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When Helen Callaway and I began our travels in search of Flora Shaw, our very first encounter was with a man who threatened to set his dogs on us. We carried on, however, for our model was Flora Shaw, herself an adventurous traveller as well as the highly influential Colonial Editor for The Times in the 1890s. Like Flora Shaw, Helen was also a widely travelled woman of high spirits.
Before I talk about my “Travels with Helen,” I want to thank Maria Jaschok, director of the International Gender Studies Centre (aka Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women) for inviting me to give this talk and to thank all the members of the Centre for their warm hospitality to me for over twenty years. This has been my Oxford “home.”
Dorothy O. Helly is Emerita Professor of History and Women's Studies at Hunter College and the Graduate School at the City University of New York. A Harvard PhD, she is author of Livingstone's Legacy. Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking (1987), a co-author of Women's Realities, Women's Choices: An Introduction to Women's Studies (3d ed. 2004), and co-editor of Gendered Domains: Rethinking the Public and Private in Women's History (1992). She has published numerous articles in the fields of history, women's studies, and higher education administration. While working on the biography of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard, Helly and Callaway published the three articles mentioned in the memorial lecture and wrote Shaw's entry in the New Dictionary of National Biography (2004).