Royden, Maude. Women at the World’s Crossroads. Woman’s Press.
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Textual Production | Maude Royden | The Woman's Press
published MR
's Women at the World's Crossroads, a volume of essays given as speeches the seventh national convention of the Young Women's Christian Association
s of the USA. Royden, Maude. Women at the World’s Crossroads. Woman’s Press. title-page and prelims Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 219 |
Textual Features | Susan Miles | Religion can hardly be separated here from social issues, particularly those of class and female sexuality. Flora, leaving her sanctuary in the Delmer home, says indignantly that they took her in because they cared about... |
Publishing | Frances Ridley Havergal | That same year she contributed several articles to publications associated with the Young Women's Christian Association
, The Home Friend and Silver Bells. She also published an anonymous tract entitled Such a Blessing.... |
Performance of text | Una Marson | UM
mounted a production of her own play, At What a Price, at the YWCA
hostel in Great Russell Street, London, using members of the League of Coloured Peoples
as performers. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 53 |
Occupation | Angela Brazil | AB
remained silent about her brief foray into paid work, as a governess. Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane. 54n |
Occupation | Angela Brazil | She also frequented Coventry girls' schools. Benefactions came together with conservation. In 1922 she bought, as a reserve for seagulls and primroses, a stretch of coast and cliffs between Polperro and Talland that was likely... |
Occupation | Angela Brazil | When much of Coventry was flattened by bombs on 14-15 November 1940, Amy and Angela worked all day clearing up damage at the burnt-out YWCA
building. Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane. 138 |
Literary Setting | Ann Jellicoe | The play, a lively mixture of comedy and absurdism, explores sexual relations within the young bohemian set. Nancy, a seventeen-year-old Northern girl who has just arrived in London, taps on a window to ask directions... |
Dedications | Maude Royden | The convention had been held in Arkansas the same year. MR
dedicated the volume to The Young Women's Christian Association
s in the United States of America. Royden, Maude. Women at the World’s Crossroads. Woman’s Press. prelims |
Cultural formation | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
grew up in a pious Anglican
family, and was later deeply religious herself, as evident in her writings. She developed an interest in the Church Missionary Society
(as well as its Irish counterpart), the... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Maule Machar | AMM
was a social crusader, interested in temperance, combating poverty, labour issues, Canadian nationalism (or Confederation), and women's rights. She wrote that poverty was a source of women's special inequality in the industrial system. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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