Artikel
The reputation of Isabella Fyvie Mayo : interpretations of a life
Verfasst von:
Moore, Lindy
in:
Wallingford:
2010
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71 - 88 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Moore, Lindy |
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| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Isabella Fyvie Mayo was a friend of both Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi. She became an ethical anarchist, pacifist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist campaigner. But she is remembered today only as a second-rate Victorian novelist, who called a middle-aged Quaker a nymphomaniac and precipitated a split in a pioneering British anti-racism organisation, supposedly because of her 'opposition' to mixed-race marriages. This article examines her posthumous reputation to explore the difficulties of retrieving a life embedded in many different social, political and geographical contexts and it looks at some of the contemporary incidents and coincidences and modern academic processes which may cause the misconstruction of a biography. It includes an examination of the history of the Society for the Recognition of the Brotherhood of Man and the impact of accounts by Vron Ware and Ida B. Wells-Barnett of Mayo's role in the anti-lynching campaign of the 1890s. | |
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