Thanks for typing : remembering forgotten women in history / edited by Juliana Dresvina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dresvina, Juliana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--History.

Man-woman relationships.

Sex discrimination against women--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Authorship--Colloboration--History.

Authorship.

Research teams--History.

Research teams.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"As the #ThanksforTyping movement has shown, anonymous women working to support the work of their male relations and colleagues has been, and often still is, a universal phenomenon. These essays show just how long intelligent and determined women have been side-lined, ignored or forgotten throughout history. From the mother of the poet Philip Larkin to the wife of Ghana's first president, this book uncovers the uncredited contributions of wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

Introduction

1. Part I: Secretaries and Editors

2. M.E. Fitzgerald: Office Manager to Modernism, Catherine Hollis

3. The Secretary and Her Professor: Alli Hytti and L. A. Puntila, Anu Lahtinen

4. Jumped-up Typists: Two Guardians of the Flame, Karen Christensen

5. Thanks for Penguin: Women, Invisible Labour, and Publishing in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Rebecca E. Lyons

Part II: Politicians and Activists

6. Backing the Family: Servilia Between the Murder of Caesar and the Battle of Philippi, Susan Treggiari

7. A Flaming Soul: Maissi Erkko Fighting for Women, Finland and Family Legacy, Reetta Hanninen

8. Student, Diplomat, Wife, traveller ? A Transnational Life of Marie Sargant-Cerný, Hana Navratilova

9. Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Legacy of Kim Hak-soon (1924-1997), Woohee Kim

Part III: Artists and Painters

10. Jeanne de Montbaston: An Illuminating Woman, Melek Karatas

11. Judith Leyster: The Artist Vanishes, Irene Kukota

12. Textiles Rubbing Us the Wrong Way: A Tour of Karin Bergöö Larsson's Acts of Fibre Resistance, Godelinde Gertrude Perk

13. Canvases in the Attic: Four Generations of the Lane Poole women, Juliana Dresvina

Part IV: Mothers and Others

14. Haunting Augustine: St Monnica as Mother and Interlocutor, Patricia L. Grosse

15. "The Typist Home at Teatime": Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot's Role in Shaping T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), Arwa F. Al-Mubaddel

16. Edith Tolkien in the Eye of the Beholder, Maria Artamonova

17. "Why Aren't There More Women in Your Books?" Ann and William Golding, Nicola Presley

18. "You'll Say that Mum is at the Bottom of All This": the Untold Story of Eva Larkin, Philip Pullen

Part V: Poets and Writers

19. "Murder, He Wrote": Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Julia Bolton Holloway

20. Golden Myfanwy: The Domestic Goddess Who Turned the Screw, Eleanor Knight

21. Double Act: U.A. Fanthorpe and R.V. Bailey, Partners in Rhyme, Elizabeth Sandie

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781350150072

135015007X

9781350151659

1350151653

9781350150089

1350150088

OCLC:

1238133636