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\r\n\r\nConstance Maynard (1849-1935), founder and first principal of Westfield College at the University of London, championed women’s university education. A devout evangelical whose theology demanded resisting carnal feeling, she nonetheless formed a series of passionate relationships with college women, imagining love as both God’s gift and a test of faith. Drawing on Maynard’s diaries and autobiography, Pauline A. Phipps shows how the language of faith let her build an independent career and a distinct same-sex sexual self-consciousness at a time when middle-class women were expected to stay at home and defer to men.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n
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Title: <\/strong>\u00a0Constance Maynard’s Passions<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Author: <\/strong>\u00a0Pauline A. Phipps<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
ISBN: <\/strong>\u00a09781442650336<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Subtitle: <\/strong>\u00a0Religion, Sexuality, and an English Educational Pioneer, 1849-1935<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Genre: <\/strong>\u00a0Autobiography\/Biography; History; Lesbian Studies; Religion & Spirituality<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Subject(s): <\/strong>\u00a0Christian Women – Biography. – Great Britain; Lesbians – Biography. – Great Britain; Middle Class Women – Biography. – Great Britain; Women – Education (Higher) – Great Britain; Women Educators – Biography. – Great Britain<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Publication Date: <\/strong>\u00a02015-08-17<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Publisher: <\/strong>\u00a0University of Toronto Press<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Language: <\/strong>\u00a0English<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Format: <\/strong>\u00a0Hardcover<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Pages: <\/strong>\u00a0304<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Rating: <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Notes: <\/strong>\u00a0Setting: England, Westfield College, London.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Book_ID: <\/strong>\u00a0119059<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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