Cunningham, Gail. The New Woman and the Victorian Novel. Macmillan, 1978.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Ménie Muriel Dowie | Around this time, MMD
also met Thomas Hardy
. “19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers. Glasgow Herald 301 (17 Dec 1894): 7 |
| Leisure and Society | Mona Caird | As well as the Society of Authors
, MC
belonged to the feminist Pioneer Club
. The Men and Women's Club
, however, felt her too radical and unpredictable to be desirable as a member... |
| Leisure and Society | Sarah Grand | SG
now joined the Pioneer Club
(founded by temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd
in 1892), which she called a club of women engaged in philanthropic pursuits, moral and religious. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. “Introduction; Chronology”. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2, edited by Stephanie Forward, Routledge, 2000, pp. 1 - 12; 13. 4 |
| Occupation | Sarah Grand | SG
began giving public lectures this year, the year after publishing her ground-breaking novel on syphilis, The Heavenly Twins. She lectured at the Pioneer Club
, the Sunday Lecture Society
(at St George's Hall... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She was also a member of the London-based Writers' Club
, the Women's Institute
—which embraced an educational programme of appalling size, to the frivolous mind—and the Pioneer Club
, which counted IOF
,... |
| Textual Production | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
gave her first public speech when she decided to support striking female weavers in Leeds in October 1888. Despite her nervousness—she sometimes characterized herself as terrified by the faces gazing at me Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 72 |
Timeline
1892: Temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton...
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1892
Temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd
(1847-1897) founded the Pioneer Club
in London to bring together like-minded women and provide them with a social outlet other than marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Massingberd
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