Faith, Duty, and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and their Circle, 1820–1960

ISBN-13: 9780521861557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 278 str.

Cambridge) Gill Sutherland (Newnham College

Opis

This illustrated study tells the tale of a middle-class English family's fortunes. The experiences of two women--Anne Jemima Clough and her niece, Blanche Athena Clough--reveal the particular vulnerability of middle-class women to economic changes. As first and fourth principals of Newnham College, Cambridge, their lives and work enact the revolution in women's education which allowed women to finally enter professional occupations and construct their own economic lifelines. Anne Jemima's brother and Blanche Athena's father was the poet, Arthur Hugh Clough, who lost his Christian faith painfully and publicly at the end of the 1840s.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'fascinating… Gillian Sutherland brings out skilfully the different temperaments and characters of her two subjects… Based on meticulous scholarship, her book can also beguile the reader with lively vignettes of Victorian and Edwardian domestic life.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Family trees; Introduction; 1. Childhood and Charleston; 2. 'A land...with strong foes beset'; 3. Confirming a vocation; 4. Family duty; 5. The beginnings of Newnham; 6. Enter Blanche Athena Clough; 7. 'An ought which has to be reckoned with'; 8. Re-grouping; 9. War and its consequences; 10. Salvage operations; 11. Retirement; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.