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364:"For those of us who had the privilege of knowing her, it won't be the teacher or researcher or organizer we're primarily grieving, however, but the friend who always seemed to have space for people, and warmth and humour to give them, though she was so busy, and though, since 2001, she was fighting serious illness. In her final years she gave us an extraordinary example of the way in which the human spirit can with dignity and grace face up to the worst trials. It is for us now to treasure the records she has left us of her own life and work, which are every bit as valiant and inspiring as those of the Welsh heroines she researched" (Jane Aaron). 298: 353:"This is a wonderful work of reconstruction from difficult sources. Ursula Masson makes a vital contribution to several aspects of modern Welsh history and provides a key part of the story of the women's suffrage movement in Wales, a dimension that enhances recent research on campaigning pressure groups in Wales. It combines general analysis for the whole of Wales with intense, fascinating studies of the contrasting communities of Cardiff and 66: 123: 25: 372:
The public Ursula Masson Memorial Lecture on the subject of gender studies is given annually at the Centre for Gender Studies in Wales at University of South Wales. The Centre also awards the Ursula Masson Memorial Prize annually for the best undergraduate dissertation in women’s or gender history.
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in Wales at University of South Wales. Her students described her as an "inspirational" teacher. Whilst teaching and organizing, she continued with her own research, editing the Aberdare Women's Liberal Association 1891–1910 papers, and completing a doctorate entitled
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and Honno Press/Gwasg Honno, the Welsh Women's Press, on the imprint Welsh Women's Classics – to bring back into print the works of forgotten Welsh women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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of women's lives, which were deposited in many cases in public archive collections in Wales, or were photographed or scanned. The results later became part of The People's Collection Wales.
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After graduating with her MA, she worked as a journalist in South Wales and Australia, before returning to teach adults in
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For Women, for Wales and for Liberalism: Women in Liberal Politics in Wales, 1800-1914,
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For Women, for Wales and for Liberalism: Women in Liberal Politics in Wales, 1880–1914
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The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage
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Ursula Masson, International Women's Day, 8 March 2003, The Old Library, Cardiff
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by Elizabeth Andrews, edited and introduced by Ursula Masson, Honno Press, 2006
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Central Library on 8 March 2019 to commemorate her life and achievements.
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In 1998 Masson and Welsh historian Deirdre Beddoe founded
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Masson edited two books in the Honno Classics series:
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of Welsh women from 1800 to 1914, and the history of
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