Mrs lintott biography sample

“Mrs Lintott: What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”

She teaches boys, and is surrounded by male figures, so cannot express herself or make the students or teachers identify with these views.

In this line Mrs Lintott is displaying how she believes that women’s history is worth studying and that as a historian herself, gender should be a highlighted issue in all syllabuses. Bennett displays this character, as a teacher, as quite bland, drumming out the factual basis for learning, or as Hector refers to it - ‘You give them an education.

Mrs lintott biography sample pdf

I give them the wherewithal to resist it’. Mrs Lintott’s conversation with Hector shows how restricted and tied down she feels with education. Although she is expressing the view that History should not be gender bias, evidence is other parts of the play suggests she does not express this opinion when she is teacher, rather than when conversing