With March being Women鈥檚 History Month, our March 2023 exhibition served as a chance to look back on generations of women academics in whose footsteps our library users follow as students and teachers of modern languages.
The exhibition 鈥榃omen Through the Decades at MMLL鈥� incorporated photographs, sketches, online articles and print material, bringing to life various women who have taught modern languages at 海角社区 since the course鈥檚 inception - from back in the nineteenth century to in the 2010s.听
It showcased these women鈥檚 scholarly output held in the library but also included memoirs, poetry and children鈥檚 books they published, alongside recollections from their students and colleagues. Blurbs accompanying the exhibition told visitors of the women鈥檚 often extraordinary lives: from narrowly escaping war and revolution to working for Bletchley Park and the French Resistance, not to mention struggling to secure teaching posts in what was often a climate of rampant misogyny.
Girton College was particularly kind in providing permission for us to include a striking sketch of Odette de Mourgues giving a supervision on 16th-century French literature in 1950, as well as a photograph of Alison Fairlie lecturing to women at Girton in 1944.听
We hope that looking back at the exhibition, whether here or on , will foster a much deserved appreciation of these inspiring women and their work.
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