It's everywhere
The entire city is coated in ice. I just tried to take the dogs for a walk and didn't get past my own sidewalk. Everything, everything is coated in ice. Hopefully when the sun comes up in an hour or so, this will melt; but until then there's no going anywhere. I have a couple of very disappointed dogs, but even they were losing their footing.
I've always been fascinated by the early women explorers and was very happy to stumble across a copy of HVF Winstone's biogray of
Gertrude Bell. Well-written, and I have a much better idea of Middle Eastern politics during WW I having read it. But for a book written originally in the 1960s and updated in the 1970s, the casual and just generally assumed sexist attitudes are quite amazing. I don't mean the sexism of the men of Gertrude Bell, but rather the sexism of the author. Who is just sure, Bell's life was ultimately sad because no husband and children.
It was interesting to realize that Bell was only political important for a very short time during the WW I. She had some fame as an author before, and she did important work before and after the work in preserving historical sites. But for all her insight, Bell was one of those people much too sure of her own rightness which led her to disaster all too soon.
It does make me interested in reading some of her own books, some of which are still in print.
I've always been fascinated by the early women explorers and was very happy to stumble across a copy of HVF Winstone's biogray of
Gertrude Bell. Well-written, and I have a much better idea of Middle Eastern politics during WW I having read it. But for a book written originally in the 1960s and updated in the 1970s, the casual and just generally assumed sexist attitudes are quite amazing. I don't mean the sexism of the men of Gertrude Bell, but rather the sexism of the author. Who is just sure, Bell's life was ultimately sad because no husband and children.
It was interesting to realize that Bell was only political important for a very short time during the WW I. She had some fame as an author before, and she did important work before and after the work in preserving historical sites. But for all her insight, Bell was one of those people much too sure of her own rightness which led her to disaster all too soon.
It does make me interested in reading some of her own books, some of which are still in print.