Knowing Their Place: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th CenturyThe History Press, 1 sept 2014 - 320 páginas Knowing their Place is a comprehensive account of the public, private and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age. In particular, this book looks at the steady progress of girls and women within the education system, their gradual involvement in intellectual life through amateur societies (such as the Royal Dublin Society); their emergence of independent, highly motivated scholarly and philanthropic individuals who operated within local spheres with often very considerable degrees of success and influence. |
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Helen Waddell 18891965 | |
Female Irish Writing | |
General Practice? Victorian Irish Women and United Kingdom | |
Irish Women at Cambridge 18751904 | |
Women and Divorce Law Reform in Victorian | |
A Terrible Beauty? Women Modernity and Irish Nationalism | |
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Alexandra College Alice Alice Milligan Anna Parnell Anne attended awarded became Belfast Cambridge career Catholic Cork cultural Cumann na mBan daughter degree divorce Education in Ireland Emily England English essays examinations female students feminist fiction Freeman’s Journal gender girls Girton Girton College Gonne graduates headmistress Helen Waddell High School higher education History husband Ibid Inghinidhe Inghinidhe na hÉireann intellectual Intermediate Irish Academic Press Irish Industry Irish women Jennifer FitzGerald Julia Kavanagh Kavanagh Lady Land League later lectures literary lives London Lord Loreto Margaret marriage Mary Maude Maude’s Medieval middleclass Museum of Irish Narrative National nationalist Newnham nineteenth century nineteenthcentury Ireland novel O’Connor organisation Oxford political published pupils Queen’s College Queen’s University RCScI Royal College Scholars School of Science scientific secondary schools sisters social Society teachers teaching Trinity College Dublin Tripos University Press Victoria College Victorian Westmeath woman women’s colleges writing