Anne Summers

Biographic Data

ID3603543
NAMEAnne Summers
GIVEN NAMESAnne
FAMILY NAMESummers
SIGNATURESUMMERS A
AFFILIATIONSBritish Library
ORCID0000-0001-7147-1246
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Historic Failures, Failures of History: Necessitous Gentlewomen' Reconsidered

    Open AccessAnne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2025

    A chance encounter with the records of a local charity has re-opened the question of middle-class female poverty and dependence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in ways which seem to have been ignored by many historians. Studies on topics ranging from financial speculation to the expansion of education for women have often left unexplored the extent of middle-class precarity, and the wreckage left in the wake of the myth of the male 'pr…

  • Belinda Bozzoli (1945-2020)

    Open AccessAnne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2022

    Belinda Bozzoli was born in Johannesburg in December 1945. After graduating with a BA in political science and geography and BA Honours in African Studies (first class) at Witwatersrand University, she studied for an MA in African Studies and Political Science and a DPhil at the University of Sussex. Her thesis title was ‘The roots of hegemony: ideology, interests and the legitimation of South African capitalism, 1890-1940’. Together with her hus…

  • Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Charity, Community and Religion, 1830–1880

    Anne SummersARTICLECultural and Social History2021

    Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Charity, Community and Religion, 1830–1880." Cultural and Social History, 18(5), pp. 729–730

  • Lost in translation? Wizo and international feminism c.1920–1940

    Anne SummersARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2021References: 4

    WIZO's founders in 1920 included several Anglo-Jewish feminists and former suffragists. The organisation supported the female franchise in the Jewish institutions of Mandate Palestine, but incorporated many, sometimes conflicting, approaches to developing women's roles. Attempting mass membership in hopes of influencing the male-dominated world Zionist movement, WIZO represented women with widely differing views, both within and between national …

  • Susan Amaryllis Watson Leather (1947-2015)

    Open AccessAnne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2019

    Sue Bullock, as she was known to the founding editors of HWJ, was the Journal’s first business manager. In 1975 we had taken the decision to self-publish; our printers were Titus Wilson of Kendal, and Sue’s calm grasp of finance and what would now be called project management made her an invaluable as well as a much-loved member of the editorial collective. Her initial connection with the History Workshop movement was through Ruskin, where her pa…

  • Visual landscapes and sensual settings in Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm

    Anne SummersARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2018References: 5

    Love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor, love-yielding, love-climbers, and the climbing sap,Arms and hands of love—lips of love—phallic thumb of love—breasts of love—bellies, pressed and glued togethe

  • Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940: Living with Difference

    Open AccessAnne SummersBOOKChristian and Jewish Women in…2017

  • False Start or Brave Beginning? The Society of Jews and Christians, 1924–1944

    Open AccessAnne SummersARTICLEThe Journal of Ecclesiastical…2014

    The Society of Jews and Christians drew on relationships formed before 1918 in urban social work, the suffrage campaign and pacifist organisations. Its career was much less smooth than that of its successor, the Council of Christians and Jews, because Liberal Judaism's founding role largely antagonised the Orthodox Jewish mainstream, and Christian affiliates sometimes failed to observe the agreement not to proselytise. This paper discusses the in…

  • Nursing before Nightingale, 1815–1899 (review)

    Anne SummersARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2012

    Reviewed by: Nursing before Nightingale, 1815–1899 Anne Summers Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden. Nursing before Nightingale, 1815–1899. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. xxi + 219 pp. Ill. $119.95 (978-1-4094-2313-3). This densely researched work deals with London hospital nursing in the nineteenth century and takes issue with the bulk of nursing historiography, arguing that it exaggerates the importance of Florence Nightingale’s reforms; wrongly em…

  • Gender, Religion and an Immigrant Minority: Jewish women and the suffrage movement in Britainc.1900-1920

    Anne SummersARTICLEWomen s History Review2012

    Middle- and upper-class Jewish women enjoyed less equality within their faith communities than Christian counterparts. They were represented in every strand of the suffrage movement, and in 1912 formed the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage (JLWS), modelled on similar Christian leagues. A study of the origins of the JLWS, and its relations with parallel organisations, shows religious difference to have been no barrier, and even conducive to, cross-…

  • Woman in her Place: Essays on women in pre-industrial society in honour of Mary Prior

    Anne Summers, Anne LaurenceARTICLEWomen s History Review2010

  • Introduction: The International Abolitionist Federation

    Anne SummersARTICLEWomen s History Review2008

    Between September 2004 and September 2007, a generous grant from the Leverhulme Trust enabled The Women’s Library to sponsor a research project on the international networks of Josephine Butler. A listing was compiled of her and her colleagues’ manuscript letters in six European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands. This is to be found on The Women’s Library website, at http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomensli…

  • Which Women? What Europe? Josephine Butler and the International Abolitionist Federation

    Anne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2006Cited by: 2

    Josephine Butler's campaigns against the state regulation of prostitution have been studied almost exclusively in the anglophone and imperial context. Research on the International Abolitionist Federation, which she founded in 1875 and supported until her death in 1906, places these campaigns in a new perspective, demonstrating the importance she attached to the issue in Europe. This article reports on findings at the half-way stage of a project …

  • Gaps in the Record: Hidden Internationalisms

    Anne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2001

    The true subtitle of this lecture is a question: why was George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion first produced in German, in Vienna? And the lecture as a whole is about questions that I can't answer. It is less about gaps in the material record - that is to say, the physical existence of documentation (though it touches on this issue) - than it is about an absence in historical writing: an absence of history, of narrative, that crosses barriers of natio…

  • The Constitution Violated: The Female Body and the Female Subject in the Campaigns of Josephine Butler

    Anne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal1999

    A1 Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, UK

  • Val Taylor 1946-1996

    Anne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal1997

  • Damned Whores and God's Police

    Open AccessA Mcgrath, Anne Summers et al.ARTICLELabour History1997

  • Short Notices

    Anne SummersARTICLESocial History of Medicine1995

    Short Notices Get access Canadian Bulletin of Medical Library/Bulletin canadien d'historie de la médecine ANNE SUMMERS ANNE SUMMERS British Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 532-b–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/8.3.532-b Published: 01 December 1995

  • In a few years we shall none of us that now take care of them be here: Philanthropy and the State in the Thinking of Elizabeth Fry

    Open AccessAnne SummersARTICLEHistorical Research1994References: 1

    Journal Article ‘In a few years we shall none of us that now take care of them be here’: Philanthropy and the State in the Thinking of Elizabeth Fry Get access Anne Summers Anne Summers Department of Manuscripts, British Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 67, Issue 163, June 1994, Pages 134–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1994.tb01820.x Published: 12 October 2007

  • Short Notices

    Anne SummersARTICLESocial History of Medicine1992

    Short Notices Get access Elizabeth Norman, Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. x + 211. $14.95. ISBN 0-8122-1317-3. ANNE SUMMERS ANNE SUMMERS British Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 1992, Page 366, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/5.2.366 Published: 0…

  • Angels and Citizens, British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914

    Evelyne Diebolt, Anne SummersARTICLELe Mouvement social1992

  • Speaking for women? Comments on paper by Hester Eisenstein

    Anne SummersARTICLEAustralian Feminist Studies1991

  • Cherwell School

    Anne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal1991

    Journal Article CHERWELL SCHOOL Get access ANNE SUMMERS ANNE SUMMERS Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 230-b–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.230-b Published: 01 March 1991

  • The Correspondents of Havelock Ellis

    Anne SummersARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal1991Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Correspondents of Havelock Ellis Get access Anne Summers Anne Summers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1991, Pages 167–183, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/32.1.167 Published: 01 October 1991

  • Short notices

    T Dean, Mary Prior et al.ARTICLESocial History1990

    Christopher F. Black, Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century (1989), xiv + 321 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Ralph Houlbrooke, English Family Life, 1576–1716: An Anthology from Diaries (1988), xiv + 268 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £14.95). Judith Moore, A Zeal for Responsibility: The Struggle for Professional Nursing in Victorian England, 1868–1883 (1988), xvii + 214 (University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, $23.00…