As women’s university participation expanded rapidly in the first decade of the twentieth century, two best friends at the Queen’s University Belfast nursed scholarly ambitions. Helen Waddell, budding feminist literary critic, and Maude Clarke, future Irish historian, would become famous medievalists. Waddell’s progress was stymied by her stepmother’s insistence on family duty and by academic misogyny; Clarke’s father instead cleared her way. This joint biography intertwines the story of their friendship with their up-to-date education, their shifting research interests and the obstacles and opportunities that faced them as women seeking academic careers. It traces Waddell’s evolution into an independent scholar, creative writer and translator of medieval Latin, and Clarke’s career as an influential Oxford don, training a whole generation of high-achieving women academics. The volume also publishes the surviving chapters of Waddell’s ‘Women in the Drama before Shakespeare’ (1912-19), an example of early feminist literary criticism, and Clarke’s searching, self-reflective notes on historiography, written c. 1930.
People
Places
Times
Helen Waddell and Maude Clarke
Irishwomen, friends, and scholars
Jennifer FitzGerald
Published
2011
by
Peter Lang
in
New York
.
Written in English.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Queen's undergraduates | ||
| Postgraduate students | ||
| Opportunity and obstacle | ||
| Ambition | ||
| Success | ||
| Achievement | ||
| Appendix 1: Helen Waddell, woman in the drama before Shakespeare | ||
| Appendix 2: Maude Violet Clarke, historiographical notes | ||
| Bibliography | ||
| Index. |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
940.1072/0252, B |
Library of Congress |
D116.7.W34 F57 2011 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
p. cm. |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL25115975M |
ISBN 13 |
9783034307123 |
LC Control Number |
2011046853 |
History Created November 30, 2011 · 2 revisions
| April 4, 2012 | Edited by 76.176.223.83 | I am the author; I added the synopsis, people, |
| November 30, 2011 | Created by LC Bot | import new book |