Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. University of Iowa Press, 2005.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Djuna Barnes | DB
's paternal grandmother, Zadel Barnes
, was a successful journalist, novelist, and poet, whose work appeared regularly in Harper's Bazaar and the Pall Mall Gazette. She travelled to England in the 1880s with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Ormiston Chant | In 1888, at the first meeting of the International Council of Women
, LOC
identified herself as a grandniece of Edmund Burke
, but it is possible that she was speaking figuratively rather than literally. Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. University of Iowa Press, 2005. 23, 25 “Horbury Chapel, Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, Kensington”. AIM25. London Metropolitan Archives, Jan.–Mar. 2009. |
Occupation | Pandita Ramabai | Her time in the USA was largely spent fundraising: on 13 December 1887 she founded the Ramabai Association
to fund the creation of a home that would educate young, high-caste widows in Bombay(now Mumbai)... |
politics | Agnes Maule Machar | A maternal feminist, AMM
worked with the National Council of Women
and was the first life member of the International Council of Women
. 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, 1990. Gerson, Carole, editor. Canada’s Early Women Writers. http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/5724. 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, 1990. |
Textual Production | Josephine Butler | In 1888 JB
published Mrs. Butler's Appeal to the Women of America, her address to the International Council of Women
, accompanied by a brief theatrical piece, The New Godiva: A Dialogue. Butler, Josephine. “The New Godiva. A Dialogue, 1888”. Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project, 1888. |
Travel | Laura Ormiston Chant | As a delegate to the International Council of Women
in Washington, DC, LOC
made her first voyage to North America. Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. University of Iowa Press, 2005. 25 |
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