Greek women Archives

15/03/2023

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)

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William Miller’s (1864-1945) Greek Life in Town and Country, published in 1905, offers an overview of contemporary life in Greece at the end of the nineteenth century. The focus of…

24/08/2022

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II

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In 1899, ten years after her essay in The Women’s World on the Christian women of the East, Lucy M.J. Garnett published an article entitled “Greek Matrons and Maids” in…

10/08/2022

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I

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Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1849–1934) was a folklorist, ethnographer, and traveller, who travelled extensively in the Balkans and Middle East, recording the customs of the people she visited and publishing…

14/03/2022

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

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In 1867, a story entitled “Vasilissa”, which was published in The New Monthly Magazine, revisited the Greek War of Independence, centring on the figure of a Greek woman who is…

06/01/2022

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885)

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Theodore Bent, the archaeologist and explorer who wrote The Cyclades; or, Life among the Insular Greeks in 1885, published, in that same year, an article whose narrative is set on…

21/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

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“The Seamen of the Cyclades” features a heroic Greek woman of the Greek Revolution, who, after her Hydriote husband is blinded by a traitor, takes his place in battle, commanding…

Greek women

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885)

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

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