by Caroline Magennis 'the body is his book' Mina Loy, ‘Parturition’ In December 1999, the Co. Derry novelist Antonia Logue published the novel Shadow-Box. The novel was subject to a bidding war which ended with Bloomsbury paying a £66,000 advance after only seeing the first six pages of the novel. It won the Irish Times…
by Louise Pennington Mumsnet – we’ve all heard the name. It pops up frequently in the press as either an object of derision as that place full middle class Yummy Mummies who once harassed Gordon Brown about his favourite biscuit brand during a political webchat[1] or that “nest of vipers”[2] who viciously bully any woman…
By Bridget Lockyer As the new history curriculum comes into effect this September, now is the time to rethink how women’s history is taught ‘They’re not on it because they didn’t do anything important’ was the response of one student when discussing why so few women were represented on their school curriculum. This student was…
by Jad Adams For the first time in the world, in 1869, a legislature gave women equal rights as citizens. It was in the territory of Wyoming in the western US and is today commemorated by a giant statue of Esther Hobart Morris in front of the state capitol building in Cheyenne. Morris is the…
by Meytal Radzinski This essay was originally posted here Over the years I've been involved in literary review, I've said and written many different things about women writers, and particularly in recent months about women writers in translation. I've discussed possible differences in men and women's writing, a young adult literary culture that courts young…
by Sara Read Back when the study of early modern women’s writing was in its infancy, four academics near the start of their careers decided to produce an anthology of women’s writing to help make rare works more accessible and teachable. Elspeth Graham, Hilary Hinds, Elaine Hobby and Helen Wilcox all chose 3 women…
by Gemma Ahearne This was originally posted here Updated to add Grand National stereotype fight back after unfair headlines mentioning Plasticdollheads I was happy when I saw this Scouse Bird Versus the Daily Mail because it at least starts to address how the Daily Mail and other right wing press frame the women who attend.Scouse Bird gives a…
In this post, sixth-form student Katherine Holmes shares her thoughts on the Moving Beyond Boundaries project and women’s history. For more details of the Teaching Women's History Project please visit here The women’s history project during our Personal Development Programme every week has been absolutely brilliant in opening our eyes to such a significant (but mainly unspoken)…
by Jessica Sage In a marketing move that will no doubt be up for discussion at the next departmental meeting, Penguin launched a new Modern Classics cover on their Facebook page this week, asking readers to guess which novel the cover was for. It was not, as some guessed, for Lolita or Valley of the…
by Emma Butcher Mary Hays (1760-1843) secures her place in history as one of the radical disciples of Mary Wollstonecraft. Although acknowledged alongside the likes of Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Incbald and Charlotte Turner Smith as an important female revolutionary of the eighteenth century, she is often eclipsed by Wollstonecraft, with her famous family and…
