TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phipps,Pauline A.
TI  - Constance Maynard's Passions: Religion, Sexuality, and an English Educational Pioneer, 1849-1935 
SN  - 9781442650336
AV  - LA2375.G72 .P457 2015
U1  - 370.92 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Christian women
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Middle class women
KW  - Women educators
KW  - Women
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - EDUCATION / Administration / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: “Seeking Great Reward from Thee” --; 1. “Sweetest of Earth’s Glories, Love!” 1849–1871 --; 2. “Crisis, Restraint and Liberty” 1869–1872 --; 3. “Caught in the Current” 1872–1875 --; 4. “An Unhappy Marriage” 1876–1880 --; 5. “A Man or a Woman?” 1880–1883 --; 6. “Years of Gloom” 1883–1894 --; 7. “Glorious New Spring” 1896–1913 --; Conclusion: “Shadow of ‘Outer Darkness’ Close to Me” --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Successful but self-tormented, English educational pioneer Constance Maynard (1849–1935) was a deeply religious evangelical Christian whose personal atonement theology demanded that one resist carnal feelings to achieve personal salvation. As the founder of Westfield College at the University of London, Maynard championed women’s access to a university education. As the college’s first principal, she also engaged in a string of passionate relationships with college women in which she imagined love as God’s gift as well as a test of her faith.Using Maynard’s extensive personal papers, especially her diaries and autobiography, Pauline A. Phipps examines how the language of her faith offered Maynard the means with which to carve out an independent career and to forge a distinct same-sex sexual self-consciousness in an era when middle-class women were expected to be subservient to men and confined to the home. Constance Maynard’s Passions is the fascinating account of a life which confounds the usual categories of faith, gender, and sexuality
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442622852
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