Picture No | 12688700 |
Date | 1910 |
Description | Janet Hogarth at Encyclopedia Britannica dinner 1910 |
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Janet Hogarth speaking at an Encyclopedia Britannica dinner held to celebrate the contribution of women to the recent completion of the eleventh edition. Janet Hogarth was head of the female staff and made her speech, detaling the history of female involvement in the Encyclopedia Britannica, in response to a toast to "the work of women". The title of the image "the female of man: see homo" is a reference to the definition of "woman" in the first edition of the Encyclopedia.
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Source | Illustrated by Amédée Forestier in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 24 December 1910, page 995 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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