Tag: 19th century
Scottish Women Compositors in the Late Nineteenth Century
‘What we do know for sure about the Scottish women typographers of this period is that men saw them as dangerous…’ Robyn Pritzker looks back to the 1800s.
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‘A dangerous woman gone mad’
Ashley Orr recounts the career of Nellie Bly, 19th century “stunt journalist” who wrote of “women whose stories might otherwise have remained invisible”.
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Nan Shepherd and Jane Austen compare notes in a Twitter chat
Both recently commemorated on currency, what would a Twitter DM session between Nan Shepherd and Jane Austen have looked like?
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The shocking life of Harriette Wilson
Harriette Wilson: “who captivated, charmed & dazzled her way to the heart of fashionable society, only to shock, anger & terrify her way straight back out.”
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Fanny van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.
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A research team in Australia has been uncovering the hidden histories of pioneer women lawyers, and have mounted an online exhibition.
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Daisy Bates: “acquainted with 115 languages of Australia” and… a liar. Lauren Gawne examines a dangerous figure in Australian language study.
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Dangerous Women and the Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylum
Cara Dobbing examines the difference between mental illness and being perceived a dangerous woman in a nineteenth century lunatic asylum.
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Nation of brothers with late arriving sisters
Did you know women in Switzerland were only granted the vote in 1971? Before that, women’s suffrage was considered a dangerous idea, as Stefanie Kurt explains.
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