Organ Benches and Bicycle Seats: Pedalists in Victorian England Part 2 Bicycle Seats As the nineteenth century progressed, English women benefited from increasingly liberal social attitudes about their education, physical…
Organ Benches and Bicycle Seats: Pedalists in Victorian England Part 1 Organ Benches In a 1927 retrospective account of organs and organists, Charles Pearce, then Vice President of the Royal…
Women Organists in Victorian Fiction Part 2 Women had been serving as organists in England’s churches – though not in its cathedrals and royal and collegiate chapels – since the…
Women Organists in Victorian Fiction Part 1 The image of music in fiction, especially involving women musicians, offers a rich area of discourse for scholars of Victorian literature. Mary Burgan,…
Playing Upon Versus Playing With the Organ: The Reception of the Organ Recital in Victorian England Part 2 Elizabeth Stirling certainly was not the only organist to play at the…
Playing Upon Versus Playing With the Organ: The Reception of the Organ Recital in Victorian England Part 1 I invite you to put yourselves in the shoes of a nineteenth-century…
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…