The talk I gave on Friday 14 June 2019 at the National is about courtship and forbidden love in the Edwardian period (mostly) and is linked to the theatre’s showing of Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son (1912). It’s a fascinating play…
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The commerce of romance: from Edwardian to Second Wave feminism
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‘Academic dyke, 25, feminist, non-scene, seeks similar’: Personal Ads in Spare Rib
Spare Rib – the iconic magazine of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s and 1980s, offered a small pleasure to readers looking for ‘love among the small ads’, despite its complex relationship to both advertising and romantic relationships.…
Tagged with: advertising revenue, classified ads, lesbians, love, periodicals, relationships, sex
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