tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post6500187563719310005..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: Bluestockings: The Victorian Campaign for Female EducationDebra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-80137059413482289422015-12-05T13:34:27.016-08:002015-12-05T13:34:27.016-08:00Nice article about the bluestockings of the Victor...Nice article about the bluestockings of the Victorian era. These were early feminists of the suffragist movement. <br /><br />TamTam May, Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020318479119814457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-78316393259019089522015-12-05T02:09:19.442-08:002015-12-05T02:09:19.442-08:00Your graduation date is about ten years before min...Your graduation date is about ten years before mine, and made me think about the huge advances in attitudes that have taken place even in my lifetime. Few women did "serious" jobs in the 60s, while today it's not that unusual for a woman to be a family's main breadwinner. I wonder how historians will view the generations born after WWII in, say, 2080?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338002014574933192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-87852163659453469192015-12-04T07:17:37.842-08:002015-12-04T07:17:37.842-08:00Thank you...will investigate. I have had such fun ...Thank you...will investigate. I have had such fun with ''The Regent Street Ladies' Literary Group' (my invention). Just astonished to read some of the negative contemporary comments (many from women) about women's educative rights!Carol Hedgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359578624109905400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-22247918429929052872015-12-04T07:14:17.036-08:002015-12-04T07:14:17.036-08:00I was stunned to read about Bathua Makin...the cam...I was stunned to read about Bathua Makin...the campaign went so far back...Carol Hedgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359578624109905400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-73756056642282607912015-12-04T06:44:03.964-08:002015-12-04T06:44:03.964-08:00Molly Hughes (also known as M.V. Hughes) is a grea...Molly Hughes (also known as M.V. Hughes) is a great resource here; her "London" trilogy of books – A London Child of the 1870s, A London Girl of the 1880s, and A London Home of the 1890s – are filled with fascinating perspectives on precisely this issue. <br /><br />Molly was highly intelligent and got herself into North London Collegiate (rather against her family's wishes) before becoming a pioneer in teacher training, so she found herself at the heart of this debate. Moreover, her books are still really interesting, easy reading. An interesting sidelight: for all this, Molly herself bought pretty fully into the Victorian conception of women (or at least her mother's slightly eccentric take on it), willingly subordinating herself to her four brothers, and quitting her job as soon as she (belatedly) married.<br /><br />Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker, who developed something of an obsession with Molly, gives a good overview of her here:<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview28<br /><br />A second person well worth knowing about is Philippa Fawcett, the remarkable daughter of the suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett – who in 1890 became the first woman to come top in the maths tripos at the University of Cambridge, placing "above the Senior Wrangler". <br /><br />Since these exams were then regarded as the toughest intellectual challenge available to the brightest minds in the British empire, her achievement forced a reconsideration of many of the views that you set out here.<br /><br />Philippa's story is an inspiring and unusual one, which I wrote about in detail here:<br /><br />http://mikedashhistory.com/2011/10/31/above-the-senior-wrangler/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-35403738210373780402015-12-04T06:39:45.856-08:002015-12-04T06:39:45.856-08:00So true, the pioneering women in education opened ...So true, the pioneering women in education opened the door of equality just a tiny bit with their efforts.Lizanne Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10929383263680527758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-80781090707435571332015-12-04T06:04:56.006-08:002015-12-04T06:04:56.006-08:00Thank you ladies...we always think the quest for F...Thank you ladies...we always think the quest for Female equality was the perquisite of the Suffragettes....but is soo wasn't!Carol Hedgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359578624109905400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-10459190763356788212015-12-04T05:54:10.678-08:002015-12-04T05:54:10.678-08:00Great post, Carol! The Victorian era has a reputa...Great post, Carol! The Victorian era has a reputation for being a stifling era for women, but there was so much happening beneath the surface. Ladies were really starting to come into their own. And of course education was a huge part of it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09431865312184846272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-78609452674596576982015-12-04T02:41:09.060-08:002015-12-04T02:41:09.060-08:00Not only is this post most interesting, but I woul...Not only is this post most interesting, but I would encourage anyone reading it to try Carol's Victorian detective series ~ I've adored every one :)Terry Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077413235902203848noreply@blogger.com