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Blackwood family. Dame Helen Hermione Munro Ferguson, Viscountess Novar GBE (14 March 1865 – 9 April 1941) was a Red Cross leader, as well as an advocate for nursing and healthcare and political activist.
19 de nov. de 2010 · This article assesses the possible impact imperial childhoods had on later imperial women using one case study: that of Lady Helen Munro Ferguson [later Viscountess Novar]. She spent a large portion of her own childhood in imperial circles and was later an imperial woman in her own right as the Governor-General's wife in Australia ...
- Melanie Oppenheimer
- 2010
Lady Helen Munro Ferguson during the First World War. Lord Novar married Lady Helen Hermione (1863 – 9 April 1941), daughter of Lord Dufferin, in 1889. The union was childless. They lived at 18 Portman Square, when in London. He was a member of the Athenaeum and Reform Clubs.
The focus of this article, Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, later Viscountess Novar, was perhaps the most influential Australian female vice-regal leader of the early 20thcentury. As the wife of our sixth governor-general, Lady Helen played a key leadership role among Australian women during and after her six years here.
This article assesses the possible impact imperial childhoods had on later imperial women using one case study: that of Lady Helen Munro Ferguson [later Viscountess Novar].
- Melanie Oppenheimer
On 31 August 1889 after a visit to India, Munro Ferguson married Lady Helen Hermione Blackwood (1865-1941), daughter of the viceroy, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, an able and imperious woman on whose judgement of politics and of protocol he relied absolutely.
The case of a seemingly vanished humanitarian biography is taken up by Oppenheimer, who considers the intersection of biography and humanitarianism to explore the life and transnational career of Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, who played a significant leadership role in many areas of women’s activism in Britain in the first decades of the ...
