{"id":563,"date":"2016-12-13T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/?p=563"},"modified":"2022-04-13T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:06:50","slug":"kathleen-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/kathleen-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational People: 3. Kathleen Freeman &#8211; Classicist and Fiction Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>For the third instalment of our \u201cInspirational People\u201d series, we are looking at the inspirational life of an early Classicist at the University.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-566\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-566\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/396\/2016\/12\/KFreeman.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Freeman, 1922\" width=\"248\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen Freeman, 1922<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Name:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Freeman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Profession:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lecturer in Greek<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appointed 1919 \u2013 Resigned 1946<\/p>\n<p><strong>AKA:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Mary Fitt (1936\u201360)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Stuart Mary Wick (1948; 1950)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Clare St. Donat (1950)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Caroline Cory (1956)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kathleen Freeman was a prolific fiction writer and published a large number of works, predominantly detective stories, under the above pseudonyms.<\/li>\n<li>She studied at Cardiff, graduating with her BA in 1918. Her registration form is reproduced below. She also went on to obtain a Masters\u2019 Degree in 1922 and a DLitt in 1940.<\/li>\n<li>In the Second World War, she gave lectures on Greece to forces stationed in south Wales.<\/li>\n<li>She resigned following the War in 1946 and focused on publishing books on classical subjects for a non-academic audience.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to know more, there\u2019s a really interesting blog post about Katherine Freeman which discusses the implicit sexism surrounding the reception of her work. The post is written by Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King&#8217;s College London, who argues that Freeman has long been grossly and unfairly underestimated by scholars and that her work should be recognised as both useful and worthwhile. (The blog post, \u2018How to Conceal a Female Scholar; or, the Invisible Classicist of Cardiff\u2019 is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/edithorial.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/05\/how-to-conceal-female-scholar-or.html\">http:\/\/edithorial.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/05\/how-to-conceal-female-scholar-or.html<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/396\/2016\/12\/Freeman.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Freeman's student registration form.\" width=\"418\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/396\/2016\/12\/Freeman.jpg 418w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/396\/2016\/12\/Freeman-282x400.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen Freeman&#8217;s student registration form.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third instalment of our \u201cInspirational People\u201d series, we are looking at the inspirational life of an early Classicist at the University. \u00a0 Kathleen Freeman, 1922 Name:\u00a0\u00a0 Kathleen Freeman [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutionalarchive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WM6Y-95","meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/cuarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}