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Follow on Google News | New Review Emma Lowndes Monograph Turning Victorian Ladies Into WomenThis study of Bessie Rayner Parkes is the first full biography of a great feminist ,reformer and social activist of 19thc England and includes family documents heretofor never used in research scholarship.
By: Professor P. Hirsch,Cambridge University This book is of significant value for university and research libraries as much less scholarly work has been done on the Langham Place Group than there has been on the later suffragettes, and yet this earlier group articulated first feminist theories and set up activist programmes to help women into work. They lobbied Cambridge University to allow women to take degrees, and orchestrated a climate in which the idea of women having the vote could not be ignored. I welcome this excellent book on Bessie Rayner Parkes, as she is an unjustly overlooked pioneer, and her central role in the Langham Place Group has long needed devoted attention. Dr Pam Hirsch University Lecturer in English Literature and Film Faculty of Education University of Cambridge End
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