Tag: marriage
Pioneering Nigerian administrator, academic and author
Co-written by Flora’s eldest daughter and niece, today’s post considers the life and accomplishments of this remarkable Nigerian woman.
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The case of Winnie Verloc
Susan Jones is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Here she explores Conrad’s treatment of Winnie Verloc from ‘The Secret Agent’–one of the writer’s most deadly protagonists.
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Their dangerous legacy in the post-Yugoslav space
The contribution of ‘partizanke’, or female partisan fighters, to the Yugoslav liberation war was unprecedented in occupied Europe. Here, Chiara Bonfiglioli explores the agency of these women and the reverberations of their actions to the present day.
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Subtle subversions of Victorian gender conventions
Laura Witz illustrates how one of Scotland’s most prolific writers, Margaret Oliphant, challenged 19th century society’s expectations of women via an unexpected route–the romance novel.
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One woman’s struggle to become legally divorced in India
Papia Sengupta spent five years seeking a divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act of India. Here, she shares the legal and social challenges she faced along her journey.
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‘Lucretia Borgia or only a boarding school miss’?
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
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Is it a dangerous idea? Undermining tradition? Threatening romantic love?
Joni Meenagh researches young people’s negotiation of their romantic and sexual relationships in the context of new media environments. Here, she challenges the notion of marital status as society’s most privileged category of interpersonal relationships.
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