Edith Morley was appointed Professor of English Language at Reading University in 1908 after a considerable struggle over her status. She was also a badge-wearing member of the Women’s Social and Political Union. As she charts in her memoir, Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life, she was also heavily involved in initiatives to support refugees
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Suzanne Karpelès and Multiple Femininities
Encountering Suzanne Karpelès: Multiple Femininities, Buddhism and the French “Civilising Mission” draws on published material, correspondence and visual sources to discuss diverse configurations of femininities and their relation to a range of educative contexts in which Suzanne Karpelès engaged internationally during the 1930s as the only French woman to attain her degree of status in
Suzanne Karpelès: Entangling the Human and the Non-human
Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969): Entangling the Human and the Non-human in Temporalities of Stasis and Change analyses intra-actions between objects, bodies, discourses and materials in the work of Suzanne Karpelès, the first woman graduate of the Ècole des langues orientales of the Ècole pratique des Haute Études in Paris and the first female member of the
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