Goddesses of academia

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Nikita Gill on goddesses, Sandeep Parmar on Hope Mirlees, Francesca Wade looks at the careers of classicist Jane Harrison and LSE's Eileen Power and Victorian Leonard looks at attempts to write more women back into the story of classics. Shahidha Bari presents.

Francesa Wade has written a new book called Square Haunting which traces the experiences of five women who lived in Bloomsbury's Mecklenburgh Square: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy L Sayers, HD, Eileen Power and Jane Harrison- tracing ideas about women living independently, how academic institutions them and the way Virginia Woolf's ideas about A Room of One's Own resonate in the lives of these 5 women.

Nikita Gill’s new poetry collection, Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters, retells and re-imagines the untold stories of women characters in Greek mythology.

Victoria Leonard is a founding member of the Women’s Classical Committee https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/

You can listen back to New Generation Thinker and poet Sandeep Parmar’s Sunday Feature on Hope Mirrlees’ Paris here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0831fpk and she also contributes to a Radio 3 series about the artistic figure Arthur Cravan here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0k

Colm Toibin, Bettany Hughes and Paul Cartledge discuss Women's Voices in the Classical World in a Free Thinking discussion from the Hay Festival https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rsrlt

Classicist Natalie Haynes discusses Women Finding a Voice with podcaster Deborah Frances White in this discussion https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000bd6

New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck discusses attitudes towards Victorian women in education in this Essay https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v64pk

Producer: Karl Bos

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0:37.5	Hello, in 1928, Virginia Woolf declared that to write fiction, a woman must have a room of her own.
0:44.6	To make radio, though, you only need to borrow a studio.
0:48.0	Luckily, we have one and some excellent guests to fill it for today's free thinking,
0:52.7	in which we'll be finding out about
0:54.6	Wolfe's lesser-known but equally brilliant contemporaries, classicist Jane Harrison and historian
1:00.2	Eileen Power. Their research shaped the intellectual culture of the early 20th century, so why are
1:06.2	their names so little known now? Modern-day academics, Sandeep Parmar and Victoria Lannid, are here too.
1:13.1	They'll be telling us about their work,
1:14.9	remembering a forgotten female poet
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