in favour of a sympathetic attitude towards homosexuality in Britain and…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Admin. Shelley Emling, a senior editor at The Huffington Post, has provided the following questions and responses that highlight some of the issues associated with her biography of Catherine of Siena. Catherine went years without eating scarcely anything. Today, many would say she…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Admin. Part 2 of Setting the World on Fire provides a brief insight into Catherine’s spiritual initiation, unfortunately the material which puts this into the context of the spiritual history of the time and the Catholic church has had to…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Administration The title and following quotes and excerpts from Chapter 2 (to be published as Part 2) are from Setting the World on Fire The brief astonishing life of Catherine of Siena by Shelley Embling. Part 1…
Abstracts: Papers to be Presented at the WHN Conference 2016
WHN Admin. The following presenters have been generous in providing the abstracts of the papers that they will present at the conference: Dr Pam Jarvis, Bernadette Cahill and Teresa Barnard. These abstracts appear below. Additional presenters are being approached…
The Rise of the Jujitsu-Suffragettes
The Rise of the ‘Jujitsu-Suffragettes’ Martial Arts in fin-de-siècle Great Britain The Bagri Foundation presents a lecture by Dr Emelyne Godfrey which will explore the blossoming of martial arts in Great Britain at the turn of the 20th century,…
The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding, and Social Development
WHN Admin. This paper is the edited version of The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding, and Social Development presented by Margaret Wilson at the National Labor Women’s Conference April 2002 in Canberra. This version omits the end of the…