Generations of Women Historians

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This collection focuses on generations of early women historians, seeking to identify the intellectual milieu and professional realities that framed their lives. It moves beyond treating them as simply individuals and looks to the social and intellectual forces that encouraged them to study history and, at the same time, would often limit the reach and define the nature of their study. This collection of essays speaks to female practitioners of history over the past four centuries that published original histories, some within a university setting and some outside. By analysing the values these early women scholars faced, readers can understand the broader social values that led women historians to exist as a unit apart from the career path of their male colleagues. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction: Women’s Scholarship Within and Outside the Academy, 1870–1960 (Hilda L. Smith)....Pages 1-21 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Ellen Annette McArthur: Establishing a Presence in the Academy (Amy Louise Erickson)....Pages 25-48 Alice Clark’s Critique of Capitalism (Tim Stretton)....Pages 49-71 Julia Cherry Spruill, Historian of Southern Colonial Women (Anna Suranyi)....Pages 73-88 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 “No Leisure for Myself ”: C.C. Stopes and British Freewomen (Hilda L. Smith)....Pages 91-113 C. V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World (Melinda S. Zook)....Pages 115-135 Caroline Robbins: An Anglo-American Historian (Lois G. Schwoerer)....Pages 137-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 Arvède Barine: History, Modernity, and Feminism (Whitney Walton)....Pages 159-179 The Historian and the Empress: Isabel de Madariaga’s Catherine the Great (Willard Sunderland)....Pages 181-194 Eleanor Flexner: Civil Rights and Feminist Activism and Writing (M. Christine Anderson)....Pages 195-216 Front Matter ....Pages 217-217 Women’s Literary History in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France: Louise de Kéralio and Henriette Guizot de Witt (Mihoko Suzuki)....Pages 219-245 Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist’s Historical Writings (Tracy Teslow)....Pages 247-272 Nancy Mitford: Lessons for Historians from a Best-Selling Author (Judith P. Zinsser)....Pages 273-295 Front Matter ....Pages 297-297 Conclusion: Understanding Women Historians’ Lives and Scholarly Reputations Both Within and Outside the Academy (Bonnie G. Smith)....Pages 299-307 Back Matter ....Pages 309-320