Breaking out the nitcomb
This is the result of reading through various periodicals which came into the house during my extended absence and going WHUT:
'I like, too, the fact that she wrote from a domestic perspective with small children about. Very few women writers before 1960 were acquainted with day-to-day family life'. No, not referring to either (to take two obvious examples) 'Elizabeth' (Beauchamp/von Arnim/Russell) or EM Delafield, who were contemporaries of the writer in question. And most women writers were not V Woolf or K Mansfield.
This was from the latest Slightly Foxed, in which there is also a piece that erases Dorothy Richardson in favour of declaring one J Joyce as (at least we do get 'probably') 'the first novelist to use in any sustained fashion the stream of consciousness'.
Sigh.
Also - this one is more perhaps Point Thar, U Hav Misst It: in a review column in Locus re a short story about a Fury, 'seems only to avenge misdeeds against women by men', + allusion to Anya in Buffy, prompting the reviewer to ask 'are there no great misdeeds against men that need to be avenged?': which made me say, yes, but the vast majority on men were perpetrated by men, and let me point you at the entire Tudorbethan genre of Revenge Tragedy, The Count of Monte Cristo, and all those other narratives of male vengeance.
Plus, post-Independence Indian history, not my Mastermind special subject, but I really wouldn't characterise this as a period during which significant progressive social change was taking place 'with minimum violence', even if you ignore actual Partition. Other views expressed don't actually seem to me to chime entirely happily with the current rise of Hindu fundamentalism. But what do I know.
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