Tag: Feminist History

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 29th

    No particular birthday today so let’s celebrate Louisa Lumsden CBE (1840-1935), the first prominent female figure at the University of St Andrews. Louisa was one of the original students of Girton College Cambridge.  She taught classics there and later at Cheltenham. In 1877 she became Head of St Leonard’s school in St Andrews. In 1895…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 1st

    A new month, but no birthday to celebrate. I’ll have run out of people whose dates I haven’t found soon and then where will I be? Ok, never mind. Today we are composing birthday odes for Emilia Bassano Lanier aka Aemelia Lanyer 1569–1645 Emilia was  Jewish, the  illegitimate daughter of Venetian musician Baptista Bassano and…