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FOCUS/FOKUS: PHYLLIS LEWSEN

Phyllis Lewsen's Writing: An Appreciation

Pages 33-39 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • Lewsen , P. 1942 . ‘The First Crisis in Responsible Government in the Cape Colony’ . Archives Year Book for South African History , 5 2 In an appendix, she gave a lengthy extract from a letter of Merriman dated 19 Feb. 1878
  • Lewsen , P. “ John X. Merriman ” . typescript, vol. 1, p. 2
  • Lewsen , P. “ What History Means to Me ” . above, p. 10
  • Lewsen , P. 1953 . “ The South African Jewish Community ” . In The South African Way of Life Edited by: Caipin , H. London in G., ed.
  • Lewsen , P. Selections from the Correspondence of John X. Merriman 4 vols. (Cape Town, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1969). Some thought she did not select enough, and that the Van Riebeeck Society had been too indulgent in allowing her four volumes
  • Jeff , s. 1984 . “ Guy's life ol Colenso was published in 1983, followed shortly by Brian Willan ” . In SolPlaatje: A Biography London Major biographies of Moshoeshoe by Thompson and Sanders appeared in the early 1970(and Tim Couzens, The New African: A Study of the Life and Work ofH.lE. Dhlomo (Johannesburg, 1985)
  • Lewsen , P. “ John X. Merriman ” . Dictionary of South African Biop-aphy, vol. 2 (Cape Town, 1972), 463–69; P. Lewsen, ‘John X. Merriman’, Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, vol. 7 (Belhville, 1972), 339–41; P. Lewsen, ‘Merriman as Last Cape Prime Minister”, South African Historical Journal, 7 (1975)
  • Copies of the full text of the biography, before it was shortened, are available in four volumes of 1 082 pages of text and 149 pages of footnotes in the South African Library, the University of the Witwatersrand Library, and the London Library
  • Lewsen , P. 1982 . John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman New Haven and Johannesburg
  • Lewsen , P. ‘The Cape Liberal Tradition—Myth or Reality’, in University of London, Collected Seminar Papers on the Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries, vol. 1, and also in Institute for the Study of Man in Africa Papers, 26 (1969) and in Race, 13 (1971)
  • Lewsen , P. ‘The Language of the Historian’, English Studies in Africa, 13 (1970), 356, 357
  • Lewsen , P. “ ‘Cape Liberalism in its Terminal Phase’ ” . Edited by: Hindson , D. in, ed, Working Papers in Southern African Studies, vol. 3 (Johannesburg, 1983)
  • For example, P. Lewsen, review of K. Ingham, Jan Christian Smuts, in South African Historical Journal, 19 (1987);P. Lewsen, “The Oxford History of South Africa: An Attempt at Revaluation’, South African Historical Journal, 5 (1973)
  • Lewsen , P. and Bozzoli , B. , eds. 1983 . “ ‘Focus on Ordinary Folk and Resilient Cultures’ ” . In Town and Countryside in the Transvaal Johannesburg For example, ed. newspaper cutting (29 Aug. 1983)
  • Lewsen , P. 1982 . The South African Constitution: Euphoria and Rejection 1 – 2 . Raymond Dart Lecture 19, Johannesburg esp. pp. She concluded: ‘Will a new constitution adamantly try to perpetuate White domination? And if so, how long can it last?’ (p. 18)
  • Lewsen , P. 1987 . “ ‘Liberals in Politics and Administration, 1936–1948’ ” . In Democratic Liberalism in South Africa: Its History and Prospect Edited by: Butler , J. , Elphick , R. and Welsh , D. 115 Middletown and Cape Town in, eds
  • Lewsen , P. , ed. 1988 . Voices of Protest: From Segregation to Apartheid, 1938–1948 Johannesburg ed
  • Lewsen , P. 1983 . Olive Schreiner Edited by: Clayton , C. 220 Isando ‘Olive Schreiner's Political Theories and Pamphlets’ in, ed, The quotation is from p.
  • Rose , B. Edited by: Clayton , C. review of, ed., Olive Schreiner, Rand Daily Mail, 9 Jan. 1984
  • Lewsen , P. 1991 . “ Helen Suzman: ” . In The Solo Years Johannesburg P. Lewsen, ‘Not Free to Desist’, in R. Lee, ed., Values Alive (Johannesburg, n.d.), quotations from pp. 6, 22
  • Saunders , C. ‘Jean van der Poel, Historian’ . Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library , The contribution of women to South African historiography has yet to be assessed. Of those in academic posts, Jean van der Poel of the University of Cape Town had a longer academic career than Lewsen, but was not made an Associate Professor, see, 41 (Dec. 1986).Professor Winifred Maxwell at Rhodes, like Lewsen, was an inspiring and dedicated teacher who trained many future academic historians, but Maxwell published very little. Professor Monica Wilson, who did important historical work, was an anthropologist, and Sheila van der Horst, author of a pioneer history of African labour, taught economics. For comparative perspectives, see J.W. Scott, ‘Gender and the Profession of History: American Women Historians, 1884–1984’, Daedalus (Fall, 1987), and J. Goggin, ‘Challenging Sexual Discrimination in the Historical Profession: Women Historians and the American Historical Association, 1890–1940’, American Historical Review, 97, 3 (June 1992)
  • In one of these she wrote very movingly of participating in a women's march of protest against the Senate Bill: ‘The Moral Impulse that Sent Her to Pretoria’, The Star, 6 Jury 1955
  • See Cape Argus, 17 March and 8 April 1976
  • Lewsen , P. ‘Formation and Progress of the Republic’, Rand Daily Mail, 31 May 1966
  • Lewsen , P. ‘Answers to Basic Afrikaner Questions’, Rand Daily Mail, 8 Aug. 1988

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