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Biography, Blog, Politics, Women's History

EDITH MORLEY: THE FIRST FEMALE PROFESSOR IN BRITAIN

Dr Robin Joyce / December 11, 2016

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…

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