{"product_id":"9781909747166","title":"Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntended 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, \u003cem\u003eBefore and After\u003c\/em\u003e, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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\u003cp\u003eCovering the vividly described setting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Every woman now working in British universities - or in any other profession for that matter - will recognise Edith Morley's story ... Quite simply, she took on the establishment, as feminists have done ever since.' From the Foreword by Professor Mary Beard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Rivers Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033402949872,"sku":"9781909747166","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909747166_p0.jpg?v=1763625394","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909747166","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}