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Madame de Staël – Literature, Society and “Woman” | blue-stocking
https://blue-stocking.org.uk/2014/05/28/madame-de-stael-literature-society-and-woman
Madame de Staël Literature, Society and Woman. May 28, 2014. Un homme doit savoir braver l’opinion; une femme s’y soumettre [. A man must know how to defy opinion; a woman, how to obey it. [1]). Century was to develop. It is thus through her engagement with contemporary debates regarding: literature, the relationship between the Self and Society, and the role of women therein, that makes Germaine de Staël a truly ground-breaking woman. Literature: Revolution and Romanticism. Corinne, ou l’Italie. Century...
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What was a girl to do? Rachel Parsons (1885–1956): engineer and feminist campaigner | blue-stocking
https://blue-stocking.org.uk/2014/05/23/what-was-a-girl-to-do-rachel-parsons-1885-1956-engineer-and-feminist-campaigner
What was a girl to do? Rachel Parsons (1885 1956): engineer and feminist campaigner. May 23, 2014. What was a girl to do in the year 1900 if she wanted to become an engineer? Perhaps even more important was the legacy of a grandmother, Mary Rosse, who had herself been an astronomer and engineer, as well as a pioneer of early photography, and the influence of a mother who would become one of the foremost campaigners in northeast England for women’s rights. Women working in a turbine factory. While at Roed...
