Pioneering women: academics and classics
Nikita Gill, Francesca Wade, Sandeep Parmar and Victoria Leonard talk goddesses, classics and the careers of Jane Harrison and LSE's Eileen Power. Shahidha Bari presents.
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: /programmes/b0831fpk
and she also contributes to a Radio 3 series about the artistic figure Arthur Cravan here /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 /programmes/b08rsrlt
Classicist Natalie Haynes discusses Women Finding a Voice with podcaster Deborah Frances White in this discussion /programmes/m0000bd6
New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck discusses attitudes towards Victorian women in education in this Essay
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Producer: Karl Bos
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