Sybil Oldfield

Standard Name: Oldfield, Sybil

Connections

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Literary responses Flora Macdonald Mayor
Few noticed the work when it came out, and the author herself did not seem to like her first publication in later years.
Keith, Rhonda. British Novelists 1890-1929: Modernists. Editor Staley, Thomas F., Gale Research Company, 1985, pp. 169-71.
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It was, nonetheless, the book that drew her biographer Sybil Oldfield
Literary responses Flora Macdonald Mayor
Rediscovery of FMM was fostered by Sybil Oldfield , who in 1984 published an extensive account of Mayor's life and works (which she narrated in parallel with those of Mayor's contemporary Mary Sheepshanks ). During...

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Bruley, Sue. “A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars”. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945, edited by Sybil Oldfield, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 40-53.
Hall, Lesley. “Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honor, and Many More: Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science, 1914-1945”. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945, edited by Sybil Oldfield, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 192-0.
Oldfield, Sybil. Spinsters of This Parish: The Life and Times of FM Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks. Virago, 1984.
Edwards, Elizabeth. “The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914-1945”. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945, edited by Sybil Oldfield, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 54-67.
Oldfield, Sybil, editor. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945. Taylor and Francis, 1994.