{"product_id":"thanks-for-typing-9781350150058","title":"Thanks for Typing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection uncovers the wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men. Revealing the reality of uncredited female contributions throughout history, this book highlights the work of neglected and forgotten women associated with celebrated male writers, scholars, activists and politicians.   As the #ThanksforTyping movement has shown, anonymous women working to support the work of their male relations and colleagues has been, and often still is, a universal phenomenon. These essays show just how long intelligent and determined women have been sidelined, ignored or forgotten throughout history. From a well-connected Roman matrician to the mother of the poet Philip Larkin, these women have their voices returned to them in twenty engaging chapters. Spanning ancient times to the modern day, they return agency to women who occupied crucial roles behind the scenes, but were always restricted to the supporting role they were obliged t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘There are very few books that can claim to address genuinely universal phenomena, and \u003ci\u003eThanks for Typing\u003c\/i\u003e is one of this small class. Its canvas stretches from the classical world, via the medieval and early modern, to our own, and from Japan and Korea and North Africa, via the Russian Empire and Western Europe, to the United States – because in all these times and places the visible work of men was made possible by the invisible labour of women. \u003ci\u003eThanks for Typing\u003c\/i\u003e makes such engagement possible for a range of readerships, and on a truly impressive scale.’ * Dr Anna Vaninskaya, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK *\u003cbr\u003eJuliana Dresvina’s proposed collection of essays is imaginative, novel, wide-ranging and timely. It brings together scholars from very diverse fields of history, art history and literature, who share an interest in the too-long neglected stories of wives, daughters, companions and female assistants of celebrated male figures. The subjects range from a learned and saintly 5th-century Byzantine empress to the devoted daughter of a murdered 20th-century German Communist leader. These were women of courage, determination and brilliance, who were compelled to subordinate their own talents to a husband, partner, father or employer. Taken together, these fascinating studies exemplify the long-term paradox of energetic and charismatic women, who might have occupied crucial roles behind the scenes yet were always regarded as secondary figures because they were overshadowed by more powerful men. * Paul Monod, Hepburn Professor of History Chair, Department of History Middlebury College, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors  List of Figures    Introduction  1. Part I: Secretaries and Editors  2. M.E. Fitzgerald: Office Manager to Modernism, \u003ci\u003eCatherine Hollis, \u003c\/i\u003eU.C. Berkeley, USA  3. The Secretary and Her Professor: Alli Hytti and L. A. Puntila, \u003ci\u003eAnu Lahtinen, \u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of Helsinki, Finland  4. Jumped-up Typists: Two Guardians of the Flame, \u003ci\u003eKaren Christensen, Independent scholar\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Thanks for Penguin: Women, Invisible Labour, and Publishing in the Mid-Twentieth Century, \u003ci\u003eRebecca E. Lyons, \u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of Bristol, UK    Part II: Politicians and Activists  6. Backing the Family: Servilia Between the Murder of Caesar and the Battle of Philippi, \u003ci\u003eSusan Treggiari, \u003c\/i\u003eStanford University, USA  7. A Flaming Soul: Maissi Erkko Fighting for Women, Finland and Family Legacy, \u003ci\u003eReetta Hanninen, \u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of Helsinki, Finland  8. Student, Diplomat, Wife, traveller ? A Transnational Life of Marie Sargant-Cerný, \u003ci\u003eHana Navratilova, Independent scholar\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Legacy of Kim Hak-soon (1924-1997), \u003ci\u003eWoohee Kim, \u003c\/i\u003eHarvard University, USA    Part III: Artists and Painters  10. Jeanne de Montbaston: An Illuminating Woman, \u003ci\u003eMelek Karatas, \u003c\/i\u003eKing's College London, UK  11. Judith Leyster: The Artist Vanishes, \u003ci\u003eIrene Kukota, Curator, France\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Textiles Rubbing Us the Wrong Way: A Tour of Karin Bergöö Larsson’s Acts of Fibre Resistance, \u003ci\u003eGodelinde Gertrude Perk, \u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of Oxford, UK  13. Canvases in the Attic: Four Generations of the Lane Poole women, \u003ci\u003eJuliana Dresvina, \u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of Oxford, UK      Part IV: Mothers and Others  14. Haunting Augustine: St Monnica as Mother and Interlocutor, \u003ci\u003ePatricia L. Grosse, \u003c\/i\u003eFinlandia University, USA  15. “The Typist Home at Teatime”: Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot’s Role in Shaping T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), \u003ci\u003eArwa F. Al-Mubaddel, \u003c\/i\u003eKing Saud University, Riyadh  16. Edith Tolkien in the Eye of the Beholder, \u003ci\u003eMaria Artamonova, \u003c\/i\u003eOxford University, UK  17. “Why Aren’t There More Women in Your Books?” Ann and William Golding, \u003ci\u003eNicola Presley, \u003c\/i\u003eBath Spa University, UK  18. “You’ll Say that Mum is at the Bottom of All This”: the Untold Story of Eva Larkin, \u003ci\u003ePhilip Pullen, Writer\u003c\/i\u003e    Part V: Poets and Writers  19. “Murder, He Wrote”: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, \u003ci\u003eJulia Bolton Holloway, Independent Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e  20. Golden Myfanwy: The Domestic Goddess Who Turned the Screw, \u003ci\u003eEleanor Knight, Writer\u003c\/i\u003e  21. Double Act: U.A. Fanthorpe and R.V. Bailey, Partners in Rhyme, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Sandie, \u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of York St John, UK    Epilogue  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187287089495,"sku":"9781350150058","price":26.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thanks-for-typing-9781350150058","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}