Lilian Staple Mead

Lilian Staple Mead (30 Yuni 1865 - 27 Nuwamba 1936) ta kasance 'yar Australiya ce kuma marubuciyar littafin yara. Ita ce kawai daliba mace da ta taba karatu a Kwalejin Prince Alfred ta Adelaide.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Lilian Staple Mead a ranar 30 ga Yuni 1865, ɗan fari na ministan Baptist Silas Mead da Ann (née Staple).  Mahaifiyarta ta mutu lokacin da take da shekaru tara. Tun tana 'yar shekara 13, ta halarci Makarantar Ci gaba ta Mata tare da 'yar'uwarta Gertrude, ta kammala karatun a cikin wallafe-wallafen Ingilishi a Jami'ar Adelaide a 1882,  kafin ta koma Kwalejin Prince Alfred a 1883-1884 don kammala karatunta, inda ita ce kawai dalibar mace a lokacin da kuma tun daga lokacin.  Ta fara karatun digiri na farko a Jami'ar Adelaide,  amma ta janye bayan mutuwar mahaifiyarta a 1886 don kula da mahaifinta.

 Ayyuka 
Mead ta kasance mai sanya hannu a kan takardar neman izinin mata a cikin 1894, wanda UNESCO Memory of the World Programme ta amince da shi a matsayin dukiyar ajiya.[1] A shekara ta 1895, Mead ya ba da adireshin taken "The Awakened Woman" a taron Kudancin Australia na Kudancin Kudancin Turai na Kudanci wanda ke kira ga daidaitattun damar ilimi. Ta ce,'Me ya sa', mace da ta farka ta ce, 'idan mutumin da ya cika da hankali ba namiji ba ne, mace ce mai ƙwarewa ba mace ba? Elizabeth Barrett Browning da Mary Somerville sun amsa tambayar. Dukansu mata masu ilimi, duka mata masu kyau da uwaye, dukansu suna da matsayi na musamman da na jama'a, sun kasance da karfi da kuma ba za a iya musanta mata ba. Matar da ta farke ... da kyau ta yi tunanin cewa idan ma mahaifiyar ba kawai don ba ta wanzu ba don ba kawai don cin gajiyar wani riba ba, mace ba, ba, ba ce.Walker, John (October 2009). "'A Holy Liberty in the Lord'? South Australian Baptists and Female Gender Roles, circa 1870 to 1940" (PDF). Pacific Journal of Baptist Research. 5 (2): 3962. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.Mead ta kasance jagora tare da mahaifinta a cikin Christian Endeavour kuma a cikin 1897 ta ba da jawabi a taron kasa da kasa na al'umma a California  da ake kira "The World's Prayer Chain" inda ta yi kira ga addu'o'i don, a tsakanin sauran abubuwa, faduwar kabilanci a Indiya da kuma kawar da ɗaure ƙafa a China.

Mead ta rubuta littattafan almara na yara guda biyu, A Brother's Need  da Patsie's Bricks, wanda wani mai bita ya kira shi "mafi girma ga littattafan yara gaba ɗaya". Littafinta na uku, Daring and Doing, tarin gajerun labaru ne na jaruntaka, wanda ya dogara da labarun gaskiya kuma "an yi niyyar karfafa matasa masu karatu ga irin waɗannan ayyukan sadaukarwar kai".  Har ila yau, tana da gajerun labarai da aka buga a cikin The Quiver, mujallar Kirista.

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