Dora Marsden

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Standard Name: Marsden, Dora
Birth Name: Dora Marsden
Following a notorious suffrage career, DM founded, edited, and wrote for the highly influential journals The Freewoman, The New Freewoman, and The Egoist. She then wrote several books on the intersections among philosophy, religion, and science. Repeating the pattern of her lifetime, much of the critical attention accorded to Marsden in recent decades has focussed primarily on her early feminist activities and associations, rather than her pursuits in The Egoist or her monographs.
Black and white photograph of Dora Marsden, shown from the shoulders up, with her body turned away from the camera and her face turned to face the viewer. She is wearing a light high-necked dress, with a dark collar. Her hair is dark and pulled into a bun on either side of her head.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing James Joyce
The Egoist serialised JJ 's autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: the serialisation began during the brief editorship of Dora Marsden .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Parker, Alan. James Joyce: A Bibliography of His Writings, Critical Material, and Miscellanea. F. W. Faxon.
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Friends, Associates Storm Jameson
SJ moved in various creative circles as she began to write, review, and undertake other literary work. She first met Dora Marsden in 1913: Marsden was editor of the Egoist and Jameson wrote a number...
Textual Features H. D.
This issue opened with an editorial by Dora Marsden . It contained poetry by Aldington, HD, F. S. Flint , D. H. Lawrence , Marianne Moore , and May Sinclair and prose articles giving the...
Violence Mary Gawthorpe
MG , who was involved with Dora Marsden in impeding Winston Churchill 's election rallies in Southport, received grave internal injuries when she was struck by one of the stewards.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge.
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Author summary Mary Gawthorpe
MG , from a working-class family with a tradition of self-education, became a remarkable speaker and writer on behalf of women's suffrage. She co-edited The Freewoman, working somewhat uneasily with Dora Marsden . Her...
politics Mary Gawthorpe
One of her many arrests (this one together with Dora Marsden and Rona Robinson ) came at Victoria University, Manchester , on 4 October 1909, when they faced the prospect of prison and force-feeding, though...
Employer Mary Gawthorpe
She then accepted Dora Marsden 's offer of a position as co-editor on The Freewoman, although she had turned down Marsden's first suggestion on the grounds that she wanted to finish [her] work in...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
MG 's friendship with Dora Marsden ended in a breach. With Sylvia Pankhurst , too, her relationship later came to grief, but this was after a particularly close period following the birth of Sylvia's son...
Textual Production Mary Gawthorpe
MG 's name appeared as co-editor (after somewhat fraught negotiations with Dora Marsden ) on The Freewoman, whose first issue appeared on 23 November 1911.

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