Name/TitlePast Participants: a lesbian diary for 1984
MakerMohin, Lilian & Wilson, Anna
About this objectSmall paperback publication with purple covers titled 'Past Participants: a lesbian diary for 1984' by Lilian Mohin and Anna Wilson. Published by Onlywomen Press, priced £2.95. The blurb states that the diary is "Illustrated with biographies and pictures of strong lesbians from Britain's past - artists, dancers, printers, politicians, pirates - all women who derived inspiration and strength from loving women." The women featured are:
- Catherine Philips 1631 - 1664
- Anne Bonney and Mary Read - 18th century pirates
- Elizabeth Carter 1717 - 1806
- Hannah Snell 1723 - 1792
- Helen Oliver - early 19th century
- Mary Ann Talbot 1778 - 1808
- Anna Jameson 1794 - 1860
- James Miranda Barry 1799 - 1865
- Geraldine Jewsbury 1812 - 1880
- Frances Power Cobbe 1822 - 1904 (see cover image)
- Emily Faithfull 1835 - 1895
- Sophia Jex-Blake 1840 - 1912
- Eleanor Jourdain 1863 - 1924
- Cicely Hamilton 1872 - 1952
- Ethel Smyth 1858 - 1944
- Edith Craig 1869 - 1947
- Maud Allen 1870 - 1956
- Lilian Barker 1874 - 1955
- Eleanor Rathbone 1872 - 1946
- Gluck 1895 - 1978
- Nancy Spain 1917 - 1964
Partly digitised (7 pages incl. front pages and introduction)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 148 x W: 105 X D: 8 mm
Date Made1983
Period1980s
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesOnlywomen Press Ltd, 38 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AP.
PublisherOnlywomen Press
Publication Date1983
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onlywomen_Press:
Onlywomen Press (briefly known as The Women's Press) was a feminist press based in London. It was the only feminist press to be founded by out lesbians, Lilian Mohin, Sheila Shulman, and Deborah Hart. It commenced publishing in 1974 and was one of five notably active feminist publishers in the 1990s. Onlywomen was unique from other British feminist presses because it both printed and published material. This allowed them to control all parts of the "chain of cultural production and to "subsidize publishing activity" by printing books. Between 1986 and 1988 it published the journal Gossip: A Journal of Lesbian Feminist Ethics. Writers published in the press often read their work at Gay's the Word. A number of noted lesbian writers published by Onlywomen Press include Anna Livia, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Jay Taverner, Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, Sylvia Martin and Sheila Jeffreys. Its last book, a children's book, was published in 2010.
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's history
Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ+
Named CollectionLesbian Archive @ Glasgow Women's Library
Object TypeDiary
ISBN/ISSN0 906500 12 5
Object numberGWL-2023-30-1
Spine LabelPast Participants ~ diary 1984 ~ Onlywomen Press
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved