{"id":31763,"date":"2024-01-12T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31763"},"modified":"2024-01-12T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:37:11","slug":"museum-exhibition-showcases-abingdon-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31763","title":{"rendered":"Museum Exhibition showcases Abingdon Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024011201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Museum has started 2024 with an exhibition called &#8220;Celebrating Abingdon Women in the Arts and Sciences.&#8221; It showcases some of the incredible women who lived in Abingdon<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024011202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Art and crafts<\/strong>: Pat Russell and Janet Boulton opened their own paper-making studio, while Charlotte Hardcastle created accurate drawings of plants.<br \/>\n<strong>History<\/strong>: Agnes Baker brought history to life through books, plays, and historical processions. Gabrielle Lambrick explored the secrets of Abingdon Abbey. Mieneke Cox helped tell the town&#8217;s story through museum exhibits and books. Marion Wenzel took care of the Abbey buildings and produced artwork.<br \/>\n<strong>Science<\/strong>: Mary Buckland made detailed drawings of fossils.<br \/>\n<strong>Writing<\/strong>: Dorothy Richardson wrote some of the first stream-of-consciousness novels.<\/p>\n<p>There are information boards, artwork, and a video slideshow showing these and other women, and groups of women, some you may know.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is run by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council and you can see more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/event\/exhibition-celebrating-abingdon-women-in-the-arts-and-sciences\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/event\/exhibition-celebrating-abingdon-women-in-the-arts-and-sciences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the women also appear on the Abingdon People website:<br \/>\nAgnes Baker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/agnes-baker\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/agnes-baker<\/a><br \/>\nMary Buckland: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/mary-buckland-nee-morland\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/mary-buckland-nee-morland<\/a><br \/>\nMieneke Cox: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/mieneke-cox\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/mieneke-cox<\/a><br \/>\nGabrielle Lambrick: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/gabrielle-lambrick\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon_people\/gabrielle-lambrick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon Museum has started 2024 with an exhibition called &#8220;Celebrating Abingdon Women in the Arts and Sciences.&#8221; It showcases some of the incredible women who lived in Abingdon Art and crafts: Pat Russell and Janet Boulton opened their own paper-making studio, while Charlotte Hardcastle created accurate drawings of plants. History: Agnes Baker brought history to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}