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archive ennui?
Paper Women's lives began at many intervals. She has no single origin or mother. This is important for her identity-- an identity which she believes as challenging the process and performance of a...
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Muse on the Night Before
So she hit the streets last night, the statues, the bridges and the soil. One thing that was striking about her first big night on the town was that it was mostly men who looked, laughed, defaced her...
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Mah Ar-Pennants Over Tomorrow (For Hilda Murrell & All Spinsters Who Protest)
Men' s names are carved in stone.Their weighty legacy: a mantraA song sheet of permanenceA dozen names in the first line alone-a found poem!BRISTOL MAYORS: ROGER CORDEWANER 1216ADAM PAGE 1217 MARTIN...
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A Poem Paper Women!
Because this poem by Pat West is so beautiful and so 'fitting' for the project, the poem has become a Paperwoman in her own right!The poem was published in a collection by "Rive Gauche" entitled Women...
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Article 20
Mary Baker/Princess Caraboo (1791-1865)In April 1817, a distressed young woman appeared at the door of a cottage in Almondsbury, near Bristol. She spoke no English, and, baffled, the villagers sent for...
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Daughters of the Said
It has been a while, and like all Paperwomen, we've blown about, scattered, been screwed up, written on, posted, sent to London, re-sent to York, received, and arrived: here I guess a little later than...
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Bristol's Bonny Battler
Jessie Stephen (1893- 1979)“Too many assumed that the victory of women’s suffrage would bring other benefits automatically. When the women were glorying in this new found so-called freed, we were only...
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Spring Clean
The crocuses are blossoming and the birds are singing again-- which means its time for a big Spring Clean... and like every good woman, paperwoman's house got a little messy in 2010-- bear with her as...
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Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941)
Born in Hull, Amy graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Sheffield, gaining an "A" grade pilot licence in 1929, and becoming the first woman to gain a ground engineer certificate...
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Mary Bateman (1768-1809): AKA the "Yorkshire Witch"
Mary was born into a "respectable" but poor Yorkshire farming family. She went into domestic service in Thirsk- but was discharged for theft. After working in York she fled to Leeds without pay or...
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Paper Woman of Stone!!
Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) Famous for inventing "Coade Stone"-- a durable stone, which looks "new" even today. But less famous for being an unmarried pioneering business woman, forced to call herself...
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Mary Taylor (1817-1893)
Born in 1817 a Red House at Gomersal, the West Riding of Yorkshire, Mary soon rebelled from her traditional, wool-merchant roots. Leaving the confines of the West-Riding she taught boys in Germany, and...
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Article 12
We're at the Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism, and have just found out about a sister project in Edinburgh: VENUS ENVY. Take a look at them...
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Betty Radice
Betty Radice, translator and editor of the Penguin Classics from 1964 to 1985, was born in Hessle, near Hull, in 1912. Newland High School, in Hull, like nearly all schools for young women, did not...
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Alice Tredwell--The Accidental Railway Engineer
As part of my research for a conference paper about the 'engineering diaspora' from Britain in the second half of the 19th century, I spent a few days in the Institution of Civil Engineers' archives...
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Paper Women Still There!
In the two weeks since the Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism in York (http://www.feminist-cultural-activism.net/) Paper Women are still re-facing statues. See photos here:...
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Paper Women Marching for an Alternative?
So, yesterday many Paper Women went to London to make their bodies (tired, sweaty, thirsty) shout against what is happening by a government who just doesn't think. Or at least doesn't think about how...
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That's the way to do it-- Rosie the Riveter!
A big thanks to Carolyn Dougherty for pointing this out (and for being an all round ace PW!).In 2000 a visual artist (Susan Schwartzenberg) and landscape architect/environmental sculptor (Cheryl...
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las mujeres de papel... papewomen in spain
Clara Campoamor (1888–1972): Anna Jonsson's Seville Sculpture.Walking through the hot streets of Seville at the weekend, like you do if you're a Paper Woman in need of sun and cerveza, I came across...
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