{"id":1223,"date":"2006-05-09T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2006-05-09T12:43:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T12:43:01","slug":"another-academic-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Another academic age &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just making some notes from <em>The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age<\/em>, from 1909 (it remained a standard text at least into the Sixties), and noticed the title of its author, Phoebe Sheavyn, D. Lit. &#8211; &#8220;Special Lecturer in English Literature and Tutor for Women Students; Warden of the Hall of Residence for Women Students&#8221;, at Ashburne Hall in Manchester. She had quite a life, <a href=\"http:\/\/66.249.93.104\/search?q=cache:MGJC1dF-6psJ:www.triangle.co.uk\/pdf\/validate.asp%3Fj%3Dwhr%26vol%3D4%26issue%3D4%26year%3D1995%26article%3D4-4-CD+%22Phoebe+Sheavyn%22&#038;hl=en&#038;gl=uk&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=13\">this site<\/a> indicates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After  studying  for  her  first degree in Aberystwyth she had held posts as Reader, then Fellow, in Bryn Mawr,  before  returning  to  England  as  Tutor  and  Lecturer  in  English  at Somerville.  She  had  been  much  impressed  by  the  contrast  between  the dignified  and  spacious  arrangements  she  had  seen  enjoyed  by  women students  in  the  USA,  and  the  characteristically  cramped  and  meagre accommodation made available to their British counterparts. The early Minute  Books  of  the  BFUW  Executive  indicate  something  of  her determination  to  strengthen  the  position  of  women  in  academic  life in Britain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just making some notes from The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age, from 1909 (it remained a standard text at least into the Sixties), and noticed the title of its author, Phoebe Sheavyn, D. Lit. &#8211; &#8220;Special Lecturer in English Literature and Tutor for Women Students; Warden of the Hall of Residence for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}