ATHLETES from Leander Club, Henley and Upper Thames Rowing Clubs will be represented in 41 boats at this year’s six-day Henley Royal Regatta that gets und.
BREAD LOAF INN, 1895.
Images courtesy of the Collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum
From the Sheldon Museum Archives: Last year we published several articles about remarkable local women in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted most American women the right to vote. In this two-part series, we focus on two amazing women who challenged the status quo of late nineteenth-century life. Their stories offer just a glimpse of what is hidden in our archives. This is the second article published in this series. Read the first here.
Central to the stories of both Sophonisba and W.C.P Breckinridge, but absent from our archive, like so many others, is Madeleine Pollard. Born in 1866 the same year as Sophonisba Pollard had similar ambitions for public life, but few opportunities. Like Sophonisba, she excelled in school, where she was lauded as a promising writer, but her humble background forced her to rely on the