Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture

1914

Gertrude Bell

Decoratoresses

Book

The House in Good Taste

1914

Elsie de Wolfe

Decoratoresses

Book

The Honest House

1914

Ruby Ross Goodnow

On motherhood

Book

Feminism, Motherhood

母性の復興 The Renaissance of Motherhood ja sv

1914

Hiratsuka Raichō Ellen Key (translator)

On motherhood ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Domesticity, Motherhood

The Home as a Workshop, The Housewife

1910

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Novel

The Girl From the Marsh Croft

1910

Selma Lagerlöf

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Construction, Domesticity

Box Furniture: How to Make a Hundred Useful Articles for the Home

1909

Louise Brigham

Emilie Appercé on Box Furniture

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Fiction

The Lost Word

1907

Evelyn Underhill

Conversations in Preparation

Companion Text, For children

A Little Princess

1905

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Liza Fior on A Little Princess

Fantastic refuge

Essay

Utopia

Sultana’s Dream

1905

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes on Sultana’s Dream

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

Feminism

The Awakening

1899

Kate Chopin

Decoratoresses

Book

The Decoration of Houses

1898

Edith Wharton Ogden Codman

The 11th Book : Episode 18 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

The Yellow Wallpaper

1892

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

On success

Poetry

Ways of thinking

I’m nobody! Who are you?

1891

Emily Dickinson

On success

Poetry

Ways of thinking

Fame is a fickle food

1891

Emily Dickinson

On success

Poetry

Ways of thinking

Success is counted sweetest

1891

Emily Dickinson

Book

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890

Jean M. Auel

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article

Travel

Notes on Yucatan

1879

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article

Backward Ho!

1872

Frances Power Cobbe

Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Fiction

Middlemarch de

1871

George Eliot

Parity in History?

Book

Behind the Scenes

1868

Elizabeth Keckley

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Notes on Hospitals

1859

Florence Nightingale

Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

1850

Sojourner Truth

Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Fiction

Jane Eyre

1847

Charlotte Brontë

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Oral history, Travel

Journal of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal, and Glimpses of the South of Spain

1847

Dorothy Wordsworth

Parity in History?

Book

Life in Mexico during a Residence of Two Years in that Country

1843

Frances Erskine Inglis

Adrienne Enz on Life in Mexico Xinghe Guo on Life in Mexico Monika Grabski on Life in Mexico Maria Vittoria Giani on Life in Mexico Valmira Haziri on Life in Mexico

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

A Visit to Italy

1842

Frances Trollope

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Poetry

Burning Lord’s and Common’s

1836

Caroline Norton

Parity in History? Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Oral history, Travel

Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822 and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823

1824

Maria Graham

Anne Hultzsch on Journal of a Residence in Chile Stefania Archilli on Residence in Chile Carolina Catarino Gomes on Residence in Chile Miranda Reynolds on Residence in Chile Laia Meier on Residence in Chile

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

Letters Written During a Tour Through Normandy, Brittany and Other Parts of France in 1818

1820

Anna Eliza Bray

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Fiction

Spectra

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus

1818

Mary Shelley

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

The Beauties of the Bosphorus

1814

Julia Pardoe

Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Domesticity, Shared space

Pride and Prejudice

1813

Jane Austen

Adam Caruso on Pride and Prejudice

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Article

Travel

Great Cave at Carli, Dec. 17th 1809

1813

Maria Graham

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

Columbo Feb. 28, 1810

1813

Maria Graham

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

A Tour in Switzerland: Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris

1798

Helen Maria Williams

Anne Hultzsch on A Tour in Switzerland

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

1796

Mary Wollstonecraft

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, With a Return Down the Rhine: To Which Are Added, Observations During a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland

1795

Ann Radcliffe

Parity in History?

Book

Feminism, Ways of thinking

An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution

1794

Mary Wollstonecraft

Michael Tan on An Historical and Moral View Martin Kohlberger on An Historical and Moral View Corinne Räz on An Historical and Moral View Amélie Lambert on An Historical and Moral View

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany

1789

Hester Lynch Piozzi

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Oral history, Travel

The Turkish Embassy Letters

1763

Mary Wortley Montagu

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Diary

Travel

Travel Journal

1707

Elizabeth Burnet

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

Book, Diary

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

1010

Murasaki Shikibu Richard Bowring (translator)

Feminism and Architecture

Article

Food

Transforming the Food Axis: Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis

Elizabeth Collins Cromley

The Architecture of Accra

Article

Domesticity, Shared space

Urban Models, Building Types and Estate Transformations: An analysis of the public housing estates of Nairobi, Accra, Douala, and Lomé

Pauline M. Bezemer