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Personal Papers of Diane Worzala

Title Writings
Reference GCPP Worzala 1
Creator Worzala, Diane
Covering Dates 1972-circa 1994
Extent and Medium 18 files; Paper
Content and context

This section includes articles, reviews and conference papers written by Diane Worzala, also her doctoral thesis on the Langham Place Circle (see GCPP Worzala 1/3). The section is arranged broadly chronologically.

Girton/GCPP Worzala 1 contains:
1 Building the New Jerusalem: The Thought of Millicent Fawcett. 37pp ts with ms additions and corrections.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
18 December 1972
2 The Critics of J S Mill's 'The Subjection of Women'. Proposal by DW for a paper on this subject, and correspondence with various universities concerning the possibility of presenting the paper at conferences.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
1980
3 The Langham Place Circle: The Beginnings of the Organized Women's Movement in England, 1854-1870. Doctoral thesis submitted by Diane Mary Chase Worzala to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982. Unbound typescript copy, 496pp. Also 2 files and 3 notebooks of notes and research papers.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 box; Paper.
1982
4 Victorian Britain: an Encyclopedia. Offprints of articles written by DW on the Langham Place Circle and Bessie Rayner Parkes for publication in Victorian Britain: an Encylopedia, together with related correspondence with Sally Mitchell, 1985-87, and Christopher Ries, 1989 (both of Garland Publishing).
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
2 files in 1 bundle; Paper.
1985–1989
5 The Early Feminists: Advocates of Women's Rights in the 1830s. 40pp ts with ms additions and corrections. Covers, inter alia, Saint Simonianism, the Owenites, R J Richardson, the Unitarians, the Utilitarians, the Philosophic Radicals, Harriet Grote, Sarah Austin, Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, Lady Sydney Morgan.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
circa 1984
6 A Little Phalanx of Gentlemen: Male Support for the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement. Proposal for a paper on this subject.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
circa 1984
7 Women Must Work: the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, 1859-69. Proposal for a paper on the subject, 1985, and copy of the paper itself, as presented to the 50th anniversary conference of the Midwest Sociological Society, March 1986, together with related papers and correspondence with Oakland University.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
2 files in 1 bundle; Paper.
1985–1986
8 Philanthropy or Women's Rights?: The Ambivalent Thought of Bessie Rayner Parkes. Proposal for a paper on the above subject, together with proposals by Jessica Gerard for papers entitled 'Lady Bountiful: Women of the Landed Classes and Rural Philanthropy' and 'Women in Country House Services in Mid-Nineteenth Century England and Wales', together with related correspondence between DW and JG.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
1985
9 Mid-Victorian Retreat from Feminism: The Ambivalent Thought of Bessie Rayner Parkes. Proposal for a paper on the above subject, and a copy of the paper itself, 13pp ts, as presented to the 7th Berkshire Conference of Women Historians at Wellesley College 19 June 1987, together with related papers and correspondence.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
2 files in 1 bundle; Paper.
1987
10 The Langham Place Circle: Feminist Reform in Victorian Britain, 1854-70. Draft article, with revised copy; also related papers and correspondence concerning publication of the article in Hope and Glory, published by the Iowa Chapter, Victorian Society in America. Also including biographical notes on DW as at 1987.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
1986–1987
11 Review. 4pp ts review by DW of Nancy Fix Anderson, 'Woman Against Women in Victorian England: A Life of Eliza Lynn Linton', together with related correspondence concerning publication of the review in Victorian Periodicals Review.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
1987–1988
12 A Room of Their Own in the House of History: British Women Historians, 1919-1939. Two working copies, ts with ms additions and corrections, 30pp and 38pp. The paper discusses, inter alia, Winifred Mercier, Caroline Skeel, Bertha Phillpotts, Ivy Pinchbeck, Doris Stenton, Cecilia Ady, Eleanor Jourdain, Margery Perham, Maude Clarke, Eleanor Lodge, Gladys Scott Thomson, Elizabeth Levett, Lilian Knowles, Eileen Power, M G Jones, Helen Cam, and Eleonora Carus-Wilson.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
2 files in 1 bundle; Paper.
circa 1987
13 A Room of Their Own in the House of History: Historians of Women, 1919-1939. [The draft title for this article was originally 'Building a Room of Their Own in the House of History: Interwar Historians of Women'.] Paper on Alice Clark, Eileen Power and Ivy Pinchbeck, including the following: 3 early undated drafts; 19pp ts paper, with ms corrections and additions, as given to a Women's Studies course, no date; proposal for a paper and copy of the paper itself, as presented to the North American Conference on British Studies November 1988, together with related papers and correspondence. Also notes on the writings of Eileen Power and copies of some of EEP's articles, including: The Teaching of History and World Peace, 1921; A Plea for the Middle Ages, 1922; The Position of Women, 1926; On Medieval History as a Social Study, 1934; and Peasant Life and Rural Conditions (c. 1100 to c. 1500), 1932.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
4 files in 1 bundle; Paper.
circa 1987–1988
14 F P Cobbe. Proposal for a paper on Frances Power Cobbe.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
circa 1989
15 'Spinster' Cam Among the History Men: The Influence of Gender on the Career of Helen M Cam. Proposal for paper, abstract of paper, and copy of paper as presented at the Midwest Conference of British Studies, University of Michigan, October 1990. Also related correspondence and research papers, including the following: obituaries for and articles about Helen Cam; 'Historical Novels', an article by Helen Cam published for the Historical Association 1961; copy of a conversation with R F Webb about Helen Cam which took place on 19 October 1991.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
2 files in 1 bundle; Paper.
1990–1991
16 The Silver Age of Women's History: British Historians of Women During the Interwar Years. 16pp ts with related papers and correspondence, 1988-91, concerning 'Clio's Daughters', the 8th Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, at which the paper was delivered in 1991, also copy of DW's cv as at December 1988. Also copy of the paper as presented at the Second Southern Conference on Women's History, Chapel Hill NC, June 1991. [This paper differs from DW's previous paper on historians of women (see GCPP Worzala 1/13) about Alice Clark, Eileen Power and Ivy Pinchbeck - this covers, inter alia, Ray Strachey and Sylvia Pankhurst.].
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
2 files in 1 bundle; Paper.
1988–1991
17 The History Women: Academic Women Historians During the Interwar Period. Paper presented at Berkeley 1993. File includes biographical lists of academic women historians, 1918-39.
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
1993
18 A Room of Their Own in the House of History: Academic Women Historians in Britain, 1919-39. Final version of a paper submitted to the Journal of British Studies. The paper appears to be an adapted and extended version of 'The History Women- - - ' (as at GCPP Worzala 1/17 above).
Creator: Worzala, Diane.
1 file; Paper.
circa 1994

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