{"product_id":"before-and-after-edith-morley-by-barbara-morris","title":"Before And After: Edith Morley by Barbara Morris","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdith Morley (1875-1964) was a scholar and the main 20th century editor of the works of Henry Crabb Robinson. She was the first woman appointed to a chair at an English university-level institution. Born into a middle-class Victorian family, she hated being a girl, but a forward-thinking home life and a good education enabled her to overcome prejudices and become Professor of English Language at University College, Reading, in 1908. An early feminist with a strong social conscience, she ‘fought… with courage… and passionate sincerity for human rights and freedom.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCovering the vividly described era of her late Victorian childhood, her student days with the increasing freedoms they brought, the early feminist movement, the growing pains of a new university and, much later, the traumas endured by refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, this absorbing memoir brings alive a very different era, one foundational to the freedoms we enjoy today. Intended to ‘relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century’, Edith Morley’s 1944 memoir,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBefore and After\u003c\/i\u003e, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdith Morley \u003c\/strong\u003eedited by\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarbara Morris\u003c\/strong\u003e. Paperback, 210 x 135 mm, 208 pages, May 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reading Museum Online Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45253945655362,"sku":"xhe1790030612102","price":9.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/6784\/3394\/files\/before-and-after-edith-morley-by-barbara-morris_1.jpg?v=1790030617","url":"https:\/\/browdefine.shop\/products\/before-and-after-edith-morley-by-barbara-morris","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}