{"id":453,"date":"2020-03-09T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T09:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/?p=453"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:19:39","slug":"julia-katharine-wickes-steele-1871-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/julia-katharine-wickes-steele-1871-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Women Digital: 7. Julia Katharine (Wickes) Steele (1871 &#8211; 1942)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Julia Katharine (Wickes) Steele was born in Bengal, India, where her father, Thomas Wickes, was a railway engineer for the Bengal Public Works Department.\u00a0 After he retired in 1895, the family relocated to Greece, where he gathered information for a report on the progress of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Copais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drainage works at Lake Copais<\/a>. Julia continued to live in Greece for a time with her husband, Daniel Steele, after their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the artefacts that Julia Katharine Steele eventually sold to Percy Ure came from the Lake Copais region. In a 1926 letter to Percy Ure, she recalled that &#8220;We lived in Greece at a time when people dug before Xmas + Easter + came round with their finds to get something to spend for their feasts + at a restaurant in Thebes, antiquities were sold practically by the oke [a unit of measurement used in early 20<sup>th<\/sup>century Greece, equivalent to 1.2 kilograms]&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julia Steele - Hidden Women in the Archives\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jLPeJ08Xg9o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>OBJECT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Attic black-figure skyphos depicting a wedding ceremony; the bride and groom are shown aboard a horse-drawn chariot with numerous male and female onlookers; below the handles are birds in flight. Believed to be from Boeotia, Greece. 525 \u2013 500 BC. Purchased from JK Steele, 1926 [26.12.10].<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARCHIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julia Katharine Steele&#8217;s letter to Percy Ure discussing the sale of antiquities in Greece [Ure Museum Archive Drawer E\/4\/52].<\/p>\n<p>Move forward to <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/anne-mary-wickes-1868-1941\/\">Anne Mary Wickes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go back to <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/norah-christina-jolliffe-1900-1951\/\">Norah Christina Jolliffe<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Julia Katharine (Wickes) Steele was born in Bengal, India, where her father, Thomas Wickes, was a railway engineer for the Bengal Public Works Department.\u00a0 After he retired in 1895, the&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#99;&#117;&#114;&#105;&#111;&#115;&#105;&#47;&#106;&#117;&#108;&#105;&#97;&#45;&#107;&#97;&#116;&#104;&#97;&#114;&#105;&#110;&#101;&#45;&#119;&#105;&#99;&#107;&#101;&#115;&#45;&#115;&#116;&#101;&#101;&#108;&#101;&#45;&#49;&#56;&#55;&#49;&#45;&#49;&#57;&#52;&#50;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[111,9,73,108,57,112,6],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collectors-curators-cataloguers","tag-boeotia","tag-classics","tag-collectors-curators-cataloguers","tag-film","tag-greece","tag-lake-copais","tag-women"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hidden Women Digital: 7. 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