Introduction

In July 1994, Seddon and Worden were invited to present a joint paper, reflecting on the findings of their research for the exhibition, at the 2nd European Feminist Research Conference, held at Graz University of Technology, Austria, with the theme ‘Feminist Perspectives on Technology, Work and Ecology’. To complement their paper they mounted a small exhibition of image/text panels on the theme of women designers between the wars in the foyer of the conference venue.

Jill Seddon resumed her research on women designers, focusing on the work of architect Sadie Speight, around 2005 as a member of the Gender and Built Space research group at the University of Brighton, contributing a chapter to Women and the Making of Built Space in England 1870-1950 (edited by Elizabeth Darling and Lesley Whitworth) and an article on Speight and Nikolaus Pevsner’s work for The Architectural Review, both published in 2007. In May 2012, she spoke on her experience of researching Women Designing at the ‘Designing Women’ study day organised by the University of Brighton Design Archives at the Fashion and Textiles Museum in London.

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