Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life - Softcover

Morley, Edith

 
9781909747166: Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1909747165 ISBN 13: 9781909747166
Verlag: Two Rivers Press Ltd, 2016

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Intended to 'relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century', Edith Morley's 1944 memoir, Before and After, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university.

Born into a middle-class Victorian family, she hated being a girl, but a forward-thinking home life and a good education enabled her to overcome prejudices and become Professor of English Language at University College, Reading, in 1908. An early feminist with a strong social conscience, she 'fought... with courage... and passionate sincerity for human rights and freedom.'

Covering the vividly described setting of her late Victorian childhood, her student days with the increasing freedoms they brought, the early feminist movement, the growing pains of a new university and, much later, the traumas endured by refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, this absorbing memoir brings alive a very different era, one foundational to the freedoms we enjoy today.

'Every woman now working in British universities - or in any other profession for that matter - will recognise Edith Morley's story ... Quite simply, she took on the establishment, as feminists have done ever since.' From the Foreword by Professor Mary Beard

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Born in Bayswater in 1875, Edith Morley 'did hate being a girl', though she found the middle-class conventions of the day restrictive rather than repressive and benefited from a good education, thanks to her surgeon-dentist father and well-read mother. She obtained an 'equivalent' degree from Oxford University (the only type available to the few female students at the time) and was appointed Professor of English Language at University College, Reading, in 1908, becoming the first female professor in England. She is best known as the primary twentieth-century editor of Henry Crabb Robinson's writings (the author of a comprehensive biography) and for her Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of their Economic Conditions and Prospects (1914), published while she was a member of the Fabian Executive Committee. Before and After, written in 1944, a few years after leaving the post at Reading, was 'intended to relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century'. She was awarded an OBE in 1950 for her work in setting up the Reading Refugee Committee and assisting Belgian Jewish refugees in World War I. She died in 1964.

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Verlag
Two Rivers Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1909747165
ISBN 13 
9781909747166
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
218
Herausgeber
Morris Barbara
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