Robin Joyce Part 2 Austen was apparently trapped by conventional ideology. At the same time, she attempted to advance progressive ideas about women’s situation without appearing to recommend Wollstonecraft’s sexual irregularities and her suicide attempts. To write novels…
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JANE AUSTEN: WAS SHE A TROUBLESOME WRITER?
Robin Joyce Part 1 Jane Austen, was indeed, a troublesome writer. Troublesome for whom? Although the historical context in which she wrote has some relevance, Austen is often troublesome in a way that reflects feminist writing since the 1970s.…
Elizabeth Hope Doddrell
Denis Blight Elizabeth Hope Doddrell was born at sea in June 1849 near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. James Rogers Blight was three years old when he arrived in South Australia in the same year. Life in gold-rushed…
I ought to have died, but I don’t do the things that I ought, Mabel Stobart 1916.
Zvezdana Popovic has followed up her information about the exhibition and service held at St Sava Church to honour British women in medical missions in Serbia and on related fronts during the Great War. Popovic spoke about the suffragists and…
Gloria Steinem’s Birthday 25th March
WRITING is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else. Gloria Steinem Imagine we are linked not ranked. Gloria Steinem From Gloriasteinem.com
More Unfinished Business
Sue Neacy WHN Admin. In 1972 Australia voted in a Federal Election, winning enough seats to wrest government from the incumbents of twenty three years. Gough Whitlam, leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), became Prime Ministership. One of…
IFRWH Newsletter
The latest IFRWH (International Federation for Research into Women’s History) Newsletter is now available to download here: January 2016: IFRWH Newsletter Jan 2016
Unfinished Business and More Unfinished Business
Sue Neacy WHN Admin. Introduction to Sue Neacy: Unfinished Business and More Unfinished Business As a percentage of the population people at tertiary institutions in 2012 58% of the domestic students (as opposed to the large numbers of overseas students…
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK (UK) SMALL GRANTS SCHEME
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £500 for the holding of a one day conference on women’s history organised by teaching or research staff in universities or other institutions of higher education in the UK, or…