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the Garretts and their circle
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Crawford, Elizabeth
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- emancipatie, feminisme, gelijke behandeling, wetenschappelijk onderwijs, beroepsonderwijs, vrouwenkiesrecht, suffragettes, pioniers, artsen, interieurarchitecten, tuin- en landschapsarchitecten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 1850-1899, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949, biografische gegevens
- Description
- First published in 2002. This book tells the story of a group of women around the Garrett family, who in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth changed the position of women in Britain. Pioneering access to education at all levels for women both in academic and vocational subjects as well as training for the professions – medicine, architectural decoration, landscape design – they also involved themselves in politics and the campaign for women’s suffrage. In detail the work will be discussed of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), suffragist and the first woman physician, Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), feminist, political activist and writer, and Emily Davies (1830-1921), feminist and suffragist and campaigner for women's right to university access. It also brings to the foreground the careers of some less well known members of the group, including Rhoda Garrett (1841-1882) and Agnes Garrett (1845-1935), the first women interior decorators, and Fanny Wilkinson (1855-1951), the first professional woman landscape gardener.
the remarkable story of the first women to fight for an education
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Robinson, Jane
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 22 2010
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijk onderwijs, studenten, geleerde vrouwen, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 1850-1899, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949
- Description
- In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man’s. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced, women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since.
the real story of Mileva Einstein-Maric
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Esterson, Allen
- Creator
- Cassidy, David C.
- Creator
- Sime, Ruth Lewin
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- M EUR 9 MAR 2019
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijke beroepen, natuurkunde, wiskunde, partners van, pioniers, wetenschappelijk onderwijs, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, historisch, Servië, Zwitserland, Duitsland, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949, onderzoek, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Story of the Serbian Mileva Maric (1875-1948), who studied physics and mathematics in Switzerland as one of the first women and was the first wife of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. She was forgotten for decades, till correspondence between them was discovered in 1986 and her story began to be told. Some claimed that she surpassed her husband and made contributions to Einstein's papers. This book, based on historical research, uncovers her life in which she struggled against a variety of obstacles, her contribution to Einstein's work and the history of the Mileva Story. Also included is an historical article on the struggle and success of women in science.
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