Name/TitleThe Forging of Passion Into Power
MakerBoole, Mary Everest
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectHardback book with olive green covers titled 'The Forging of Passion Into Power' by Mary Everest Boole. The contents are:
- Preface
1. Introductory
2. The Training of the Imagination
3. Economy of Force
4. Destructive Mania
5. Suicidal Mania
6. Morality and Art
7. Sex Instincts
8. Protective Instincts
9. Balance of the Nervous System
10. The Invert Consciousness
11. The Fixing of Good Habits
12. Conscious and Unconscious Mind
13. Hypereasthesia - Adumbrations - Hallucinations - Hysteria
14. Mobility and Decision
15. The Steadying of the Imagination
16. Teacher-Lust
17. The New Idea of Order
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, board and paper
MeasurementsH: 230 x W: 150 x D: 20 mm
Date Made1910
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesC. W. Daniel, 3 Amen Corner, London E.C.
PublisherC. W. Daniel
Publication Date1910
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Everest_Boole:
Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician married to logical pioneer George Boole during his years in Cork, Ireland. She is known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra. Her progressive ideas on education, as expounded in The Preparation of the Child for Science, included encouraging children to explore mathematics through playful activities such as curve stitching. Her life is of interest to feminists as an example of how women made careers in an academic system that did not welcome them. ... As well as working as a librarian, she also tutored privately in mathematics and developed a philosophy of teaching that involved the use of natural materials and physical activities to encourage an imaginative conception of the subject. Her interest extended beyond mathematics to Darwinian theory, philosophy and psychology and she organised discussion groups on these subjects among others. At Queen's College, against the approval of the authorities, she organised discussion groups of students with the unconventional James Hinton, a promulgator of polygamy. This in part led to her mental breakdown and the dispersal of her children. In later life, she belonged to the circle of the Tolstoyan pacifist publisher, C. W. Daniel; she chose the name The Crank for his magazine because, she said, 'a crank was a little thing that made revolutions'. Mary took an active interest in politics, introducing her daughter Ethel to the Russian anti-tsarist cause under Sergei Stepniak. After the Boer war 1899–1902 she became more outspoken in her writings against imperialism, organised religion, the financial world and the tokenism she felt that Parliament represented. She opposed women's suffrage and probably for this reason has not generally been regarded as a feminist. She died in 1916, at the age of 84. Boole was a practitioner of homeopathic medicine [continues].
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Subject and Association Keywordshealth - mental wellbeing
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2025-113-1
Spine LabelTHE FORGING OF PASSION INTO POWER ~ M. E. BOOLE ~ LONDON: C. W. DANIEL
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved