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Higher education and state --- Education, Higher --- Universities and colleges --- History --- History. --- Dawkins, John, --- Influence. --- University of Sydney

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This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- English literature --- Literature --- History --- cultuur --- emancipatie --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- gender --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Engelse literatuur --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Simcox, E. --- Hays, Mary --- Landon, Letitia --- Norton, Caroline --- Gaskell, Elizabeth --- Dixie, Florence --- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett --- Morgan, Sydney Owenson --- Montagu, Mary Wortley --- Martineau, Harriet --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Hemans, Felicia --- Eliot, George --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland

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This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre- World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and Pygmalion, and to understand that his major political work, 1928’s The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era’s leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of Beatrice Webb’s famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 – a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State – this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.

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