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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Southern People. A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography
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Edited by Jane Thomson
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1998
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Private collection. Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz
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Books
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[Dunedin]: Longacre Press in association with the Dunedin City Council
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This biographical dictionary of those individuals who shaped the South had its beginnings with the publication of the <em>Dictionary of New Zealand Biography</em>, and effort from Drs Erik Olssen, Dorothy Page, and George Griffiths, Ian Church, and Jane Thomson (editor). Two women who had a quiet influence on Dunedin’s cultural life were <strong>Dora</strong> and <strong>Mary de Beer</strong>, sisters of Esmond. <strong>Dora</strong> (1891-1982) and <strong>Mary</strong> (1890-1981) never married, and for the most part lived in London, except for their travels overseas. Robyn Notman’s article gives greater detail on the lives and activities of these remarkable women
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume 4
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Edward Gibbon
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1778
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De Beer Ec 1776 G
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Books
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Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell
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<strong>Hypatia</strong> was born in Alexandria, Egypt, part of the Roman Empire, in around 370AD. She was a Neoplatonist and pagan, and taught mathematics and philosophy, mainly to Christian students. <strong>Hypatia</strong> wrote several commentaries on mathematical works during her career, one of which was an edited version of Claudius Ptolemy’s <em>Almagest</em>. Here, Gibbon’s <em>Decline and Fall</em> outlines <strong>Hypatia</strong>’s popularity, and how people ‘most illustrious for their rank or merit were impatient to visit the female philosopher’. Highly respected for her intellect, she acted as counsel to various politicos in Alexandria, something that would ultimately lead to her murder by an irate Christian mob. <strong>Hypatia</strong> was the ‘first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics.’
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Anarchism and Other Essays
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Emma Goldman
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1917
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Special Collection HX833 G65 1917
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Books
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New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association
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In 1885, <strong>Emma Goldman</strong> (1869-1940) emigrated to America, from Lithuania, to live with her sister near New York. Her anarchist views were cemented by reading Russian revolutionary, Peter Kropotkin, her experience of dire working conditions as a seamstress, and the Haymarket Riot in Chicago in 1886. <strong>Goldman</strong> was a great orator and travelled the United States lecturing on her beliefs. She was an anti-capitalist, an atheist, a feminist, and she thought violence carried out in the name of fighting for her chosen ideologies was just a means to an end. <strong>Goldman</strong> spent time in jail for her troubles, and finally in 1919, she was deported from America. J. Edgar Hoover called her one of the ‘most dangerous anarchists’ in the country. She spent her whole life agitating for change.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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My Own Story
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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1914
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Storage HQ1595 P34 A3 1914
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Books
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London: Eveleigh Nash
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<strong>Emmeline Pankhurst</strong> (1858-1928) grew up on a diet of activism. Both her parents were political animals. <strong>Pankhurst</strong> first began to notice disparities between the sexes, when she saw that her education was not considered as important as that of her brother. She attended her first Suffrage meeting with her mother aged 14, and so began her lifelong career as a political and social activist. A self-professed ‘hooligan’, <strong>Pankhurst</strong> was arrested many times, all in the name of gaining the vote for women in England. Here is <strong>Pankhurst</strong> with fellow Suffragettes, Christabel, her daughter, and Flora Drummond (1878-1949), at her ‘First Conspiracy Trial’. They look decidedly bored with proceedings.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Madame Curie
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Eve Curie. Translated by Vincent Sheean
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1938
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Medical Storage WZ100 C975
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Books
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London: William Heinemann
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Physicist <strong>Marie Curie</strong> (1867-1934) was born Marya Skoldowska in Poland. Initially educated in Warsaw, she attended the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1903, <strong>Curie</strong> won her first Nobel Prize (the first woman to do so), alongside her husband, Pierre, and a colleague, Henri Becquerel, for their researches into radiation. During her career, <strong>Curie</strong> also lectured at the Sorbonne; won another Nobel Prize – this time solo in 1911; and trained radiographers for WWI. She continued her studies into radium and radioactivity her whole life, all the while refusing to accept the dangers of radiation. This biography, written by her daughter Eve, paints <strong>Curie</strong> as a highly intelligent, selfless woman, who eschewed fame and fortune for the greater good. <strong>Curie</strong>, of course, died of radiation poisoning.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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This Side of Paradise
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1948
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Special Collections PS3511 T48 1948
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Book covers
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New York: Dell Publishing Company
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<strong>Zelda Fitzgeral</strong>d (1900-48) grew up in Alabama, where women were expected to be meek, mild, and decorous. She was nothing of the sort. <strong>Zelda</strong> met her future husband, Scott, in her late teens, and the married pair became celebrity New York drunks, the life of any party.<strong> Zelda</strong> was Scott’s muse, but from her diaries she unwittingly supplied Scott with material for his novels, like <em>This Side of Paradise</em>. At times, he uplifted whole lines of prose. <strong>Zelda</strong> found this out, and commented, in a review of one of her husband’s books, that ‘plagiarism begins at home’. However, <strong>Zelda</strong> was an author in her own right, and spent much of her life trying to come out from behind the shadow of her husband’s success. Largely unappreciated in her own time,<strong> Zelda</strong> became a feminist icon in the 1970s.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Camilla, or, A Picture of Youth
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Fanny Burney
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1796
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De Beer Eb 1796
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Books
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London: Printed for T. Payne, and T. Cadell Jun, and W. Davies
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Jane Austen’s name is printed in the subscription list to <strong>Fanny Burney</strong>’s <em>Camilla</em>, which was first published in 1796. Indeed, Austen made reference to <em>Burney</em>’s third novel – subtitled ‘A Picture of Youth’ – in <em>Northanger Abbey</em>: ‘ “And what are you reading, Miss — ?… It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.’ <strong>Burney</strong> (1752–1840) started ‘scribbling’ early, and over her writing career produced four novels, eight plays, one biography, and volumes of journals and letters. In Camilla, she targets her light and frothy satire on the marriage concerns of the young.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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Florence Nightingale
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1860
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Health Sciences Historical Collection WYA N687
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Books
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New York: D. Appleton and Co.
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The first battle, social reformer and nurse, <strong>Florence Nightingale</strong> (1820-1910) had to fight was against her family. She was born rich and privileged, and at the time, nursing was a profession for low class women. <strong>Nightingale</strong>’s family were determined to stop her, but luckily they were unable to. Her life-long achievements are too many to list here, but ‘in a nutshell’: <strong>Nightingale</strong> made nursing a recognised profession; she established the first training school for nurses; she used statistics to highlight deficiencies in healthcare and sanitation; she wrote over 200 books and articles; and she was instrumental in the reform of hospital best practice. <strong>Nightingale</strong>’s influences on healthcare continue to be felt today. This is <em>Notes on Nursing</em>, her most famous and influential book.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Historical Memoires on the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James
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Francis Osborne
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1658
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De Beer Eb 1658 O
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Books
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London: Printed by J. Grismond and are to be sold by T. Robinson
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<strong>Elizabeth I</strong> (1533-1603) was declared illegitimate after her father, King Henry VIII, had her mother, Anne Boleyn, executed in 1536. Despite this, and after the death of her half-brother and sister, <strong>Elizabeth</strong> became Queen of England in 1558. <strong>Elizabeth</strong> has been described as a ‘canny and utterly ruthless’ leader – she led England out of troubled times, and was a religiously tolerant monarch. <strong>Elizabeth</strong> never married, claiming in a speech to Parliament that she had married England and its people were her children. She gave her name to the Elizabethan Age, and ruled for 45 years. The literature on <strong>Elizabeth</strong>’s life and times is abundant. Here is Francis Osborne’s <em>Historical Memoires</em>, in which he describes her moderate and stable rule.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Seen in Hadhramaut
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Freya Stark
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1938
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Brasch DS247 H3 SS78
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Books
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London: J. Murray
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After learning Arabic and Persian, <strong>Freya Stark</strong> (1893-1993) travelled to remote ‘blank spots’ in and around Luristan (western Persia), and the Valley of the Assassins on the Caspian Coast. Her first book, <em>The Valley of the Assassins</em> (1934), earned her high praise. The Middle East captivated her, and <strong>Stark</strong> really did take up the mantle of traveller extraordinaire vacated by Gertrude Bell. <em>Seen in the Hadhramaut</em> was the result of two ground-breaking expeditions she undertook in unexplored areas of Arabia in 1935 and 1938. She travelled with little or no baggage, and was renowned for her attire: bold French designer dresses, including a compulsory silk one. Dame <strong>Freya Stark</strong> died in 1993, aged 100.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke
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Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke
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1633
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De Beer Eb 1633 G
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Books
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London: Printed by E.[lizabeth] P.[urslowe] for Henry Seyle
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When her husband George died in 1632, <strong>Elizabeth Purslowe</strong> took over the printing business. This was not an unusual step. Between 1550 and 1650, there were some 130 women in the print trade, and a number took over from their husbands when they died. Other female printers included ‘Widow Sayle’, ‘Widow of J. Blageart’, Alice Norton, and Hannah Allen. Active in London between 1633 and 1646, <strong>Elizabeth Purslowe</strong> printed 146 texts. Many were outstanding productions like this Fulke Greville edition, which was one of her firsts. Apart from being known as a female printer, <strong>Purslowe</strong> has the distinction of a slouchy hat named after her: the ‘<strong>Purslowe</strong>’ hat.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Syria: The Desert and the Sown
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Gertrude Lowthian Bell
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1919
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Brasch DS94 BD78 1908
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Books
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London: Heinemann
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Inscribed in this book is the following note: ‘Miss <strong>Gertrude Bell</strong> was one of the most potent British influences in the Near East & one of the greatest women travellers of all time.’ <strong>Bell</strong> (1868-1926) was like her compatriot in the desert, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia): an Oxford graduate, archaeologist, secret agent, Foreign Office employee, and inveterate traveller. Indeed, to Lawrence (and others) she was ‘<strong>Bell</strong> of Baghdad’. <strong>Bell</strong>’s early expeditions in the Middle East, which included meeting and conversing with Bedouin tribesmen, resulted in her <em>Syria: The Desert and the Sown</em> (1907), of which this is a later reprint. <strong>Bell</strong> continued to have immense influence in Arab and Iraq affairs until her death in 1926.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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The Wall Do Not Fall
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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1944
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Brasch PS3507 O726 W3
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Book covers
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London: Oxford University Press
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<em>The Walls Do Not Fall</em> (1944) is the first book in <strong>Hilda ‘H.D.’ Doolittle</strong>’s <em>Trilogy</em>, a personal poetic response to WWII. This 43-section poem by American poet, Doolittle, was dedicated to her lover, Bryher (Winifred Ellerman). For ‘<strong>H.D</strong>’ (1886-1961), it all started in 1911, at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in Soho, London. There, she met the Imagist poet Ezra Pound who, as a supporter and friend, conferred on her the term ‘<strong>H.D</strong>. Imagiste’, which later was shortened to her pen-name ‘<strong>H.D</strong>’. An important feminist poet, ‘<strong>H.D</strong>’ was the first woman to be granted the American Academy of Arts and Letters medal.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1852
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De Beer Eb 1852 S
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Books
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London: John Cassell
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<strong>Harriet Beecher Stowe</strong> (1811-1896) wrote her classic anti-slavery novel, <em>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</em>, with a definite purpose in mind. In 1850, she wrote to the editor of the anti-slavery journal, <em>The National Era</em>: ‘I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.’ First appearing in serial format (for which she was paid $400), the novel was published in 1852. It was extremely popular, and controversial, especially in the South. It sold 10,000 copies the first week. Over the next year, it sold 300,000 copies in America, and over one million copies in Britain. Because there was no international copyright law, the book was pirated. This edition – with George Cruikshank’s illustrations – is a pirate copy, printed by Cassell in London in 1852. <strong>Stowe</strong> did not receive a penny for it.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Katherine Mansfield
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Heather Curnow
Date
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1968
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Brasch PR9640 M35 Z5 CZ13
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Wellington: A.H. and A W. Reed
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Heather Curnow’s <strong><em>Katherine Mansfield</em></strong> was part of a New Zealand Profiles series on prominent New Zealanders.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Toying with a Fancy
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Helen Kapp
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[1948]
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Brasch NC1479.5 K35 A4 1948
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Books
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London: Robert Hale Limited
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<strong>Helen Kapp</strong> (1901-1978) was an artist who studied at Slade School of Art, and the Central School of Arts and Craft in Paris, where she met Modigliani. At one stage, she was director of the Wakefield City Art Gallery, Yorkshire, and first director of Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Westmorland. <strong>Kapp</strong>’s work, <em>Toying with a Fancy</em>, began ‘out of a cloud of Drambuie on a crisp snowy Yorkshire night’. The result gave her license for satire. The images carry a playful viciousness, something akin to those by German artist, George Grosz. This book is a presentation copy to Charles Brasch, who at one stage tried to organise an artistic residency for<strong> Kapp</strong> in New Zealand.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Henrici Valesii Militis, Domini d’Orce, Consiliarii, et Historiographi Regii,…
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Henri de Valois
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1740
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Shoults Lc 1740 V
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Books
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[Amsterdam]: Apud Salomonem Schouten
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Thought to have been a boy at birth, <strong>Queen Christina</strong> of Sweden (1629-1689) received all the educational advantages of being one in 17th century Europe. Described by her tutor as ‘not like a female’, <strong>Christina</strong> became ‘one of the most learned women’ of the time. She inherited the throne aged six when her father died, and from age 18, she ruled Sweden until her abdication in 1654. During her reign,<strong> Christina</strong> encouraged the sciences, arts, and culture in her Court; she insisted on dressing androgynously; and she refused to marry, apparently having several same-sex relationships in her life. As described in Henri de Valois’s piece, <strong>Christina</strong> was a ‘SERENISSIMA ac DOCTISSIMA REGINA’ – ‘fairest and most learned Queen’.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
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Hester Stanhope
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1845
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Special Collections DA536 S8 A3 1845
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Books
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London: Henry Colburn
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At 34, <strong>Lady Hester Stanhope</strong> (1776-1839) left England for the Middle East, never to return. This forceful and opinionated (according to William Pitt, her uncle) woman was a risk taker, certainly in a world dominated by male social and religious customs. En route to Cairo, <strong>Stanhope</strong> lost all her possessions. She refused to wear a veil, and adopted male attire. Indeed, she met the local Pasha wearing a purple velvet robe, embroidered trousers, waistcoat, jacket, and a sabre. Known as ‘Queen <strong>Hester</strong>’, she undertook the first archaeological dig in Palestine, excavating the ruins of Ashkelon, north of Gaza. She retired to Sidon, halfway between Tyre and Beirut, reclusive, but still forceful. This is volume one of <strong>Stanhope</strong>’s <em>Memoirs</em>.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
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Ida Pfeiffer
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1852
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Special Collections DS48 P52 1852
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Books
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London: Ingram, Cooke
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The Austrian world-traveller <strong>Ida Pfeiffer</strong> (1797-1858), wrote in her <em>Visit to Iceland</em> (1852) ‘When I was but a little child, I had already a strong desire to see the world’. Released from an unhappy marriage, and with the education of her sons finalised, <strong>Pfeiffer</strong> eventually realised her dream of travelling to the Holy Land. In 1842, she travelled to Istanbul and continued on to Palestine and Egypt. After arriving home, she did not stop. Over her lifetime, <strong>Pfeiffer</strong> visited Scandinavia and Iceland; made a first trip around the world taking in Brazil, Tahiti, and Greece; and a second visiting equatorial Borneo (the first Western woman to do so), California, and Peru. Despite all <strong>Pfeiffer</strong>’s courageous activities, and writings, she was never accepted into the Royal Geographical Society. This book is an 1852 reprint of her Holy Land adventures.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Isabella Lucy Bird
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1881
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Special Collections F782 R6 B59 1881
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Books
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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‘For the benefit of other lady travellers, I wish to explain that my ‘Hawaiian riding dress’ is the ‘American Lady’s Mountain Dress,’ a half-fitting jacket, a skirt reaching to the ankles, and full Turkish trousers gathered into frills falling over the boots – a thoroughly serviceable and feminine costume for mountaineering and other rough travelling, as in the Alps or any other part of the world.’ So wrote <strong>Isabella Bird Bishop</strong> (1831-1904) in the beginning of her, <em>Life in the Rocky Mountains</em>. While ‘rough travelling’, she met outlaw Jim Nugent, climbed Long’s Peak (the highest mountain in the region), and lived rough at Estes Park. <strong>Bishop</strong>’s book, along with twelve other travel books she wrote, gained her the distinction of being the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Owls Do Cry
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Janet Frame
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1957
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Special Collections PR9641 F7 O9 1957
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Christchurch: Pegasus Press
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Under the name <strong>Janet Frame</strong> (1924-2004), Nene Janet Paterson Clutha is certainly one of New Zealand’s best known novelists and short story writers. Her reputation is international, and there is high regard for all her work, especially the autobiographical sequence: <em>To the Is-land</em>, <em>An Angel at my Table</em>, and <em>The Envoy from Mirror City</em>. While Frame’s <em>The Lagoon</em> <em>and Other Stories</em> (1951) gained her prizes, it was <em>Owls Do Cry</em>, her first full-length novel, published in 1957, that established her literary career. The famed cover illustration by Dennis Beytagh on this work has become a classic.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea
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Joan Druett
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2000
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Central D27 DS74; Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz
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Book covers
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The role of women in maritime history is commonly reduced to that of cook, laundress or prostitute. In short, background service providers in an industry dominated by men. It is difficult now to establish the number of women who went to sea as sailors or pirates. However, there were ‘she-captains’ and female pirates: 5th century Scandinavian pirate, <strong>Alwilda</strong>, whose courage is said to have equalled or surpassed her male counterparts; <strong>Grace O’Malley</strong> or <strong>Gráinne Mhaol</strong> (1530-1603), who led pirate ships off the west coast of Ireland; cross-dressing Englishwoman <strong>Ann Mills</strong> (18th century), who is usually depicted holding the decapitated head of a Frenchman; <strong>Ching Shih</strong> (1775-1844), Chinese pirate, who had up to 40,000 people working for her; and American-born pirate <strong>Rachel Wall </strong>(b. 1760), the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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All for Love, or, The World Well Lost
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John Dryden
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1740
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De Beer Eb 1740 D
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Books
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London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson
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One of the most famous female rulers of all time, <strong>Cleopatra</strong> (69-30 BC), is often remembered for the wrong reasons. Represented over the centuries in various forms of art – paintings, poetry, plays (as above) – <strong>Cleopatra</strong>’s supposed beauty, her affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and her questionable suicide, are usually the focus. However, <strong>Cleopatra</strong> was an intellect who spoke nine languages; she was politically astute, governing Egypt for 18 years in turbulent times; and she was ruthless, killing three of her siblings to maintain her rule. Despite this, she has been described as a ‘whore’, ‘disgusting’, and ‘wicked’. Let us now remember <strong>Cleopatra</strong> for her intelligence and her achievements as a ruler.
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Assertionis Lutheranae Confvtatio Ivxta Vervm ac Etiam Originalem Archetypum
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John Fisher
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1545
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Shoults Fb 1545 F
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Books
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[Paris: Charlotte] Guillard
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This Latin edition of <em>Assertions on Luther</em> (1545) by John Fisher (1469-1535) was printed by <strong>Charlotte Guillard</strong> (d.1557), who over a lengthy career became one of the most important printers of the Latin Quarter in Paris. It seems <strong>Guillard</strong> was destined for the print world. After being widowed twice – first from printer Berthold Rembolt, then from Claude Chevallon, a bookseller and printer – she took over both businesses, and ran them efficiently. She owned five printing presses, had 25 employees, and a stock of 13,000 books. The books <strong>Guillard</strong> produced, like this one, were recognized for their beauty and accuracy.
Women
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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Fictional Portrait of Hypatia
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Jules Maurice Gaspard
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1908
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Wikimedia Commons
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Drawing
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Image of the mathematician, Hypatia.