{"product_id":"before-and-after-reminiscences-of-a-working-life-paperback","title":"Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdith Morley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBarbara Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntended 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, \u003cem\u003eBefore and After\u003c\/em\u003e, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering the vividly described setting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Every woman now working in British universities - or in any other profession for that matter - will recognise Edith Morley's story ... Quite simply, she took on the establishment, as feminists have done ever since.' From the Foreword by Professor Mary Beard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712779915327,"sku":"9781909747166","price":25.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1bdd854e3d00ce6267c0a525a1998ba4.webp?v=1765062492","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/before-and-after-reminiscences-of-a-working-life-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}