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Report by Askanasy on "My Mediterranean
Journey, Aug 26, 1964 - January 2nd, 1965"
Anna H. Askanasy was a Viennese woman who emigrated from Nazi Austria to Canada in 1938. Askanasy was involved in the women's movement and part of a circle of feminists which included Mary Beard and Rosika Schwimmer. She also appears to have been active in the movement for peace which emerged in response to the beginnings of the First World War. Askanasy's letters to Margaret Grierson, founder of the Sophia Smith Collection, reveal that she was deeply passionate about women's history and very interested in the potential of the Collection. Askanasy was an amateur women's historian herself and published a historical novel
The Anna H. Askanasy papers consist of one linear foot of correspondence, travel journals, and writings. The letters and cards exchanged by Askanasy and Margaret Grierson provide an engaging and insightful commentary on the social, economic, and political situation in the U.S. and Canada between 1950 and 1970. Askanasy's journals, like her letters, are not only colorful, vivid accounts of her travels around the world but powerful and historically contingent commentaries on her lived experience. Her writings reveal that she was a fiery, articulate and opinionated woman of the world.
This collection is organized into three series:
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions.
Copyright ownership of Anna H. Askanasy's writings is unknown. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Anna H. Askanasy Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Anna H. Askanasy papers donated her papers to the Sophia Smith Collection from 1949 to 1970.
Processed by Indus Chadha, SSC intern, 2006.
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Additional papers of Askanasy are located at the Women's Library of the London Metropolitan University. Correspondence with Robert Briffault is kept with his collection at the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections at McMaster University Library Ontario, Canada. Letters to Mary Beard are held with the Charles and Mary Beard Papers in the Archives of Depauw University.