Pioneering Women [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClelland, Gillian.

Contributor:

Hadden, Diana.

Ulster Historical Foundation, Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education (Higher)--History--Belfast--Northern Ireland.

Women.

Riddel Hall (Belfast, Northern Ireland)--History.

Riddel Hall (Belfast, Northern Ireland).

Queen's University of Belfast--History.

Queen's University of Belfast.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Other Title:

Pioneering Women

Place of Publication:

Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foremost amongst the pioneers of third-level education for women in the north of Ireland were Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Never themselves having had the opportunity of university education, in 1913 they founded Riddel Hall as a residence for women students.

Contents:

Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD by L.A. Clarkson; AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on behalf of Riddel Hall Heritage Association; INTRODUCTION by Diana Hadden; 1 A Riddel Hall Chronicle; 2 Pioneering Women; 3 Students and Suffragettes; 4 The Founding of Riddel Hall; 5 Miss Ruth Duffin; 6 Early Days; 7 Contentious Issues; 8 Warden and Matron; 9 In Loco Parentis; 10 A Vision of Culture; 11 Citizenship; 12 The War Years; 13 Miss Joyce Power Steele; 14 Miss Dawson; 15 A Story-Book Experience

16 Demands for Change17 Changed Times; 18 The Final Decades; 19 The End of 'Ould Daecency'; EPILOGUE: Riddel Hall: After the Ladies by Marcus Patton; APPENDIX: Architect and Building by Marcus Patton; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; GLOSSARY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-908448-84-9

OCLC:

870598746