Back in the salt-mines/on the chain-gang/whatever

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Dee Crystal update: this has been recovered, an arrest made, and a man charged, just before Christmas. This has not been extensively reported - two sentences in an article in the Independent about the recent thefts from the V&A. Presumably because the crystal and documentation are now evidence, they are not yet back on display. The thief is said to

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Sorely tempted but simply wrote back saying Bad Idea, and after a paragraph about where one might find 'dynamic' (ugh ugh ugh) images of some of the women included, added, did I say what a Really Bad Idea this is? (We could at least have had the right Pankhurst, surely? - this is just the sort of thing that informed reviewers are likely to pick up on.)

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Christabel is in the book (Votes for Women! Chastity for Men!): so clearly we should have her mum on the cover...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: one early women doc who does not feature, though several others do. Deep sigh.