Moira Ferguson
Author of First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799
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- 1938
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- female
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- UK
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- UK
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- London, England, UK
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Education
- University of Washington, Seattle (MA, PhD)
University of London, Birkbeck College (BA) - Occupations
- English Professor, New York University, London
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Some of these authors were recognized in their lifetimes, some wrote in the evenings when the workload was done (and we are lucky to have their work), many are obscured by history or are mentioned as footnotes to other writers. But a common theme for all of them is the necessity of educating women to the same level of men, an even-ness of the workload between men and women, and a longing to be taken seriously as writers. Most of the work here are essays, though there are some letters and poems. The most famous of the authors are the Ladies of Llangollen and Mary Wollstonecraft, but all these writers' works should be remembered and re-told, and this is the forum available to do so in the here and now.… (more)