Category: Manuscript for a Librarian
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Manuscript. Archive of a Procession
Comprising Nine Folders and Numerous Diagrams. Manuscript is an archive of the research that lead to the Procession of Contraceptive Plants and Forgotten Midwives at Middelheim Museum in June 2023. The work consists of over a thousand parts: documents, diagrams, recipes, narratives, hysteries, errorpoems, duets across the Atlantic, working drawings for banners, patterns for pockets,…
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Midwife’s Herball Middelheim / Diagram
TABLING THE VIRTUES, SOMEWHAT ABBREVIATED, OF TWELVE PLANTS ONCE KNOWN TO BE VERY USEFUL TO WOMEN-IN-NEED, GROWING WILD, CULTIVATED, GATHERED OR TRADED – THEN, NOW, OR AT ONE TIME – IN AND AROUND THE PARK OF THE MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM
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Mary Lowndes and Suffragette banners
The form of the banners made for Procession at Middelheim Museum is influenced by the work of Suffragette artist Mary Lowndes. In 1909 she published her manifesto On Banners and Banner-making in the form of a pamphlet A banner is not a literary affair, it is not a placard; leave such to boards and sandwichmen.…