The Times Great Women's Lives (eBook)

A Celebration in Obituaries

Sue Corbett (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 2. Auflage
480 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6234-6 (ISBN)

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This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural and emotional journey over the best part of two centuries. The anthology starts with the obituary of 91-year-old pioneering mathematician and scientist Mary Somerville (d. 1872) and concludes with that of 110-year-old concert pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer (d. 2014). In between come a formidable trio of later scientists: the discoverer of radium Marie Curie; the unsung heroine of DNA, Rosalind Franklin; and the only British woman to win a Nobel Prize for science, Dorothy Hodgkin. Plus a further quintet of great pianists: Clara Schumann, Myra Hess, Eileen Joyce, Tatiana Nikolayeva and Moura Lympany. Among campaigners, there is nursing reformer Florence Nightingale (d. 1910), along with suffragists Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst (d. 1928, 1958 and 1960), the 20th century's best-known promoter of contraception (Marie Stopes, d. 1958), civil rights worker Rosa Parks (d. 2005), founder of the hospice movement Cicely Saunders (d. 2005), anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman (d. 2009) and Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai (d. 2011). Interspersed are women prime ministers from Golda Meir of Israel (d. 1978) to Margaret Thatcher (d. 2013); actresses from Sarah Bernhardt (d. 1923) to Marilyn Monroe (d. 1962) and Elizabeth Taylor (d. 2011); novelists from George Eliot (d. 1880) to Doris Lessing (d. 2013); singers from Jenny Lind (d. 1887) to Joan Sutherland (d. 2010); plus aviators, a mountaineer, a Channel swimmer, war correspondents, ballerinas, sportswomen, botanists, US first ladies, iconic members of the British royal family, and more.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2014
• Vorwort: Lucy Worsley
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Alice Herz-Sommer • Alison Hargreaves • Amelia Earhart • Amy Johnson • Anna Pavlova • Barbara McClintock • Baroness Burdett-Coutts • Baroness Castle of Blackburn • Baroness Ryder of Warsaw • Baroness Thatcher • Benazir Bhutto • Beryl Markham • Bette Davis • Brigadier Anne Field|Amy Winehouse • Cecil Woodham-Smith • Christina Rossetti|Clara Schumann • “Coco” Chanel • Countess Mountbatten of Burma • Countess of Longford • Dame Agatha Christie • Dame Alicia Markova • Dame Anne McLaren • Dame Barbara Hepworth • Dame Caroline Haslett • Dame Christabel Pankhurst|Rosalind Franklin • Dame Cicely Saunders • |Dame Edith Evans • Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf • Dame Elizabeth Taylor • Dame Ellen Terry|Dame Millicent Fawcett • Dame Freya Stark • Dame Gracie Fields • Dame Iris Murdoch • Dame Joan Sutherland • Dame Kathleen Lonsdale • Dame Margot Fonteyn|Eileen Joyce • Dame Miriam Rothschild • Dame Moura Lympany • Dame Muriel Spark • Dame Myra Hess • Dame Nellie Melba • Dame Ninette de Valois • Dame Peggy Ashcroft • Dame Rebecca West • Dame Sybil Thorndike • Diana • Doris Lessing • Dorothea Beale • Dorothy Hodgkin • Dorothy L. Sayers • Dusty Springfield • Eleanor Roosevelt • Elizabeth • Elizabeth Anscombe • Elizabeth David • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson • Ellen Wilkinson • Emily Davies • Emmeline Pankhurst • Enid Blyton • Eva Perón • Feminism • feminist history • Florence Nightingale • Foreword by Lucy Worsley • Frances Mary Buss • George Eliot • Gertrude Bell • Gertrude Jekyll • Ginger Rogers • Golda Meir • great women • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Harriet Martineau • helen suzman • Indira Gandhi • Introduction by Sue Corbett • Jacqueline du Pré • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Janis Joplin • Jeane Kirkpatrick • Jenny Lind • Joan Crawford • Joan Littlewood • Josephine Butler • Katharine Graham • Katharine Hepburn|Gertrude Ederle • Lady Randolph Churchill • Laura Ashley • Lilian Baylis • Lillian Hellman • Margaret Bondfield • Maria Callas • Maria Montessori • Marian Anderson • Marie Colvin • Marie Curie • Marie Stopes • Marilyn Monroe • Marlene Dietrich • Martha Gellhorn • Mary Somerville • mary sommerville • Mavis Batey • Mother Teresa|Joyce Wethered • Nadia Boulanger • Nancy • Obituaries • Octavia Hill • Odette Hallowes • Pat Smythe • Princess of Wales • Professor Daphne Jackson • Professor Dorothy Garrod|Dame Adeline Genée • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother • Rosa Bonheur • Rosa Parks • Sarah Bernhardt • Shirley Becke • Shirley Temple • Simone de Beauvoir • Sunday Times • Suzanne Lenglen • Sylvia Pankhurst • sylvia pankhurst, marie stopes, rosa parks, cicely saundes, helen suzman, wangari maathai, golda meir, margaret thatcher, sarah bernhardt, marilyn monroe, elizabeth taylor, george eliot, doris lessing, jenny lind, joan sutherland, aviatrix, channel swimmer, war correspondents, ballerinas, botanists • Tatiana Nikolayeva • The Times • US first ladies, british royal family members • Virginia Woolf • Viscountess Astor • Wangari Maathai • Women • Women in History • Women's history • women's history, women in history • women, women's history, women in history, A Celebration in Obituaries, mary somerville, alice herz-sommer, marie curie, rosalind franklin, dorothy hodgkin, clara schumann, myra hess, eileen joyce, tatianan nikolayeva, moura lympany, florence nightingale, emmeline pankhurst, christabel pankhurst
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6234-8 / 0750962348
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6234-6 / 9780750962346