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…
Tag: women’s writing
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…
JANE AUSTEN: WAS SHE A TROUBLESOME WRITER?
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…
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.…
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…
Barbara Pym: Some Glimpses From Behind her Fiction
WHN Admin. Barbara Pym’s novels provide a social history of the period over which she wrote from the 1920s to 1980. [1] Quotes from Pym’s diaries, notebooks and letters provide the background to her fiction and reminders that she…
Gender neutral language…difficult even at the end of the best of pens?
WHN Admin. Admire her as one does, and as impressed by the ideas she expresses in fiction, and the beauty of her prose, this quote from Virginia Woolf is a reminder of the value of women’s fight to achieve…