Tag: History
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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Michelle Collins’ short story looks at a dark period of local history in a Melbourne suburb, to a time when a woman committed serial infanticide.
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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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Jonatha Kottler reflects on encountering, at different stages of life, the figure of Guinevere in popular culture.
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Lucy Flannery writes of one of the bravest, strongest and toughest women of the twelfth century – the Empress Matilda, Lady of the English.
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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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Ildiko Nova gives an artistic response to the project question, focusing on the perception of Roma women in Europe and beyond.
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Semiotic power of Her story
Ana Pavlić looks at the writing and activism of Marija Jurić Zagorka, who worked against the politics of her time to expose and improve the status of women.
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(13 March 1890 – 22 May 1970)
In our monthly post from Scottish PEN, Margery Palmer McCulloch shows how Willa Muir was “‘dangerous’ in the best creative and cultural sense of the word”.
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