Before and After: Reminiscence of a Working Life - Softcover

Edith Morley; Barbara Morris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909747165 ISBN 13: 9781909747166

Publisher: Two Rivers Press, 2016

Synopsis

Edith Morley (1875-1964) was a scholar and the main 20th century editor of the works of Henry Crabb Robinson. She was the first woman appointed to a chair at an English university-level institution.

Born into a middle-class Victorian family, she hated being a girl, but a forward-thinking home life and a good education enabled her to overcome prejudices and become Professor of English Language at University College, Reading, in 1908. An early feminist with a strong social conscience, she fought... with courage... and passionate sincerity for human rights and freedom.

Covering the vividly described era of her late Victorian childhood, her student days with the increasing freedoms they brought, the early feminist movement, the growing pains of a new university and, much later, the traumas endured by refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, this absorbing memoir brings alive a very different era, one foundational to the freedoms we enjoy today.

Intended to relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century , Edith Morley s 1944 memoir, Before and After, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university.

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About the Author

In 1908, Edith Morley was appointed Professor of English Language at University College, Reading, thereby becoming the first woman appointed to a chair at an English university-level institution. She held this post until 1940. In 1950, she was awarded an MBE, an honor awarded for her work setting up the Reading Refugee Committee and assisting Belgian Jewish refugees in World War II.

Edition details

• Publisher: Two Rivers Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909747165
• ISBN 13: 9781909747166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Barbara Morris