Maureen Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3982907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9561-2231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A grand day for Congleton
This viewpoint explores the process and narrative of the erection of a statue of Victorian suffragist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) in her home town of Congleton, Cheshire from 2018-2022. The successful fundraising campaign, spearheaded by the Chair and Members of Elizabeth’s Group in Congleton, enabled the redoubtable Wolstenholme Elmy to be ‘rehabilitated’ in the town who had once shunned her for her progressive beliefs – which includ…
In the shadow of the Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM)
The Sheldon Community collaborated with Aston University to undertake the first ever systematic survey into the lived experience of the Church of England Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 (CDM). Criticisms of the CDM have already been well rehearsed, and this research has contributed to the fact that the measure is now believed to be formally slated for replacement. However, the impact of the CDM's flaws on the research participants needs to be unde…
The Rabbi's atheist daughter
During the mid-decades of nineteenth century America few women could be argued to have worked as tirelessly for the emancipation of women as Ernestine Louise Potowska Rose (1810–1892). Born the onl
The perfect equality ofall personsbefore the law
The Personal Rights Association was established in 1871 to watch, restrain and influence legislation ‘in matters affecting the personal rights and liberties of the people’. Though initially its remit was to scrutinise legislation for terms that would be prejudicial to women, this soon extended to criticism of increasing incursions into male freedom. The PRA's membership, which comprised both sexes, included a cohort of male parliamentarians and i…
A Man ‘[a]s Black as the Devil Himself’
The Women's Emancipation Union and Radical‐Feminist Politics in Britain, 1891–99
This paper considers the ideals and activism of the fin de siècle feminist organisation, the Women's Emancipation Union (WEU). Active between 1891 and 1899, the WEU held a prophetic vision of the future and an appraisal of women's subjection more comprehensive than any contemporary feminist group. Members were the first to link the possession by women of their bodily autonomy directly to the acquisition of the parliamentary vote, and thus redefin…
An Impudent Intrusion?' Assessing the Life of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, First-Wave Feminist and Social Reformer (1833-1918)
This article seeks to re‐evaluate the life of first‐wave feminist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy through the lens of her own autobiographical fragments and newly‐discovered material concerning her genealogy and childhood familial circumstances. One of the most significant but under‐researched feminists of her generation, the ‘self’ constructed by Wolstenholme Elmy is one that appears to negate the influences of youthful familial circumstances on her…
Writing suffragette history
On 10 October 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organisation that was to become the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women in Edwardian England. Their militant campaign was led by Emmeline and her eldest daughter, Christabel, the WSPU's Chief Organiser, the two younger Pankhurst daughters, Sylvia and Adela, also becaming active in the movement. While all fou…
Ferox uirtus
Achilles' slaying of Hector and Odysseus' massacre of the suitors link the themes of anger at the close of the Homeric poems with Aeneas' response to Turnus in the last lines of the Aeneid. Karl Galinsky has studied this in detail, but he also introduced briefly the Greek philosophical tradition, as well as Roman legal practice, to justify Aeneas' enraged killing of Turnus as wholly appropriate in these contexts. Michael Putnam has taken issue wi…
Writing suffragette history
On 10 October 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organisation that was to become the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women in Edwardian England. Their militant campaign was led by Emmeline and her eldest daughter, Christabel, the WSPU's Chief Organiser, the two younger Pankhurst daughters, Sylvia and Adela, also becaming active in the movement. While all fou…
Ferox uirtus
Achilles' slaying of Hector and Odysseus' massacre of the suitors link the themes of anger at the close of the Homeric poems with Aeneas' response to Turnus in the last lines of the Aeneid. Karl Galinsky has studied this in detail, but he also introduced briefly the Greek philosophical tradition, as well as Roman legal practice, to justify Aeneas' enraged killing of Turnus as wholly appropriate in these contexts. Michael Putnam has taken issue wi…
Writing suffragette history
On 10 October 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organisation that was to become the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women in Edwardian England. Their militant campaign was led by Emmeline and her eldest daughter, Christabel, the WSPU's Chief Organiser, the two younger Pankhurst daughters, Sylvia and Adela, also becaming active in the movement. While all fou…
An Impudent Intrusion?' Assessing the Life of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, First-Wave Feminist and Social Reformer (1833-1918)
This article seeks to re‐evaluate the life of first‐wave feminist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy through the lens of her own autobiographical fragments and newly‐discovered material concerning her genealogy and childhood familial circumstances. One of the most significant but under‐researched feminists of her generation, the ‘self’ constructed by Wolstenholme Elmy is one that appears to negate the influences of youthful familial circumstances on her…
The Women's Emancipation Union and Radical‐Feminist Politics in Britain, 1891–99
This paper considers the ideals and activism of the fin de siècle feminist organisation, the Women's Emancipation Union (WEU). Active between 1891 and 1899, the WEU held a prophetic vision of the future and an appraisal of women's subjection more comprehensive than any contemporary feminist group. Members were the first to link the possession by women of their bodily autonomy directly to the acquisition of the parliamentary vote, and thus redefin…
A Man ‘[a]s Black as the Devil Himself’
The perfect equality ofall personsbefore the law
The Personal Rights Association was established in 1871 to watch, restrain and influence legislation ‘in matters affecting the personal rights and liberties of the people’. Though initially its remit was to scrutinise legislation for terms that would be prejudicial to women, this soon extended to criticism of increasing incursions into male freedom. The PRA's membership, which comprised both sexes, included a cohort of male parliamentarians and i…
The Rabbi's atheist daughter
During the mid-decades of nineteenth century America few women could be argued to have worked as tirelessly for the emancipation of women as Ernestine Louise Potowska Rose (1810–1892). Born the onl
In the shadow of the Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM)
The Sheldon Community collaborated with Aston University to undertake the first ever systematic survey into the lived experience of the Church of England Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 (CDM). Criticisms of the CDM have already been well rehearsed, and this research has contributed to the fact that the measure is now believed to be formally slated for replacement. However, the impact of the CDM's flaws on the research participants needs to be unde…
A grand day for Congleton
This viewpoint explores the process and narrative of the erection of a statue of Victorian suffragist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) in her home town of Congleton, Cheshire from 2018-2022. The successful fundraising campaign, spearheaded by the Chair and Members of Elizabeth’s Group in Congleton, enabled the redoubtable Wolstenholme Elmy to be ‘rehabilitated’ in the town who had once shunned her for her progressive beliefs – which includ…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works)