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Before and After - Reminiscences of a Working Life (Paperback)
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Before and After - Reminiscences of a Working Life (Paperback)
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Intended to 'relate my experiences to the background of my period
and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last
quarter of the nineteenth century', Edith Morley's 1944 memoir,
Before and After, was written a few years after retiring as the
first female professor at an English university. Born into a
middle-class Victorian family, she hated being a girl, but a
forward-thinking home life and a good education enabled her to
overcome prejudices and become Professor of English Language at
University College, Reading, in 1908. An early feminist with a
strong social conscience, she 'fought...with courage...and
passionate sincerity for human rights and freedom.' Covering the
vividly described setting of her late Victorian childhood, her
student days with the increasing freedoms they brought, the early
feminist movement, the growing pains of a new university and, much
later, the traumas endured by refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, this
absorbing memoir brings alive a very different era, one
foundational to the freedoms we enjoy today.
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