Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Olive Schreiner | OS
met Karl Pearson
(later a noted academic and two years younger than herself) at the Men and Women's Club
, which he founded. They became very close friends, attempting to treat each other as... |
Literary responses | Henrietta Müller | According to the minutes of the club, the paper was immediately followed by a lacklustre and desultory discussion which historian Judith R. Walkowitz
attributes to members' struggle to establish a basic vocabulary of sexual desire. Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992. 152 |
politics | Josephine Butler | Judith R. Walkowitz
suggests that the LNA
's political following owed a great deal to the charismatic appeal of Josephine Butler
, whose speeches against the instrumental rape of working women under the acts electrified... |
Reception | Mona Caird | The Daily Telegraph responded with an article headed Is Marriage a Failure?, which brought in about 27,000 letters in response and a parallel surge of letters in the USA in Cosmopolitan (showing, says Heilmann... |
Residence | Mary Catherine Hume | |
Textual Production | Emma Frances Brooke | Pearson had founded the club this same year for serious discussion of progressive issues. Walkowitz, Judith R. “Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women’s Club 1885-1889”. History Workshop Journal, No. 1, pp. 36 -59. 37 |