A Feminist Case Study in Transnational Migration: The Anne Jemima Clough Journals

Product Description Although until now virtually unacknowledged in the field of women' education, Anne Jemima Clough was active throughout her long life in the field. Among other positions, she held the position of principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, for more than a decade, from 1880 until her death in 1892. But in spite of her prominent position, her achievements were overshadowed by her more visible and vocal contemporaries in higher education, such as Emily Davies and Josephine Butler. Nevertheless, she was always a loyal and tenacious follower and an uncomplaining worker. In a subdued way she lived and labored fervently for the furtherance of women's education. Quietly, and with remarkably little encouragement or guidance, she pursued and finally realized her dream, a dream that would at last allow her to help make education accessible to all women. In this volume I have compiled, edited, and annotated most of Anne Jemima Clough's unpublished papers. In addition to transcribing her diaries, or notebooks, I have incorporated chronologically into the text some examples of the voluminous amount of correspondence she wrote and received during a long life filled with activity. The Anne Jemima Clough papers will not only provide raw material for scholars studying the women's movement during the nineteenth century, but they will also be a useful and engaging read for all students and scholars of the women's movement, education, Victorian feminism and gender studies. Review What Mary Gallant is offering here is a tremendous insight into the life of Miss Clough before her prestigious nomination to Newnham, giving the reader a remarkable view of a Victorian girlhood, and the formative years and experiences which helped forge her personality and her career. The records are extremely vivid, and offer superb insights into a variety of domains. . . One reads these evocations with fascinations and often delight, as both an era, and the remarkable life of a single woman, are brought into view. The reader's task is made all the easier by very detailed notes accompanying each chapter, in which the editor gives background historical and biographical information, cross-references certain entries, recalls the different stages of Anne's life and highlights links to more recent historical studies. . . . the reader can only be enchanted by the rich work and grateful to Ms Gallant for having brought to light such a rich documentary source that had been so long overlooked. She thus paves the way for a subsequent generation of students and scholars who can conflate these papers with others of the same era, explore new aspects of Victorian life. . . --Claire Davison-Pegon, Universite de Provonce, Cahiers Victoriens et Edourdiens, no73, April 2011 About the Author Mary Gallant holds a B.A. in Spanish from Florida State University, an M.A. from Rollins College, and a Master's in Library Science from the University of South Florida. She has worked in numerous libraries as a reference librarian and an operations manager in Special Collections. While doing graduate research in Cambridge, England, on Victorian women's education, she discovered the Anne Jemima Clough papers. Ms. Gallant is presently Acquisitions and Serials Control Librarian at California Western School of Law; in addition, she is an independent scholar, researcher and writer.