Thanks for typing : remembering forgotten women in history / edited by Juliana Dresvina.

Other author Dresvina, Juliana, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationLondon, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Copyright Date©2021
Description1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Editor's Introduction -- Note -- Part 1: Secretaries and Editors -- Chapter 1: M.E. Fitzgerald: Office Manager to Modernism -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Secretary and Her Professor: Alli Hytti and L.A. Puntila -- From Stray to Secretary -- Partners in management -- 'Our Great Work' -- Fealty -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Jumped-up Typists: Two Guardians of the Flame -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Thanks for Penguin: Women, Invisible Labour and Publishing in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Contents Eunice Frost (1914-1998) -- Wives, Secretaries and Administrators -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Politicians and Activists -- Chapter 5: Backing the Family: Servilia between the Murder of Caesar and the Battle of Philippi -- Background -- Topics -- Case Studies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: A Flaming Soul: Maissi Erkko Fighting for Women, Finland and Family Legacy -- An Islander -- An Optimistic Year of Engagement -- Troubled Times -- Exile -- Women's Rights Movement -- Fight for the Family Legacy -- An Abandoned Widow -- The Fading Flame -- Note
Contents Chapter 9: Jeanne de Montbaston: An Illuminating Woman -- Jeanne and Richard in the Records -- Richard as the Anonymous Illuminator? -- Invisible Women -- A Medieval Selfie? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Judith Leyster: The Artist Vanishes -- The Young Prodigy -- The Disappearing Woman Artist -- The Re-Emerging Master -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Textiles Rubbing Us the Wrong Way: A Tour of Karin Bergöö Larsson's Acts of Fibre Resistance -- Karin Bergöö Larsson -- The Library Cloth -- The Rose of Love -- Carl's Gaze -- Two Thinkers: John Ruskin and Ellen Key -- Veiling Hands
Contents Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Canvases in the Attic: Four Generations of the Lane Poole Women -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part 4: Mothers and Others -- Chapter 13: Haunting Augustine: St Monnica as Mother and Interlocutor -- Such a Good Little Girl: Drunk and Abused -- My Mother Was a Saint, a Cook and a Philosopher -- Ghost Stories: The Death of St Monnica -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14: 'The Typist Home at Teatime': Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot's Role in Shaping T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) -- A Troubled Marriage Yet Successful Literary Partnership
Abstract "As the #ThanksforTyping movement has shown, anonymous women working to support the work of their male relations and colleagues has been, and often still is, a universal phenomenon. These essays show just how long intelligent and determined women have been side-lined, ignored or forgotten throughout history. From the mother of the poet Philip Larkin to the wife of Ghana's first president, this book uncovers the uncredited contributions of wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2021).
Issued in other formPrint version: Thanks for typing. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350150065
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