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Ada Macaulay to Literature Subcommittee, Belfast, 17 February 1914
written by Ada Macaulay, fl. 1914, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office (UWUC Executive Committee Minute Book 1913-1940 (Reference number D1098/1/2).) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (17 February 1914) , 2 page(s)
KEYWORDS: Northern Ireland; Ulster; Ulster Women’s Unionist Council; Unionism in Ireland; United Kingdom; UWUC
written by Ada Macaulay, fl. 1914, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office (UWUC Executive Committee Minute Book 1913-1940 (Reference number D1098/1/2).) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (17 February 1914) , 2 page(s)
Description
KEYWORDS: Northern Ireland; Ulster; Ulster Women’s Unionist Council; Unionism in Ireland; United Kingdom; UWUC
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
17 February 1914, 1914
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Recipient Organization
Ulster Women's Unionist Council
Author / Creator
Ada Macaulay, fl. 1914
Topic / Theme
Social Reform and Political Activism, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, National Identity, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Annual Report for 1913
written by Emily J. Connor, fl. 1914, John M. Hamill, fl. 1916 and Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, Ulster Women's Unionist Council, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office ((D 668/0), The Hezlett Papers) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1914), 4 page(s)
Four-page annual report of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council for 1913. The report discusses the Campaign in Great Britain, meetings in Ulster, the Literature Sub-Committee's work, and the Sir Edmund Carson Ulster Defense Fund.
written by Emily J. Connor, fl. 1914, John M. Hamill, fl. 1916 and Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, Ulster Women's Unionist Council, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office ((D 668/0), The Hezlett Papers) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1914), 4 page(s)
Description
Four-page annual report of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council for 1913. The report discusses the Campaign in Great Britain, meetings in Ulster, the Literature Sub-Committee's work, and the Sir Edmund Carson Ulster Defense Fund.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Emily J. Connor, fl. 1914, John M. Hamill, fl. 1916, Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, Ulster Women's Unionist Council
Date Published / Released
20 January 1914, 1914
Publisher
Ulster Women's Unionist Council
Topic / Theme
Social Reform and Political Activism, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, National Identity, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Annual Report for 1914
written by Emily J. Connor, fl. 1914, John M. Hamill, fl. 1916 and Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, Ulster Women's Unionist Council, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office ((D 668/0), The Hezlett Papers) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1915), 3 page(s)
Three-page annual report of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council for 1914. The report discusses campaign work, the outbreak of the war, the Literature Sub-Committee's work, and the motor ambulance donation.
written by Emily J. Connor, fl. 1914, John M. Hamill, fl. 1916 and Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, Ulster Women's Unionist Council, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office ((D 668/0), The Hezlett Papers) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1915), 3 page(s)
Description
Three-page annual report of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council for 1914. The report discusses campaign work, the outbreak of the war, the Literature Sub-Committee's work, and the motor ambulance donation.
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Emily J. Connor, fl. 1914, John M. Hamill, fl. 1916, Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, Ulster Women's Unionist Council
Date Published / Released
12 January 1915, 1915
Publisher
Ulster Women's Unionist Council
Topic / Theme
World War I, 1914-1918, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, National Identity, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Az alakuló Noképzo-Egyesület programmja.1867; Alapszabály. 1868
(Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár [Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library], Budapest, Hungary), in Veres Pálné Beniczky Hermin élete és működése. Hálás tisztelete jeléül kiadta: az Országos Nőképző-Egyesület [Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published As a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education], edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. (Budapest: Az Atheneum irod. és nyomdai r.-társulat könyvnyomdája, 1902). pp. 702-705 (1902), 4 page(s)
TITLE: Program of the Forming Association for Women's Education, 1867; and the Charter, 1868, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, 702-705. DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1...
(Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár [Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library], Budapest, Hungary), in Veres Pálné Beniczky Hermin élete és működése. Hálás tisztelete jeléül kiadta: az Országos Nőképző-Egyesület [Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published As a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education], edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. (Budapest: Az Atheneum irod. és nyomdai r.-társulat könyvnyomdája, 1902). pp. 702-705 (1902), 4 page(s)
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TITLE: Program of the Forming Association for Women's Education, 1867; and the Charter, 1868, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, 702-705. DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1902 publication Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. The book c...
TITLE: Program of the Forming Association for Women's Education, 1867; and the Charter, 1868, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, 702-705. DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1902 publication Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. The book contains an extensive account of the life and activities of Beniczky and reprints of many original documents. Hermin Beniczky, usually remembered as Mrs. Pál Veres (1815-1895), was a pioneer of Hungarian women’s education, founder in 1868 of the National Association for Women’s Education (Országos Nőképző-Egyesület) and its long-term President, and co-founder in 1869 of the first high school for girls in Hungary. See the biographical summary of her in Krassimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, and Francisca de Haan, A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006), 54-57. The extracts selected include a collection of writings dating from the period 1865–69. These include Beniczky’s calls from 1865 and 1867, her treatise from 1868 and documents of her lobbying with the governing party from 1868–69, when she submitted a petition signed by nine thousand women to the Hungarian parliament, requesting a law on higher women’s schools with public funding. In her writings, Beniczky condemned the exclusive concern for languages and etiquette in the upbringing of upper-class girls and argued that a more meaningful education would also help secure a livelihood for unmarried and widowed women. Taking note of a general shift from physical towards intellectual work, she set out a broad range of possible female careers. However, she kept distancing herself from any more far-reaching concept of women’s emancipation. There is also a portrait of Beniczky. Another selection from Beniczky’s writings from the period 1869 to 1883, includes opening speeches from the Association’s general assembly meetings, letters, papers and addresses. The initiative to finance higher women’s schools from public funds failed in lack of political backing. The central school, however, got under way in 1869 with Hungarian as the sole language of instruction, and although Beniczky complained about high attrition rates, it soon launched a teacher training track as well. Finally, a selection from the documents from the period 1869–94 include the statutes of the National Association, the first curriculum of the central school for the two lower grades, a report on its opening, a call by the Association to celebrate the royal couple’s 25 year coronation jubilee (Francis Joseph was Emperor of Austria since 1848 but had been crowned King of Hungary only in 1867), its congratulatory letter sent on the same occasion, and contributions to the 25 year jubilee of the National Association itself in 1893. The curriculum is remarkable for giving a close glimpse at Beniczky’s ambitious vision of women’s education. Girls of thirteen to fourteen years of age in the general track studied all of the following subjects: art history, aesthetics, pedagogy, hygienic, Hungarian, German and French, arithmetic, drawing, thinking, ethics, Hungarian cultural history and civics, Hungarian literary history and chemistry applied to the household. A few letters received by Mrs. Veres, writings about her, and writings which address her activities and other important events in relation to women’s education, such as for instance the speech by the Minister for education, Gyula Wlassics, on the occasion of the opening of the National Association’s girls’ gymnasium in 1896, are also included. In 1906 a statue was erected in Budapest depicturing Mrs. Veres, wearing a Hungarian national costume. Today, the statue is placed at the beginning of Mrs. Pál Veres Street (Veres Pálné utca) in the inner city of the Hungarian capital. Its pedestal carries the inscription “Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky. She fought for the cause that Woman with her education and her soul may become a factor/agent (tényező) of national welfare.” For more on the sculpture, see Veres Pálné, Beniczky Hermin szobra [The Sculpture of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky] (Budapest, 1906). KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; Dynasty; Elisabeth Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria; Women and Nation within Empire; Women and Nation-Building; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Empire Silenced; Women and Education; Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political Parties and Other Male-Dominated Organizations; Habsburg Empire; Austria; Hungary
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Section
Date Published / Released
1902
Person Discussed
Hermin Beniczky, 1815-1895, Elisabeth, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1837-1898, Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916, Gyula Wlassics, 1852-1937
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Access to Higher Education, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Empire and Education, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Empire and Feminism, National Identity, Indigenous La...
Women and Education, Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Access to Higher Education, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Empire and Education, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Empire and Feminism, National Identity, Indigenous Languages, Hungarians, Austrians
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Az Egyesület fennállásának 25 éves örömünnepérol. 1893 április
(Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár [Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library], Budapest, Hungary), in Veres Pálné Beniczky Hermin élete és működése. Hálás tisztelete jeléül kiadta: az Országos Nőképző-Egyesület [Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published As a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education], edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. (Budapest: Az Atheneum irod. és nyomdai r.-társulat könyvnyomdája, 1902). pp. 717-737 (1902), 21 page(s)
TITLE: The 25th Anniversary of the National Association for Women's Education’s Existence, April 1893, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, pp. 717-737. DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extr...
(Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár [Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library], Budapest, Hungary), in Veres Pálné Beniczky Hermin élete és működése. Hálás tisztelete jeléül kiadta: az Országos Nőképző-Egyesület [Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published As a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education], edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. (Budapest: Az Atheneum irod. és nyomdai r.-társulat könyvnyomdája, 1902). pp. 717-737 (1902), 21 page(s)
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TITLE: The 25th Anniversary of the National Association for Women's Education’s Existence, April 1893, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, pp. 717-737. DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1902 publication Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szige...
TITLE: The 25th Anniversary of the National Association for Women's Education’s Existence, April 1893, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, pp. 717-737. DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1902 publication Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. The book contains an extensive account of the life and activities of Beniczky and reprints of many original documents. Hermin Beniczky, usually remembered as Mrs. Pál Veres (1815-1895), was a pioneer of Hungarian women’s education, founder in 1868 of the National Association for Women’s Education (Országos Nőképző-Egyesület) and its long-term President, and co-founder in 1869 of the first high school for girls in Hungary. See the biographical summary of her in Krassimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, and Francisca de Haan, A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006), 54-57. The extracts selected include a collection of writings dating from the period 1865–69. These include Beniczky’s calls from 1865 and 1867, her treatise from 1868 and documents of her lobbying with the governing party from 1868–69, when she submitted a petition signed by nine thousand women to the Hungarian parliament, requesting a law on higher women’s schools with public funding. In her writings, Beniczky condemned the exclusive concern for languages and etiquette in the upbringing of upper-class girls and argued that a more meaningful education would also help secure a livelihood for unmarried and widowed women. Taking note of a general shift from physical towards intellectual work, she set out a broad range of possible female careers. However, she kept distancing herself from any more far-reaching concept of women’s emancipation. There is also a portrait of Beniczky. Another selection from Beniczky’s writings from the period 1869 to 1883, includes opening speeches from the Association’s general assembly meetings, letters, papers and addresses. The initiative to finance higher women’s schools from public funds failed in lack of political backing. The central school, however, got under way in 1869 with Hungarian as the sole language of instruction, and although Beniczky complained about high attrition rates, it soon launched a teacher training track as well. Finally, a selection from the documents from the period 1869–94 include the statutes of the National Association, the first curriculum of the central school for the two lower grades, a report on its opening, a call by the Association to celebrate the royal couple’s 25 year coronation jubilee (Francis Joseph was Emperor of Austria since 1848 but had been crowned King of Hungary only in 1867), its congratulatory letter sent on the same occasion, and contributions to the 25 year jubilee of the National Association itself in 1893. The curriculum is remarkable for giving a close glimpse at Beniczky’s ambitious vision of women’s education. Girls of thirteen to fourteen years of age in the general track studied all of the following subjects: art history, aesthetics, pedagogy, hygienic, Hungarian, German and French, arithmetic, drawing, thinking, ethics, Hungarian cultural history and civics, Hungarian literary history and chemistry applied to the household. A few letters received by Mrs. Veres, writings about her, and writings which address her activities and other important events in relation to women’s education, such as for instance the speech by the Minister for education, Gyula Wlassics, on the occasion of the opening of the National Association’s girls’ gymnasium in 1896, are also included. In 1906 a statue was erected in Budapest depicturing Mrs. Veres, wearing a Hungarian national costume. Today, the statue is placed at the beginning of Mrs. Pál Veres Street (Veres Pálné utca) in the inner city of the Hungarian capital. Its pedestal carries the inscription “Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky. She fought for the cause that Woman with her education and her soul may become a factor/agent (tényező) of national welfare.” For more on the sculpture, see Veres Pálné, Beniczky Hermin szobra [The Sculpture of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky] (Budapest, 1906). KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; Dynasty; Elisabeth Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria; Women and Nation within Empire; Women and Nation-Building; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Empire Silenced; Women and Education; Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political Parties and Other Male-Dominated Organizations; Habsburg Empire; Austria; Hungary
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Section
Date Published / Released
1902
Person Discussed
Hermin Beniczky, 1815-1895, Elisabeth, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1837-1898, Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916, Gyula Wlassics, 1852-1937
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Empire and Education, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, National Identity, Indigenous Languages, Empire and Feminism, Hungarians, Austrians
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China, her life and her people
written by Francesca French, 1871-1960 and Mildred Cable, 1878-1952 (London, England: University of London Press, 1946), 213 page(s)
written by Francesca French, 1871-1960 and Mildred Cable, 1878-1952 (London, England: University of London Press, 1946), 213 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Francesca French, 1871-1960, Mildred Cable, 1878-1952
Date Published / Released
1946
Publisher
University of London Press
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Social and Cultural Rights, National Identity, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Cuvantul de deschidere rostit de doamna Maria B. Baiulescu, presedinta Uniunii Femeilor Romane din Brasov la I-ul Congres al Reuniunilor de...
written by Maria Baiulescu, 1860-1941 ("George Baritiu" Library, Brasov, Romania, MS 1954, f. 36, "George Baritiu" County Library Special Collections) (1913) , 1 page(s)
TITLE: Opening Speech Given by Mrs. Maria B. Baiulescu, President of the Union of Romanian Women in Brasov to the Ist Congress of the Women's Reunions held in Brasov between 3-5 June 1913. DESCRIPTION: Typed draft of speech by Maria Baiulescu on the occasion of the first congress of the Union of Romanian Women in...
written by Maria Baiulescu, 1860-1941 ("George Baritiu" Library, Brasov, Romania, MS 1954, f. 36, "George Baritiu" County Library Special Collections) (1913) , 1 page(s)
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TITLE: Opening Speech Given by Mrs. Maria B. Baiulescu, President of the Union of Romanian Women in Brasov to the Ist Congress of the Women's Reunions held in Brasov between 3-5 June 1913. DESCRIPTION: Typed draft of speech by Maria Baiulescu on the occasion of the first congress of the Union of Romanian Women in Hungary. Maria Baiulescu (1860-1941) was an author, Romanian nationalist and civic organizer. She was the president of the Reunion of R...
TITLE: Opening Speech Given by Mrs. Maria B. Baiulescu, President of the Union of Romanian Women in Brasov to the Ist Congress of the Women's Reunions held in Brasov between 3-5 June 1913. DESCRIPTION: Typed draft of speech by Maria Baiulescu on the occasion of the first congress of the Union of Romanian Women in Hungary. Maria Baiulescu (1860-1941) was an author, Romanian nationalist and civic organizer. She was the president of the Reunion of Romanian Women in Brasov/Brasso/Kronstadt (1908-1935), the President of the Union of Romanian Women (a federation of Transylvanian women’s associations) (1913-1935), and leader of ASTRA association’s Biopolitical Section, founded in 1927. A supporter of women’s social involvement, she advocated what has been termed “republican motherhood,” which focused on women’s roles as nurturers and educators of the nation. See, Krassimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, and Francisca de Haan, A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006), 48-50. Baiulescu’s personal archives are housed by the "George Baritiu" County Library Brasov (Romania), Special Collections Unit. The Union of Romanian Women reunited approximatively half of the 60 independent Romanian women’s “Reunions” that had appeared in Transylvania since the 1850s. ¶ The speech laid out the purpose of a Union with “centralized power” to direct the activities of the adhering women’s Reunions in Hungary. The document also argued that the Union would direct the activities of women’s Reunions that would form in the future. The goals of the Union outlined by Baiulescu were promoting girls’ education, preserving peasant women’s handicraft traditions, raising “hardworking and thrifty wives and mothers,” promoting charitability among women, and creating a unified orphanage. Finally, according to Baiulescu, “through her disinterested social work woman is becoming an important factor even in states’ lives as only she is capable to resolve somewhat the humanitarian problem.” At first sight, the speech reaffirms and unifies the existing areas of activity of the Union’s members and places them within the politically uncontroversial frame of “republican motherhood.” However, concerning the context of this speech, the Romanian Women’s Union founding congress was scheduled to coincide with the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) Congress in Budapest (3-5 June 1913). Whereas Saxon and Hungarian women’s associations in Transylvania were visible participants at the IWSA Congress, the newly-formed Union abstained from organized participation. The abstention was due to a “silenced or veiled” (but, nevertheless, present) suffrage politics pursued by the Transylvanian Romanian women’s movement in Hungary, one that may have been carried aut through the Romanian National Party’s advocating universal suffrage in the Hungarian Parliament, largely because of governemntal restrictions against minorities associational life in the Kingdom of Hungary ¶ This document points to the existence of the Union of Romanian Women in Hungary and the tendencies towards centralization of disparate women’s associations, occurring by the 1910s. Secondly, Baiulescu’s speech reveals the rhetoric that masked the transnational connections and internationally convergent politics some politically-minded Transylvanian Romanian women, although, perhaps, not Maria Baiulescu herself, were pursuing at the time. KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Nation-Building; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Women and Struggle Between Nations in the Empire; National Identity; Social Reform and Political Activism; Welfare Movements; Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements; Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations; Political and Human Rights; Human Rights, Suffrage; Women and Education; Gendered Education; Work and Class Identity; Sexual Division of Labor; Habsburg Empire; Kingdom of Hungary; International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA).
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1913
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Speech/Address
Author / Creator
Maria Baiulescu, 1860-1941
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Education, Work and Class Identity, Indigenous Women, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Social and Cultural Rights, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, National Identity, Access to Primary Education/Literacy, Equal Rights for Women, Sexual Division of Labor, Gendered Education, Human Rights, Su...
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Education, Work and Class Identity, Indigenous Women, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Social and Cultural Rights, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, National Identity, Access to Primary Education/Literacy, Equal Rights for Women, Sexual Division of Labor, Gendered Education, Human Rights, Suffrage, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Social Movements and Indigenous Women, Social and Political Leadership, Empire and Feminism, Romanians
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Edyth Mercier Clements to Lady Londonderry [Theresa Susey Chetwynd Talbot], Belfast, 21 June 1918
written by Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office (D 2846/1/8/68). Letters Received by Lady Londonderry as President of the Women's Unionist Council. (D2846/1/8)) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (21 June 1918) , 5 page(s)
This handwritten letter is from Edyth Mercier Clements to Lady Londonderry (Theresa Susey Chetwynd Talbot). Clements heavily criticized a recent letter sent by Talbot to the affiliated branches of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC). Clements raised five points in her reply. First, “the UWUC ha[d] done...
written by Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918, in Ulster Women's Unionist Council Papers, of Northern Ireland. Public Record Office (D 2846/1/8/68). Letters Received by Lady Londonderry as President of the Women's Unionist Council. (D2846/1/8)) (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (21 June 1918) , 5 page(s)
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This handwritten letter is from Edyth Mercier Clements to Lady Londonderry (Theresa Susey Chetwynd Talbot). Clements heavily criticized a recent letter sent by Talbot to the affiliated branches of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC). Clements raised five points in her reply. First, “the UWUC ha[d] done nothing” during the war; therefore, its members had worked as individuals. This point seemed to speak to one made by Talbot regarding...
This handwritten letter is from Edyth Mercier Clements to Lady Londonderry (Theresa Susey Chetwynd Talbot). Clements heavily criticized a recent letter sent by Talbot to the affiliated branches of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC). Clements raised five points in her reply. First, “the UWUC ha[d] done nothing” during the war; therefore, its members had worked as individuals. This point seemed to speak to one made by Talbot regarding the push for the association to “do different things.” Second, Clements questioned the proposed constitutional changes, as she was unaware of any such proposals. Thirdly, she pointed out that the question of a separate women’s party was also not a proposal before the council. Fourth, Clements questioned the significance of the UWUC in registering women voters, as other groups, both men and women, were engaged in this effort as well. Finally, Clements baulked at Talbot’s point that the Unionist women should work with other Unionist groups, namely, Clements argued, because Unionist men and women had historically and contemporarily worked together toward Ulster goals. The letter’s overall critical tone demonstrates the difficulty of transitioning the association from wartime to peacetime. As a note, Clements died unexpectedly in 1920, among rumors that she was killed by her husband, Dr. Robert George Clements. KEYWORDS: Edyth Mercier Clements; constitution; Home Rule Bill; Northern Ireland; Theresa Susey Chetwynd Talbot; Ulster; Ulster Women’s Unionist Council; Unionism in Ireland; Unionist; United Kingdom; UWUC; woman’s party; women’s party
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
21 June 1918, 1918
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Edyth Mercier Clements, fl. 1918
Topic / Theme
Social Reform and Political Activism, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, National Identity, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Elena Šoltészová to Božena Viková-Kunětická, 11. 11. 1912
written by Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, 1855-1939 (Památník národního písemnictví v Praze, Literární archiv, [Memorial of National Literature, Literary Archives], fond Viková-Kunětická Božena, access. no. 59/55) (11 November 1912) , 4 page(s)
TITLE: Elena Šoltészová to Božena Viková-Kunětická, 11. 11. 1912. DESCRIPTION: Elena (Maróthy-) Šoltésová (1855-1939) was a Slovak writer, editor and publicist and one of the leading figures of Slovak women’s activism of the 2nd half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Between 1894 and 192...
written by Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, 1855-1939 (Památník národního písemnictví v Praze, Literární archiv, [Memorial of National Literature, Literary Archives], fond Viková-Kunětická Božena, access. no. 59/55) (11 November 1912) , 4 page(s)
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TITLE: Elena Šoltészová to Božena Viková-Kunětická, 11. 11. 1912. DESCRIPTION: Elena (Maróthy-) Šoltésová (1855-1939) was a Slovak writer, editor and publicist and one of the leading figures of Slovak women’s activism of the 2nd half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Between 1894 and 1927, she was the chairwoman of the Slovak women’s association Živena. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was Czech speaking write...
TITLE: Elena Šoltészová to Božena Viková-Kunětická, 11. 11. 1912. DESCRIPTION: Elena (Maróthy-) Šoltésová (1855-1939) was a Slovak writer, editor and publicist and one of the leading figures of Slovak women’s activism of the 2nd half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Between 1894 and 1927, she was the chairwoman of the Slovak women’s association Živena. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was Czech speaking writer and nationalist politician. In 1912, she was elected a deputy to the Bohemian Provincial Diet, the first elected woman deputy in the Habsburg Monarchy. The curial electoral system to the Diet, in use since 1861, was based on tax and property qualifications and thus excluded a major part of the citizens on the basis of class. At the same time the regulations pertaining to the Bohemian Diet used gender neutral terms – some women thus were not deprived from the right to vote to the Diet, some were not explicitly excluded from the passive electoral right. The letter concerns mainly the speech given by Božena Viková-Kunětická at the women's election congress in Munich, Germany on September 23, 1912. Šoltésová appreciates that Viková-Kunětická condemned the suppression of the Slavs in Austria-Hungary and in particular showed sympathy with the Slovaks in her speech. Šoltésová asks Viková-Kunětická to send her the copy of that part of the speech so that she can write about it for the Slovak audience. She is also pleased that such a woman had been elected to the Bohemian Diet. Bohemia was a crown land of Austria (Cisleithania). KEYWORDS: Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Nationality Rights; Habsburg Empire; Slovakia
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
11 November 1912, 1912
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, 1855-1939
Topic / Theme
Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Immigration, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, National Identity, Nationality Rights, Empire and Feminism, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Slovak
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Emilia Dr. Rațiu to Jeanne del Homme, 1894
written by Emilia Rațiu, 1846-1929 (Arhivele Nationale Istorice Centrale Bucharest, 1213/1894, Fond 1246 Personal Fond Dr. Ioan Ratiu) (1894) , 3 page(s)
TITLE: Emilia Dr. Rațiu to Jeanne del Homme, 1894. DESCRIPTION: Romanian-language draft of letter from Emilia Rațiu to Jeanne del Homme, likely in 1894. Emilia Rațiu (1846-1929) was a Transylvanian Romanian nationalist activist, frequent contributor to Familia magazine. She was married to Romanian National Part...
written by Emilia Rațiu, 1846-1929 (Arhivele Nationale Istorice Centrale Bucharest, 1213/1894, Fond 1246 Personal Fond Dr. Ioan Ratiu) (1894) , 3 page(s)
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TITLE: Emilia Dr. Rațiu to Jeanne del Homme, 1894. DESCRIPTION: Romanian-language draft of letter from Emilia Rațiu to Jeanne del Homme, likely in 1894. Emilia Rațiu (1846-1929) was a Transylvanian Romanian nationalist activist, frequent contributor to Familia magazine. She was married to Romanian National Party leader Ioan Rațiu. She was president of the Reunion of Romanian Women in the town of Turda/Torda/Thorenburg, founder of the Women’...
TITLE: Emilia Dr. Rațiu to Jeanne del Homme, 1894. DESCRIPTION: Romanian-language draft of letter from Emilia Rațiu to Jeanne del Homme, likely in 1894. Emilia Rațiu (1846-1929) was a Transylvanian Romanian nationalist activist, frequent contributor to Familia magazine. She was married to Romanian National Party leader Ioan Rațiu. She was president of the Reunion of Romanian Women in the town of Turda/Torda/Thorenburg, founder of the Women’s Reading Society in the same town in 1873, and an initiator of several other social reform and welfare activities. She led international mobilization efforts in favor of the claims of Transylvanian Romanians within Austria-Hungary, especially following the arrest of Ioan Rațiu in 1894. Jeanne del Homme was a French teacher, based in Oxford and then in Le Mans. She was instrumental in publicizing the “Memorandum trial” occurring in Transylvania in 1894 among English progressive liberals and in the English press. ¶ In this letter, Emilia Rațiu thanks del Homme for her support, offers information on her husband's trial, imminent imprisonment and wives' plans to provide support during incarceration. Rațiu promises to follow del Homme's advice in sending photographs of the imprisoned men and embroidery to one Ms. S.A. Byles and to thank the editor of the Daily Chronicle newspaper. Rațiu mentions that the articles Ms. del Homme had sent were being translated by one Ms. Silvia Barcianu, "the sole Romanian lady here in Sibiu who speaks better English." Rațiu answers del Homme’s request for the address of a suitable correspondent in Romania (presumably an English-speaker) by providing the name of Ionel Gradisteanu in Bucharest. She also mentions sending along with the letter the copy of the Memorandum that del Homme had requested and a German-language newspaper detailing a “new barbarity of the Hungarians against us,” gendarmes beating up a Romanian priest. Rațiu assures del Homme that the Frenchwoman’s name was going to occupy am important place “in the pages of our nation’s history.” ¶ The draft letter illustrates transnational connections outside the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the circulation of political mobilization practices and knowledges and points to concrete and symbolic “translation difficulties” (using English as common language). It also highlights the emergence of a material culture of nationalism, with photographs and folk costumes as core types of objects. Because the letter does not only mention the Memorandum trial but also “other barbarities,” it makes plain that Emilia Rațiu was acting as a nationalist activist and not simply as someone preoccupied with the narrower issue of the condemnation of Nationalist Party leaders. KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Women and Struggle Between Nations in the Empire; National Identity; Women Challenging Empire; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations; Habsburg Empire; Transylvania; Photographs; Mobilization; Networks; Memorandum.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1894
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Emilia Rațiu, 1846-1929
Topic / Theme
Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Opposition to Imperialism, National Identity, Empire and Feminism, Romanians
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