ISBN:
9781350151659
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9781350150089
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9781350150058
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9781350150065
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1350150061
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1350150053
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9781350150072
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4209
Keywords:
Man-woman relationships History
;
Sex discrimination against women History
;
Authorship Colloboration
;
History
;
Research teams History
;
Literary studies: general
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Epilogue Bibliography Index.
Abstract:
Notes on Contributors List of Figures -- Introduction 1 -- Part I: Secretaries and Editors 2 -- M.E. Fitzgerald: Office Manager to Modernism, Catherine Hollis 3 -- The Secretary and Her Professor: Alli Hytti and L. A. Puntila, Anu Lahtinen 4 -- Jumped-up Typists: Two Guardians of the Flame, Karen Christensen 5 -- Thanks for Penguin: Women, Invisible Labour, and Publishing in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Rebecca E. Lyons -- Part II: Politicians and Activists 6 -- Backing the Family: Servilia Between the Murder of Caesar and the Battle of Philippi, Susan Treggiari 7 -- A Flaming Soul: Maissi Erkko Fighting for Women, Finland and Family Legacy, Reetta Hanninen 8 -- Student, Diplomat, Wife, traveller ? A Transnational Life of Marie Sargant-Cern, Hana Navratilova 9 -- Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Legacy of Kim Hak-soon (1924-1997), Woohee Kim -- Part III: Artists and Painters 10. Jeanne de Montbaston: An Illuminating Woman, Melek Karatas 11. Judith Leyster: The Artist Vanishes, Irene Kukota 12. Textiles Rubbing Us the Wrong Way: A Tour of Karin Bergöö Larsson's Acts of Fibre Resistance, Godelinde Gertrude Perk 13. Canvases in the Attic: Four Generations of the Lane Poole women, Juliana Dresvina -- Part IV: Mothers and Others 14. Haunting Augustine: St Monnica as Mother and Interlocutor, Patricia L. Grosse 15. ?The Typist Home at Teatime?: Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot's Role in Shaping T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), Arwa F. Al-Mubaddel 16. Edith Tolkien in the Eye of the Beholder, Maria Artamonova 17. ?Why Aren't There More Women in Your Books?? Ann and William Golding, Nicola Presley 18. ?You'll Say that Mum is at the Bottom of All This?: the Untold Story of Eva Larkin, Philip Pullen -- Part V: Poets and Writers 19. ?Murder, He Wrote?: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Julia Bolton Holloway 20. Golden Myfanwy: The Domestic Goddess Who Turned the Screw, Eleanor Knight 21. Double Act: U.A. Fanthorpe and R.V. Bailey, Partners in Rhyme, Elizabeth Sandie.
Abstract:
"As the #ThanksforTyping movement has shown, anonymous women working to support the work of their male relations and colleagues has been, and often still is, a universal phenomenon. These essays show just how long intelligent and determined women have been side-lined, ignored or forgotten throughout history. From the mother of the poet Philip Larkin to the wife of Ghana's first president, this book uncovers the uncredited contributions of wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350151659
URL:
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