A crater on the planet Mercury is named Maria de Dominici. Born in
1645, she was the first established Maltese woman artist. She, and
other women in Maltese history, are little known about. But Malta
is much more than Knights of St John and Second World War courage.
This book tells their story through the waves of women who arrived
in the archipelago of Malta and Gozo, starting with Sicilian
farmers 7,000 years ago, and ranging through Phoenician, Roman, and
Arab times, until women of European extraction, but speaking an
Arabic-influenced language, established a Maltese identity. Best
known of those who have made their mark are, perhaps, Mabel
Strickland, newspaper proprietor, and Agatha Barbara, in 1982 first
woman president of the independent Republic of Malta. But the lives
of less-known women of all classes who flourished in the islands
over the centuries have also been reconstructed here, from Betta
Caloiro, accused of witchcraft, who died aged 89 in the
Inquisitor's prison, to the Marchesa Bettina Dorell, with her grand
palazzo at Gudja. Itineraries take the reader to those places.
British women, such as Emma Hamilton, Hester Stanhope, Florence
Nightingale and Vera Brittain, began arriving in Malta in 1800,
during and after French Revolutionary occupation; and many settled
there temporarily or permanently, from governors' wives dispensing
charity to shopkeepers, hoteliers and teachers. As often as
possible, the history of women in Malta and the places in which
they had their being are told and described through the writing of
women: archaeologists, historians, travellers, novelists and poets.
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