Faculty Postholders
Mrs Janet Howarth
M.A., F.R.Hist.S.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: janet.howarth@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Mrs Howarth has published on the late-Victorian liberal party and on university history and the history of women and gender in later-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Her current research interests include university reform (circa 1870-1914), feminist biography and the history of women's education and the women's movement.
Selected Publications:
- (ed.) Emily Davies, The Higher Education of Women . (London, 1988)
- 'Women' in The History of The University of Oxford, VIII: Twentieth- Century Oxford. (Oxford, 1994)
- 'Women' in The Oxford Companion to the Second World War. (Oxford, 1995)
- (ed.) Writing University History, a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education, 23:2 . (1997)
- 'Mrs Henry Fawcett: The widow as a problem in feminist biography' in Votes for Women. (London, 2000) pp. 84-108
- 'Gender, domesticity and sexual politics' in The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles, 1815-1901. (Oxford, 2000) pp. 163-195
- 'Emily Davies' in Mujeres para la historia. Figuras destacadas del primer feminismo. (2004)
Future Publications:
- 'The Church of England and Women's Higher Education' in Politics, Intellect and Belief in Nineteenth Century Britain. Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew. (Oxford)
- Women in Britain, 1914-2000 a Reader. (London)
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