Last August I went to Oxford to visit the Tolkien exhibition, and, by a
lucky chance, there was also a feminist exhibition in honour of the
suffrage centenary, called 'Women Who Dared', featuring both suffragette material and original
manuscripts and books by and/or about women in history - writers,
poetesses, scientists, pirates and soldiers. So I'm back to the blog with a pic spam about the exhibition :D! Enjoy :)
Suffrage-related shop goodies :)
And my Oxford haul, featuring both Tolkien and feminism :D:
Women in history represented in the exhibition:
- Sappho, Ancient Greek poetess:
- Lady Ise, 9th-10th Century Japanese poetess:
- Christine de Pizan, the first Medieval European professional female writer (14th-15th Century), with feminist writings:
- Mary Read and Anne Bonny, 17th-18th Century pirates:
- Hannah Snell, 18th Century soldier
- Ada Lovelace, 19th Century mathematician and programming pioneer:
- Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald, 19th-20th Century pathologist:
