Thanks for typing : remembering forgotten women in history /

"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 throu...

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Other Authors: Dresvina, Juliana (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Edition:First edition
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 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 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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650 0 |a Sex discrimination against women  |x History 
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