Tag: 19th century
Glenda Norquay explores how Scottish novelist Annie S. Swan was viewed by many as a dangerous woman by writing sentimental fiction that evoked a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
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In our 6th post from Scottish PEN, Margaret Elphingstone explores ideas of safety and danger in the life and work of Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant.
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Powerful then, dangerous now?
What makes a woman dangerous 1000 years after her death? Marianne Moen takes a feminist approach to the archaeology of the Viking Age.
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Letitia Youmans and the Temperance Movement in Canada
In 19th century Canada, the liquor trade’s greatest enemy turned out to be a very dangerous woman who unexpectedly found herself leading the campaign to control it.
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The Bradford Female Educational Institute
JY Saville tells of the Bradford Female Educational Institute, an exception at a time in history when working class women’s education was a dangerous idea.
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Dangerous woman?
Was Millicent Garrett Fawcett a dangerous woman? Certainly not, but her refusal to be thwarted and her sheer determination made her seem very dangerous indeed.
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From Moll Flanders to Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Nicola Lacey draws links between representations of women in literature and their real life treatment under the laws of the 18th century and beyond.
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Queen Mother of the Ashanti Confederacy
Strategic leader of the Ashanti Confederacy army in the fifth Anglo-Ashanti War, Yaa Asantewaa cemented her place in history as a dangerous woman.
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Lady Franklin and Kate Rae had a lot in common: both had husbands who went exploring in the Arctic. But that may have been where the similarities ended…
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