BMA Opens Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest

From Cecil Daily:

From the heroines of ancient myth to the female trailblazers of the modern era, centuries of independent and rebellious women have been trivialized or condemned through the degrading myths and gendered stereotypes perpetuated in printed imagery. 

From July 18–December 19, 2021, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents an exhibition that captures visual representations of independent, defiant, and sometimes misunderstood women and explores the role of European and American art in both continuing their condemnation and celebrating their achievements. 

Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest features over 75 prints, photographs, and books from the Renaissance to the early 20th century drawn from the BMA’s vast works on paper collection and supplemented with loans from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Maryland Center for History and Culture, and private collections.

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Dr Helen Pankhurst: 'The suffragettes were violent freedom fighters."

Comment in the Telegraph by Dr Helen Pankhurst:

As a new exhibition about women's suffrage opens, Dr Helen Pankhurst, the great granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline, explains why it made her chuckle and recalls the truly damaging tactics of her ancestors.

One hundred years ago, the National Portrait Gallery was issued surveillance photographs of suffragettes, including my great-grandmother Emmeline Pankhurst, by the Criminal Records Bureau. It was hoped that, as a result, staff would be able to recognise women planning to attack the gallery’s artworks in their campaign of political protest. Such concerns were justified: on March 10 1914 Mary Richardson slashed the Rokeby Venus, hanging just a few steps away in the National Gallery, with a small axe. She was also arrested for arson, vandalising the Home Office and bombing a railway station.

Now the internal warning memos and surveillance images of my great-grandmother and her fellow campaigners are themselves part of a fascinating exhibition at the NPG, entitled “Suffragettes: Deeds not Words”. I must confess that I chuckled on first seeing the display. What a wonderful irony it is that the Gallery is now positively promoting those whom it once looked out for in fear. Trouble makers have, over time, become worthy of tribute.

Read entire article here @ the Telegraph

Womens' Suffrage Marches

WHY YOU MUST MARCH

Because this is the most conspicuous and important demonstration that has ever been attempted by suffragists in this country.

Because this parade will be taken to indicate the importance of the suffrage movement by the press of the country and the thousands of spectators from all over the United States gathered in Washington for the Inauguration.

So said the broadsheets handed out and so they gathered. There were three notable marches recorded for posterity - the first in Washington, the next two in New York.

Suffrage Parade - 6th May 1912 - New York City

It was a bold tactic, adopted by suffragists and the more militant suffragettes shortly after the turn of the century. Although some women chose to quit the movement rather than march in public, others embraced the parade as a way of publicizing their cause and combating the idea that women should be relegated to the home. (Source: World Digital Library)

Suffrage Parade - 3rd March 1913 - Washington.

In 1913, the first major national efforts were undertaken, beginning with a massive parade in Washington, D.C., on March 3 -- one day before the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Organized by Alice Paul for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the parade, calling for a constitutional amendment, featured 8,000 marchers, including nine bands, four mounted brigades, 20 floats, and an allegorical performance near the Treasury Building. (Source: The Atlantic - March 1st, 2013)

Women from countries that had enfranchised women held the place of honor in the first section of the procession. Then came the “Pioneers” who had been struggling for so many decades to secure women's right to vote. The next sections celebrated working women, who were grouped by occupation and wearing appropriate garb—nurses in uniform, women farmers, homemakers, women doctors and pharmacists, actresses, librarians, college women in academic gowns. Harriet Hifton of the Library of Congress Copyright Division led the librarians' contingent. The state delegations followed, and finally the separate section for male supporters of women's suffrage. All had come from around the country to “march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.” (Source: Library of Congress - Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession).

Read more here:
- The Atlantic
- Library of Congress
- Women of History - Suffrage March of 1913
- Smithsonian - Original Women's March

- Activist New York


Suffrage March - 23rd October 2015 - New York

On October 23, 1915, over 25,000 women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate for women’s suffrage. At that point, the fight had been ongoing for more than 65 years, with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 first passing a resolution in favor of women’s suffrage. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t find success for another five years. New York’s 1915 suffrage parade was the largest held in the city until that time. (Source: Behind the Scenes: New York History)

Read more here at:
- The Bowery Boys: New York City History
- The Feminist Majority Foundation


Suffrage March - October 1917 - New York

This NY Times article covers the Fifth Avenue Parade in 1917. Many leaders from various groups, including NAWSA, were a part of this event that used the fighting for democracy in World War I to help promote their cause for fighting for democracy at home. This parade, filled with patriotism for our troops, also used President Wilson’s suffrage endorsement to support their cause. While women, like Carrie Chapman Catt, walked in the parade, NWP members were in the crowd passing out their newspapers and encouraging the protest of the war time President. (Source: New York Times)

Read more here at:
- Women's Suffrage in the United States (wikipedia)
- New York Times: 1917 - When Women Won Right ToVote
- Yates County History Centre
- Night of Terror
- Timeline of Women's Suffrage in United States (wikipedia)
- National Archives - Women's Suffrage Party Petition
- New York Rediscovered
- Digital Documents - Women's Suffrage

Suffrage March of 1913

From the Smithsonian:

In the spring of 1913, women in six states had the right to vote in all elections: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington and California. Despite these successes, though, the momentum of the 65-year-old suffrage movement was slowing. It was like a car running on fumes.

Alice Paul decided to give it some gas. Having recently returned to the States from England, where she cut her teeth as a suffragist, the 28-year-old New Jersey native pitched an idea to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She would organize a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., strategically timed with the influx of crowds arriving for President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, to drum up support for the cause. NAWSA appointed Paul the chair of its Congressional committee and approved her plan, but made it clear that she would have to come up with the money for the parade on her own. 

Links:

Womens' Suffrage Parade of 4th March 1913

Womens' Suffrage March - wikipedia

Anniversary of 19th Amendment

From Campbell Patch:

Today is the 91st anniversary of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution taking effect, giving women the right to vote. It's a milestone in the Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States and one that still resonates with modern women.

Rose Scott (1847-1925)

Social Reformer and Suffragette

Rose Scott was born in Glendon, New South Wales (Australia). Like many women of her time, Rose campaigned for suffrage (1891) in Australia, concentrating on better working hours and conditions for shop girls. Through her work and in recogninition of her work, Rose was appointed the first Secretary of the Women's Suffrage League (New South Wales, Australia), and President of the Prisoner's Aid Society.

Rose was also influential in establishing the Childrens' Court (1918). She was a staunch pacifist during the Boer and First World Wars. Rose founded the Women's College at the University of Sydney. Rose was successful in achieving her aim due to her great initiative and her knack for co-operating well with both men and women.

Vida Golstein

Feminist and Political Activist (1869-1949)

Vida Jane Mary Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria. She became involved in women's suffrage activities through her mother (1890). Vida soon became active in the National Anti-Sweating League and the Criminology Society. Her primary aim was to achieve women's suffrage - and she campaigned for this (1899-1908).

Australian women were granted the federal vote (1902). Vida stood for the Senate (1903) as an Independent Candidate backed by the Women's Federal Political Association, which was dedicated to the principals for compulsory conciliation and arbitration, equal rights and pay, redistribution of wealth and the appointment of women to official posts. Though she polled well, Vida did not get elected.

Through the renamed Women's Political Association and her own newspaper "Women's Sphere" (owner and editor 1900-1905), Vida began a program of education women voters. She campaigned for and achieved (1908) State Franchise for women. Vida returned to national politics (1908), and founded a second paper "Woman Voter" (1909). Vida continued to stand as Independent Woman Candidate - twice for the Senate (1910 and 1917) and twice for the House of Representative (1913 and 1914). She did not stand again after her second Senate defeat (1917).

Vida also had influence in Australia Legislation with the Childrens' Court Act which she helped draft and which was made law (1906). Vida wrote articles which lead to the implementation of the concept of the basic wage (1907). Vida became increasingly involved with Christian Science, and helped found the Melbourne Christian Science Church. In her last years, Vida lived with her two sisters, one Aileen was also a practitioners within the Christian Science Church. Vida died of cancer (1949) - her death went almost unnoticed - almost.

Womens Equality Day - 26th August

From the Capital Flyer:

This year is the 90th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States. At the first women’s rights convention in 1848 the call for women’s right to vote was heard. That call was answered on Aug. 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was officially approved.  At a time when women were intended to be seen and not heard, American suffragists braved reprimand and hardship by speaking out on behalf of all women.

For 72 years the non-violent movement continued. Extraordinary women arose in each state and became part of history themselves when they successfully secured civil rights and political independence for American women. This 90th Anniversary offers a unique opportunity to pay tribute to their bravery, determination, and tenacity and to their lasting achievement.

The League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia invites all women and men to join them on Thursday at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

History of International Women's Day

From the Washington Free Press:

Women are a revolutionary force. That fact shows in their holiday, International Women's Day (IWD), both its past and present.

The holiday's roots are in the struggles of working women and their socialist supporters. It's believed that a mass protest by women garment and textile workers in New York City in 1857 occurred on March 8, and that in March two years later the same women won a drive to unionize. They were fighting against brutal working conditions, low wages, and the 12-hour day.

On March 8, 1908, socialist women organized a demonstration of 15,000 in New York. Their demands were pay raises, shorter hours, the vote, and an end to child labor. After that, the Socialist Party of America decided to celebrate a women's day in the US, the first of which was held in 1909.

Turn of the Century Women

From My Central Jersey:

Bound Brook Memorial Library, 402 E. High St., will present a program entitled, “Women at the Turn of the Century 1880-1920” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 4.

At the turn of the century, society’s perception of women was in transition, due to the changes going on in the country. Technology, urbanization and immigration were driving changes in the social and economic status of women.

This presentation will discuss women’s advancement into the professions, arts and business, in addition to how women took the initiative to drive social change and innovative approaches to serious social issues like health, public welfare and suffrage while improving their own position in society.

This program is free and open to the public. Call 732-356-0043 to register.

Patricia Jennings & the AAUW

From the Jackson Citizen Patriot:

Patricia Jennings is committed to the mission of the American Association of University Women. It was the organization's mission to ``promote equity for women and girls through education, research, advocacy and philanthropy'' that interested Jennings 43 years ago.

Jennings is a life member of the association, and this is her third year as the group's state communications director. In that role, she helps increase the visibility of the organization as well as attract new members.

She has been involved with the association's annual book sale and assisted in the development of an informational DVD.

For Jennings, part of moving the association forward means being involved with several events, including Equal Pay Day at the state Capitol and women's suffrage events at the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame.

League of Women Voters

From the Newton Daily News:

Ninety years ago, Iowa native, Carrie Chapman Catt first proposed a League of Women Voters to “finish the fight” and work to end all discrimination against women.

And so the League of Women Voters was founded on Valentine’s Day in 1920, six months before the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. In 1920, after a 72-year struggle, passage of the 19th Amendment appeared to be imminent, and members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association met to form the League of Women Voters, the organization to educate the newly franchised women to effectively use the vote.

The Newton unit of LWV was organized 1934 through the efforts of Mrs. E. L. Gladys Nelson, who lived in Grinnell. After she and her husband moved to Newton, Nelson organized a unit in 1934 in Newton at the urging of Grinnell League members.

Posthumous Senate Appoinment for Famous 5

From The Star:

Eighty years after they changed history, the Famous 5 have done it again - this time by becoming the only Canadians to be appointed honorary senators.

The Famous 5 are Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlby, and in 1929, they won a landmark court ruling that recognized women as "persons," thus opening up the doors for women to sit in the Senate.

This week they were posthumously appointed to the Canadian Senate.

This is the first time that such an honour will be bestowed upon a Canadian, said Frances Wright, founder of the non-profit Famous 5 Foundation.

"It's a fabulous gift," she said on Sunday from Calgary. "It shows that dreams in Canada can come true and particularly when you dedicate your life, as the Famous 5 did, to contributing to the growth of Canada."

The Senate voted to name the women honorary senators on Oct. 8, just 10 days before the 80th anniversary of their historic triumph.

The Famous 5 lobbied to have women included in the definition of `persons' under the BNA Act of 1867 so they could participate in all levels of political life.

After failing to persuade the Supreme Court, the Famous 5 took their fight to the British Privy Council, then Canada's highest court, and won.

"By not being present in the Senate, (women) had no ability to amend a bill or encourage its passage," Wright explained. "That's why they wanted women to be in the Senate."

Of the five women, Emily Murphy most yearned to become a senator but this would never happen, Wright said.

In 1930, she was passed over for a senate opening for Alberta businessman Patrick Burns. This was puzzling, Wright said, because Burns was a Liberal and then prime minister, R.B. Bennett, was a Conservative, like Murphy.

Murphy would die a year later and she never again found an opportunity to be named a senator. Until now.

"These were women who had tremendous impact," Wright said. "They could have been outstanding senators if prejudice hadn't prevented it."

Today, 35 of Canada's 105 Senate seats are occupied by women. The first female Canadian senator was Cairine Wilson, appointed in 1930, just months after the Person's Case ruling.

Pioneering Women of the East

From Outlook Online:
"Some think that women’s rights were recognized first in western states because of those rugged women who walked the Oregon Trail, gave birth in wagon beds, grubbed farms from raw land and wrestled a few wildcats when necessary. Having proved equal to the West, how could you deny them a ballot?

Wyoming, Utah and Idaho were front-runners. The state of Washington was the fifth state in the nation to give women the right to vote in 1910. In 1912, Oregon and Arizona fell in line.

Women in East Multnomah County were quick to grab up those rights and put them to use. Corbett school histories note that Lizzie Latourell served on the school board of Latourell and Mountain schools as early as 1901.

In rural communities where the talent pool was smaller and the gender gap not as wide, it was easier to elect a woman whom all voters, men and women, knew to be capable.

That happened to Troutdale’s Clara Latourell Larsson, one of a handful of first female mayors in Oregon. Like her relative Lizzie Latourell, she made an easy transition from the ballot to the gavel. Elected mayor of Troutdale in 1913, a year after women got the vote in Oregon, she served in city government in one capacity or another until shortly before her death in 1939.

Her good friend, Laura Bullock Harlow, became Troutdale’s second woman mayor in 1925. She was, said the newspapers, “of the Republican faith.” She lived in the house that is now the city’s Harlow House Museum and was mayor when Troutdale built its new school in 1926.

Lena St. Clair, sitting at a high bookkeeper’s desk in the front office, worked side by side with her husband to found The Gresham Outlook in 1911. She wrote about city government before she could vote for those who governed.

Margaret Weil became Gresham’s first woman mayor in 1983, resigning in 1987. In 1988 Norma Jean (Gussie) McRobert was elected and served the city for 10 years.

Beyond the political arena, Gresham can claim community builders such as the late Betty Schedeen, business women such as the late Mildred Fancher Hodges, who kept Fancher Auto Parts thriving after the death of her husband in a plane crash, and Dr. Corinne Trullinger Chamberlain, Gresham’s first female doctor who brought 5,000 children into the world.

All but McRobert and Weil were born to women who did not have full voting rights until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. "

March 8: International Women's Day

Article by Jean Hayworth in Breckenridge American Online:
"March is designated as Women’s History Month in the United States and March 8 is specifically celebrated as International Women’s Day around the world.

By 1978, women historians had begun to take on the task of integrating the accomplishments of women into the study of history by promoting the celebration of a “Women’s History Week.” That week was chosen to coincide with the already established International Women’s Day on March 8.

By 1981 Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Barbara Milulski co-sponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national “Women’s History Week” that included the International Women’s Day.

In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month and March was declared Women’s History Month.

The study of women’s history has changed significantly since the 1960s when there was little or no attention on women in history. Now, almost every college offers women’s history courses and most major graduate programs offer doctoral degrees in the field of women’s studies.

Betty Friedan’s book, “The Feminine Mystique,” published in 1963, challenged the traditional roles of women as homemakers and is largely responsible for jump-starting the feminist revolution in the 1960s.

However, Friedan is mistakenly given credit for the Equal Rights Amendment that was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1972 and sent to the states for ratification. The amendment was actually written in 1923 by Alice Paul, a suffragist who founded the National Woman’s Party. The Equal Rights Amendment was introduced to congress every year from 1923 to 1972 when it finally passed. The amendment was given a deadline of seven years to be ratified by the states but that was extended until June 30, 1982, which gave it a full 10 years to be ratified. Even with the extension, the amendment fell short of the 38 states required to pass it by only getting 35 states to ratify the bill.

Two significant factors contributed to the emergence of women’s history. The women’s movement of the ‘60s which caused women to question their place in society. Most women up to that time had no voice and were largely invisible but opportunities and aspirations began to formulate and women seized the moment to find new opportunities made available to women. The other factor was the new emphasis on “social history” that emerged in the seventies and shifted the emphasis to a broader spectrum of American life, including such topics as urban life, public health, ethnicity and poverty.

Since women rarely held leadership positions and until recently had only a marginal influence in politics, the new history focused on the sociological which became the ideal vehicle for presenting women’s history. It has covered such subjects as the history of women’s education, birth control, housework, marriage, sexuality and child rearing. Women historians began to realize they had limited their studies to the white middle-class and should expand to examine the full racial and socio-economic spectrum of women.

Women have come a long way on the political scene, as well. The first woman was elected to the House of Representatives, in 1916; Jennette Rankin, from Montana, before women even had the right to vote. In many western states, women did have the right to vote and Montana was one of the first. The first woman appointed to the Senate was Rebecca Felton in 1922, which was only for two days. It wasn’t until 1932 that a woman was elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway.

Currently, there are 17 women Senators in the 111th U.S. Congress which includes four Republicans and 13 Democrats. There are 75 women in the U.S. House of Representatives which includes 58 Democrats and 17 Republicans.

Hillary Clinton received a great deal of media attention running for the presidential nomination. However, she was not the first woman to run for that high office as was mistakenly reported nor was she the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency by a major party.

Victoria Woodhull, an American suffragist, ran for the presidency in 1872 and 1892 under the banner of the Equal Rights Party.

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to run a serious campaign for a major political party, the Republican Party, in 1964, losing to Barry Goldwater. Smith was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency of either of the two major political parties.

It might be significant that the first bill passed by President Barack Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act which will allow a person to file within 180 days of their last paycheck rather than 180 days from the first discriminatory paycheck and end discriminatory actions against women who have been paid 80 cents for every dollar a male counterpart has received.

I was under the misguided impression that all of this was settled in the Equal Pay Act of 1963 which made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who hold the same job and do the same work. Unfortunately, wage discrimination continued under the guise of different maneuvers that included a slight change in job description or using the “going market rate’ to further discriminate.

I am mystified why it took so long to get these type of discriminatory practices declared illegal. Maybe it is the lack of enforcement or lack of desire by employers who have continued the discriminatory practices and thumbed their nose at the prevailing laws.

The glass ceiling has been cracked in the business world with only 10 women who have top executive positions in Fortune 500 companies and just 15 percent of board seats in those 500 companies are filled by women.

During the month of March, if you are a woman, it might be a good time to take time to evaluate where you are in different areas of your life and what you are entitled to as a women."

Centenary of Washington Vote

From the Seattle Events Examiner:
"March 1st marks the start of National Women’s History Month and to celebrate women’s historical achievements the National Parks Service has a series of events lined up. The main exhibit, entitled Catharine Blaine: Seneca Falls and the Women’s Rights Movement in the state of Washington, will run from March 1 to May 30.

Catharine Paine Blaine, an early women’s rights proponent, was only 18 when she and 100 others signed the Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. The document put into motion a need for changes in society to grant female citizens “all the rights and privileges” already enjoyed by men. By 1954, Catharine became one of Seattle’s first schoolteachers while also playing a major role in Washington’s suffrage movement. Washington, always one of the more progressive states, became the fifth state to grant women the right to vote in 1910.

Women’s rights have just now reached the 100-year mark. National Women's History Month is the perfect time to pay homage to the lives of the courageous women from just a couple generations ago who dared to take on a powerful patriarchy and through the waves they made empowered millions of women ever since."

Suffragettes Boycott Census

From the Times Online:
"A mass protest by women campaigning to be allowed to vote has finally come to public attention, almost a century too late to make a difference. Hundreds of suffragettes risked prosecution in 1911 by spoiling their census forms in a coordinated revolt.

But the full impact of their boycott has not emerged until today because of secrecy rules. Census information is usually kept secret for 100 years, but the 1911 documents have been released three years early because the rule was not enshrined in law until 1920.

The public protest was reported in The Times on April 3, 1911, but its full extent remained hidden to the public. "

Women's Vote in Ireland

Sunday marked the 90th anniversary of the day Irish women cast their first vote.

From the Belfast Telegraph:
There were certain conditions, however: "...... - they had to be over thirty years of age and land owners, a restriction that wasn't lifted until ten years later in 1928."


My, how things have changed!

Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein"

Did she or didn't she ... that is the question. Did Mary Shelley write this gothic masterpiece .... or did she have help.

According to an article appearing in the Telegraph, Mary Shelley did not write "Frankenstein" on her own - she had help - from her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. So says Professor Charles Robinson of the University of Delaware in the US, who attributes no less than 5000 "amendments" to the novel to Mr Shelley.

From the article by Stephen Adams:
"The Romantic poet made some 5,000 changes to a pre-publication script of the classic novel, according to Professor Charles Robinson of the University of Delaware in the US.

He changed key descriptions that helped paint a more vivid picture of scientist Victor Frankenstein's monster, the professor found.

They include his addition that the monster's hair be described as "lustrous black" and that Victor should refer to him as "beautiful" rather than "handsome".

Prof Robinson made the discoveries by methodically working through the handwritten text, lodged at Oxford University's Bodleian Library.

The academic, who is to publish his research this October in a book, The Original Frankenstein, said: "He made very significant changes in words, themes and style. The book should now be credited as 'by Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley'."

The professor postulated that the couple may have added their comments to the manuscript while sitting in bed together.

"It seems they were using the same pen and very likely were often writing in bed together," he said.

He claimed Percy Shelley's additions often clarified his young wife's writing, making it more lucid.

While Mary originally wrote that Victor was "unable to endure the aspect of the creature I had created", Percy changed it to the more direct "unable to endure the being I had created".

Prof Robinson said it was highly likely that the Romantic poet, famous for such works as Ozymadias and Ode to the West Wind, had a great influence on the overall direction the novel took.

Frankenstein, published in 1818, remains one of the most enduring horror stories.

The tale of a scientist who makes a living being by assembling the limbs of the dead, only to see his creation turn on him, remains as potent in today's world of genetic engineering as it did almost 200 years ago.

First published anonymously, it has come to be seen as one of the first major novels by a woman, and one of the world's first science fiction books.

Mary wrote the novel after she and Percy, who was still married to his first wife, travelled to the Geneva villa of fellow poet Lord Byron in the summer of 1816.

Imprisoned indoors by unseasonably foul weather, they started discussing the supernatural. After reading a collection of German ghost stories they decided to hold a competition to write their own pieces.

The first edition was panned by most critics but it nevertheless sold fast. Its popularity was enhanced by early theatrical adaptations and subsequent editions were published in 1823 and 1831."

Judge for yourselves - I have also included a couple of links to Mary Shelley's famous mother, herself, quite the author!

Frankenstein - Literature.org
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
The Life of Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft - The History Guide
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft

Glasgow Women's Library

From 24Hour Museum:

Scotland's Feminism Archive To Be Given New Home
"Scotland’s long and distinguished history of feminism is to be preserved in a new dedicated Women’s Archive.

The Glasgow Women’s Library currently has material in storage filling 500 packing boxes, containing material documenting the social history of women over the last ten decades.

Now, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £410,000, the boxes will be unpacked, catalogued and properly archived to form the core collection of a new purpose-built facility within the city’s Mitchell Library.

Containing thirty thousand publications, letters, drawings, recordings, film and photographs the collection illustrates women’s experiences and activism and includes material on family planning, the Suffragette movement and the second wave of Feminism (1960’s – 1980’s).

It also includes rare materials such as the first edition of the 1928 Lesbian novel, the Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, which despite containing no explicit sexual references, was seen to defend homosexuality and, as such, was instantly banned. Nearly all copies were recalled by the publisher and subsequently figured in an obscenity trial."

Library Details:
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