Exploring the Life of Edith Fetherston through her Clothing

This research is an examination of the life of Edith Fetherston through studying her clothing and comparing her clothes to fashion history. The authors of Survey of Historic Costume, Tortora and Eubank, state that: 'Dress serves as a means of communication,' and that 'historic dress provides readers with some context for the period in which costumes were worn'. Most importantly, they state that clothing is 'a glimpse of attitudes and values as they were expressed by individuals of [a] period.' (4). Studying clothing history is a way to understand the attitudes of the times; it has a relationship with the attitudes of the society in which it is or was worn. Studying garments can identify personalities, as well as professions, and economic status. My research is based on the wardrobe of Edith Fetherston between the early twenties and late sixties. This thesis begins by examining Edith herself, then it examines each decade and its major characteristics, and finally my research examines at least two garments from each of the five decades.

War and Revolution in St. Petersburg : Modernist Links in the Poetry of Edith Södergran and Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

Important modernists in their own countries, Anna Akhmatova and Edith Södergran are compared in this dissertation as poets whose poetry reflects the climactic events of the early twentieth century in Finland and Russia. A comparatist, biographical and historical approach is used to uncover the circumstances surrounding these events. First the poets’ early works are reviewed and their contemporaries are mentioned to provide a poetic context. Then a brief review of Finnish and Russian history situates them historically. Next, the rich literary diversity of St. Petersburg’s Silver Age is presented and the work of the poets is viewed in context before their poetry is compared, as the First World War, October Revolution and subsequent Finnish Civil War impact their writing. While biography is not the primary focus, it becomes important as inevitably the writers’ lives are changed by cataclysmic events and the textual analysis of the poems in Swedish, Russian and English shows the impact of war on their poetry. These two poets have not been compared before in a critical review in English and this work contributes to needed work in English. They share certain common modernist traits: attention to the word, an intimate, unconventional voice, and a concern with audience. In addition, they both reject formal traditions while they adopt new forms and use modern, outside influences such as art, architecture and philosophy as subject matter and a lens through which to focus their poetry. While it may seem that Anna Akhmatova was the most socially aware poet, because of the censorship she endured under Stalin, my research has revealed that actually Edith Södergran showed the most social consciousness. Thus, a contrast of the poets’ themes reveals these differences in their approaches. Both poets articulated a vibrant response to war and revolution becoming modernists in the process. In their final works created in the years before their deaths, they reveal the solace they found in nature as well as final mentions of the violent events of their youth. Keywords: St. Petersburg, Modernism, Symbolism, Acmeism, Silver Age, Finland-Swedish literature

Wedding portrait of Kurt Godshaw (Gottschalk) and Edith Godshaw nee Osterer; Quito, Ecuador. Portraits Couples

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Kurt and Edith Godshaw (Gottschalk) nee Osterer during a visit with Maren Matthiesen; Switzerland.

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Walter, Ilse, Freddy, Ursula, and Rudolf Gottschalk with Edith Braunschweig in costumes dancing to a minuet for the 80th birthday celebration of Henriette Gottschalk; Hannover, Germany. Portraits Children

On 5 Oct 1929 the family got together in Hannover to celebrate the 80th Birthday of Henrietta Gottschalk nee Rothschild where the children danced a minuet by Beethoven or Mozart; left to right: Grandniece Edith Braunschweig, Walter Gottschalk, Ilse Gottschalk, Freddy Gottschalk, Ursula Gottschalk, and Rudolf Gottschalk

Studio portrait of Edith Nesanov nee Strauss with her husband Simon and son Assaf; Israel.

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Edith Nesanov nee Strauss dancing the hora; Kibbutz Chulala(?), Israel.

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Wedding portrait of Kurt Godshaw (Gottschalk) and Edith Godshaw nee Osterer; Quito, Ecuador. Portraits Couples

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Kurt and Edith Godshaw (Gottschalk) nee Osterer during a visit with Maren Matthiesen; Switzerland.

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Before the Holocaust: Letters to Alice (and Edith) 1939-1941.

Collection of transcribed 32 letters with accompanying notes, photographs and family trees. The letters were written by Flora Mattersheim Kleinmann to her daughter Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein and her granddaughter Edith from Vienna between July 1939 and October 1941. Introduced and edited by Ruth Leeds Love (Inge Ruth Loewenstein), Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein's granddaughter; transcripts by Herbert Weber.

La noción de alma que propone Edith Stein en “La estructura de la persona humana” : continuidad y novedad

Resumen: Algunos capítulos del último curso de antropología dictado por la filósofa Edith Stein, antes de su entrada a la vida contemplativa en el Carmelo, permiten relevar continuidades y novedades con respecto a Aristóteles y a Santo Tomás de Aquino en torno a la noción de alma y a su función integradora. Se enumeran en primer lugar algunas coincidencias entre los tres filósofos, para mostrar después los enfoques característicos de cada uno, destacando la independencia de criterio y la originalidad de Tomás sobre Aristóteles y de Edith Stein sobre ambos. Se repasan las diferentes maneras de entender el alma como acto y como forma y su modo de vinculación con el cuerpo, mostrando que la herencia de un vocabulario que puede tender al dualismo, no invalida la tesis de la unidad substancial del viviente.