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Rosemary Seymour (16 June 1919 - DATE)

Early life
Rosemary Yolande Levinge Seymour was born in Gisborne on 16 June 1919 at Whangara, north of Gisborne, New Zealand. She was the youngest child of Mabel and Walter Seymour of ‘Kohata’ station Rosemary’s mother, Mabel Mardan, was from Matamata and she had married Walter in 1910. Walter was the second son of Charles Seymour and Caroline Levinge Seymour. CITATION NEEDED

Seymour attended Woodford House School from DATE to DATE

Later life

She studied MORE HERE English?? literature at the University of Auckland in 1938, Assume she graduated completed an MA of English in 1943 (EMAIL sent to alumni AUCKLAND UNI 27/3/2022

Affair details

https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4s20/sewell-william-arthur

She took up a teaching post as a Woodford House, Rosemary enrolled at Queen Mary College, University of London, for a post-graduate degree in English Literature. DID SHE GRADUATE?

She then joined Arthur in Athens in 1947.

The couple married in London in 1951, their only son William Seymour (Bill) Sewell, later describing an unconventional ceremony after which ‘bride and groom went their separate ways, both with business to attend to’.

. 'Sewell, William Arthur', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4s20/sewell-william-arthur (accessed 27 March 2022)

Meantime,. Instead, she accompanied Arthur Sewell to Athens. Here, Rosemary taught courses for the British Council, including Cambridge Diploma Courses (1946 –1951) and headed Diploma Studies in 1950 and 1951. In Ankara, she taught part-time in 1953 and 1954 and presented occasional lectures within the English Department.

Women's Studies
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Marriage and children[edit source]
Seymour married Arthur Sewell in London in 1951. They had one child, a


 * William Sewell (birthdate – death) If notable, provide a brief single-line description. their only son William Seymour (Bill) Sewell, later describing an unconventional ceremony after which ‘bride and groom went their separate ways, both with business to attend to’

Death and afterward
A former student, Professor Kay Morris Matthews, dedicated her doctoral thesis For and about women – Women’s Studies in New Zealand to Rosemary Seymour, describing her as a ‘pioneer and visionary’. Rosemary’s vast collection of articles, monographs, and papers and about 3,000 books, forms the Rosemary Seymour Archives at the University of Waikato Library. The Rosemary Seymour Research and Archives Award is made annually to two young women, one specifically Mãori.

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From Rosanne Robertson:

Rosemary Seymour (1919-1984) (D.Phil. Sociology, University of Waikato, 1981)

Rosemary Yolande Levinge Seymour was a New Zealand feminist, academic and prolific writer of plays and poetry who helped establish New Zealand’s first women’s studies course (the Sociology of Women) at the University of Waikato in 1974.

She founded the New Zealand Women’s Studies Journal, initiated a newsletter and formed a network of women that became the Women's Studies Association (NZ) WSANZ, and helped develop a Women’s Studies course promoting feminist scholarship and activism. She applied for a Fulbright Fellow in 1982, stating that her aim was “to create structures for promoting and disseminating soundly based knowledge of women’s thoughts, feelings and activities”.

Early life Rosemary Seymour was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, the youngest of four children. Her father, Walter Seymour, farmed up the east coast.

She studied literature at the University of Auckland in 1938, completed an MA of English in 1943 and scandalized the Auckland academic community by an affair with her English Professor, Arthur Sewell, married and 16 years her senior. He resigned in 1945.

After teaching at her old school Woodford House, Rosemary enrolled at Queen Mary College, University of London, for a post-graduate degree in English Literature. She then joined Arthur in Athens in 1947.

The couple married in London in 1951, their only son William Seymour (Bill) Sewell, later describing an unconventional ceremony after which ‘bride and groom went their separate ways, both with business to attend to’.

Academic life

The Sewells lived and worked in Greece and the Middle East for 18 years, where Arthur had a number of academic posts and Rosemary taught and presented occasional lectures for the British Council. Arthur was Byron Professor of English at the University of Athens (1946-1951), Director of the British Institute, Barcelona (1952-53) and Chair in English, University of Ankara (1954-56), then the American University of Beirut (1956-65) (see Wikipedia) and Rosemary studied philosophy. They were part of Beirut’s expatriate community at the same time as the British spy Kim Philby, who, exonerated in 1955, resumed his career there as a journalist and spy for the Special Intelligence Service.

The Sewells returned to New Zealand in 1965 where Arthur was appointed Visiting Professor of English, then foundation Professor of English at the University of Waikato (UoW). He retired in 1969 and died in 1972.

Rosemary then undertook a Masters of Social Sciences at UoW, awarded First Class Honours in 1973. She explored women’s roles in a variety of world religions, for a PhD, graduating in 1981. She was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology until just before she died.

Bill Sewell (1951-2003) born in Athens, became a noted poet and editor of New Zealand Books. He was also an academic and lawyer, Burns Fellow at Otago University, Dunedin (1981-82), and lecturer in German, researcher for the Law Commission, editor and contributor to Sons of the Fathers: New Zealand men write about their fathers, a collection of memoirs of 13 New Zealand writers and others, himself included.