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Constance Maynard's Passions

2015-09-15 Education
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Release : 2015-09-15
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Constance Maynard's Passions by : Pauline A. Phipps

Download or read book Constance Maynard's Passions written by Pauline A. Phipps. This book was released on 2015-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful but self-tormented, English educational pioneer Constance Maynard (1849–1935) was a deeply religious evangelical Christian whose personal atonement theology demanded that one resist carnal feelings to achieve personal salvation. As the founder of Westfield College at the University of London, Maynard championed women’s access to a university education. As the college’s first principal, she also engaged in a string of passionate relationships with college women in which she imagined love as God’s gift as well as a test of her faith. Using Maynard’s extensive personal papers, especially her diaries and autobiography, Pauline A. Phipps examines how the language of her faith offered Maynard the means with which to carve out an independent career and to forge a distinct same-sex sexual self-consciousness in an era when middle-class women were expected to be subservient to men and confined to the home. Constance Maynard’s Passions is the fascinating account of a life which confounds the usual categories of faith, gender, and sexuality.

A Victorian Educational Pioneer’s Evangelicalism, Leadership, and Love

2022-11-15 History
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Release : 2022-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Victorian Educational Pioneer’s Evangelicalism, Leadership, and Love by : Pauline A. Phipps

Download or read book A Victorian Educational Pioneer’s Evangelicalism, Leadership, and Love written by Pauline A. Phipps. This book was released on 2022-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relatively unknown English late-Victorian educational pioneer, Constance Louisa Maynard (1849-1935), whose innovative London-based Westfield College produced the first female BAs in the mid-1880s. An atypical and powerful woman, Maynard is also notable for her unique knowledge of psychology and patriotic Evangelicalism, both of which profoundly shaped her ambitions and passions. In contrast to most history about an individual’s life, this book builds a fascinating life story based upon evidence and clues from minutia. The focus is on nine enigmatic actions motivated by Maynard in her quests for educational leadership, global conversion, and same-sex love. Maynard’s acts that she called “mistakes,” caused deep enmities with administrators and college women. Yet amid her trials and conflicts Maynard made key decisions about her public and private life. Moreover, her so-called mistakes reveal astonishing new insights into a past mindset and the rapidly changing world in which Maynard lived.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

2022-12-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-12-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing by : Lesa Scholl

Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing written by Lesa Scholl. This book was released on 2022-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Love, Desire and Melancholy

2018-10-11 History
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Release : 2018-10-11
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Book Synopsis Love, Desire and Melancholy by : Angharad Eyre

Download or read book Love, Desire and Melancholy written by Angharad Eyre. This book was released on 2018-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally inspired by the digitisation of the autobiographical writings of Constance Maynard, this volume considers women’s historical experience of sexuality through the frame of the history of emotions. Constance Maynard (1849-1935) rose to prominence as the first Mistress and Principal of Westfield College, holding that position from 1882 to 1913. However, her writings offer more than an insight into the movement for women’s higher education. As pioneering feminist scholars such as Martha Vicinus have discovered, Maynard’s life writings are a valuable source for scholars of gender and sexuality. Writing about her relationships with other women teachers and students, Maynard attempted to understand her emotions and desires within the frame of her evangelical religious culture. The contributions to this volume draw out the significance of Maynard’s writings for the histories of gender, sexuality, religion, and the emotions. Interdisciplinary in nature, they use the approaches of literary studies, architecture studies, and life writing to understand Maynard and her historical significance. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century

2022-11-30 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-11-30
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Book Synopsis Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century by : Angharad Eyre

Download or read book Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century written by Angharad Eyre. This book was released on 2022-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary character and narrative was, in fact, present in a range of writings from missionary newsletters and life writing, to canonical Victorian literature, New Woman fiction and women’s college writing. Nineteenth-century women writers wove the tropes of the female missionary figure and plot into their domestic fiction, and the female missionary themes of religious self-sacrifice and heroism formed the subjectivity of these writers and their characters. Offering an alternative narrative for the development of women writers and early feminism, as well as a new reading of Jane Eyre, this book adds to the debate about whether religious women in the nineteenth century could actually be radical and feminist.

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