Shin-Kickers From History
From the Archives–Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Sara Catterall
Another post from the past! *** Sara Catterall and I have been following each other around the internet since we met as reviewers for Shelf Awareness, a shockingly long time ago. I’ve been looking forward to her biography of Amelia Bloomer ever since she began posting about it. As you’ll see below, bloomers were only…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Kate Moore
Kate Moore is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls, which won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best History, was voted U.S. librarians’ favourite nonfiction book of 2017, and was named a Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018 by the American Library Association. A British writer based near Cambridge,…
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Mary Elizabeth Garrett, the “Friday Evening” Group, and Coercive Philanthropy
In the course of researching my last blog post, I discovered Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915), the woman who founded and led the Women’s Medical Fund Committee, which raised the money that allowed the Johns Hopkins University medical school to open, and forced the school to admit women and to improve the quality of medical education.…
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