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25th May 2022 WHN Seminar: Medieval Women’s History

Erin Newman / May 17, 2022

25th May 2022 with Genevieve Caulfield and Dr Katherine Weikert, a duet focusing on Medieval Women’s History Join us for this duet focusing on the Medieval in our Summer Series, featuring PhD Candidate Genevieve Caulfield, with the paper titled: ‘”Styles…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict

Dr Robin Joyce / June 25, 2017

Part 1 This excerpt from the introduction of Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture Conformity Contradiction and Conflict has been heavily edited to meet, as far as possible,  blog word count requirements. While the interconnecting pieces remain, description of…

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Blog, Event, Women's History

ORLANDO: WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES

Dr Robin Joyce / March 2, 2017

  NOTICE   Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present” will again be free during March, Women’s History Month, at orlando.cambridge.org/. Username womenshistory17 Pword orlando17 Since last March we have added 2 new entries,…

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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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Blog, Politics, Women's History

After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, our view of black female writers is transformed

Dr Robin Joyce / October 2, 2016

This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Conversation’s generosity in allowing republication is appreciated. WHN Admin. After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, our view of black female writers is transformed May 26, 2016 11.22am AEST Victorian-era, middle-class black…

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Blog, Politics

STANSFIELD GRANGE. HOME TO THE ‘TRIANGLE MILL SISTERS’

Dr Robin Joyce / September 4, 2016

 Ruth Beazley Stansfield Grange. Home to the ‘Triangle Mill Sisters’ The ‘Triangle Mill Sisters’ exhibition was awarded the WHN Community prize in 2014 and as a follow up Ruth Beazley has written a book and created a web site both…

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Blog, Event

Abstracts: Papers to be presented at the 2016 WHN Conference

Dr Robin Joyce / June 26, 2016

  WHN Admin. The abstracts following, by Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint, provide a ‘taste’ of the papers that will be presented at the conference. Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint’s generosity in providing the abstracts for the blog is greatly appreciated.…

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Blog, Women's History

Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth

Dr Robin Joyce / June 12, 2016

  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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Biography, Blog, Women's History

The Creation of Radclyffe Hall

Dr Robin Joyce / June 5, 2016

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…

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