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Today: a new THREAD
of sheroes: women who disappeared into their menfolk. 1st Dorothy Livesey Reynolds, a key geologist who worked w/ her husband at Edinburgh Uni but wasn't paid as it was deemed 'inappropriate' WHAT? She won a Lyell medal & was 1st female member of @news_RSE /1
of sheroes: women who disappeared into their menfolk. 1st Dorothy Livesey Reynolds, a key geologist who worked w/ her husband at Edinburgh Uni but wasn't paid as it was deemed 'inappropriate' WHAT? She won a Lyell medal & was 1st female member of @news_RSE /1
Mathematicians & sisters Jane & Flora Sang pioneered work on logarithmic tables originally credited to this guy Edward (their dad) It wasn't until 1874 they were honoured by @news_RSE as the originators. So many women disappear into their relations' biographies. Sheesh! /2
Next a group of women: the Bondagers, coerced into unpaid labour they often were offered as a 'bonus' to their husband's paid work - that continued in farming communities into the 20th century. Sue Glover wrote a play about them. The 2nd pic is the cast from @lyceumtheatre
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Y'all know this lady cos I tweeted about her recently. William Wallace's mother = Lady Margaret Crawford but this is the monument to her at Dunfermline Abbey. I always get cross cos SHE HAD A NAME! In fairness, they hope to do something about this monument but still. Bah! /4
This is fierce Shetlander, Mrs Edwin Muir = Agnes Neill Scott AKA Willa Muir translated Kafka's work with Edwin (tho she noted he 'only helped') Willa, I believe you! .5
Mrs Charles Rennie Mackintosh = Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh Artist in her own right whose work was revered by her husband. 'Margaret has genius,' he wrote, 'I have only talent' Probs true, Charlie. That rose motif we all love in his work came from Margaret./6
Henrietta Liston, who I will be writing about in detail soon (watch this space) married to Sir Robert Liston - British diplomat. She was a botanist & diarist. Her papers are in @natlibscot. She is 1 of the most endearing voices I've found in the archive. Pretty much forgotten. /7
Mrs Aneurin Bevan = Jennie Lee, an MP and founder of the Open University. Brilliant in her own right and memorialised a wee bit, but hey, not enough considering all the good she did, right? /8
Thanks for reading my thread of women who were eclipsed by their men. It cd be a lot longer but yes, these women and loads more amazing foremothers are all in my book, Where are the Women? Walk this way: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/publications/publication/?publicationid=55960f63-3bd9-48e7-a2c9-aa6200d4f55c#:~:text=The%20Old%20Lady%20of%20Hoy,telling%20their%20often%20unknown%20stories.
And please feel free to add more lasses eclipsed by their menfolk, cos that's the glory of threads - everyone gets to join in too....
