{"product_id":"before-and-after-edith-morley-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edith Morley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1909747165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781909747166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Rivers Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Edith Morley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074101113087,"sku":"9781909747166","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42d4bc32-00ab-4956-bf7c-404be49ebfa3.jpg?v=1685451785","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-and-after-edith-morley-9781909747166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}