I feel they should know
This may not have crossed all my dr rdrz' radar: Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection: planned building closure. And, as my dr rdrz may or may not know, the Trust is one of the world's major medical research NGOs, and the Collection is one of the world's major centres for the history of medicine. We feel that they know whereof they are dealing when it comes to pandemics.
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And on the topic of comforting occupation and diversion while distancing or isolating, I have tended to suppose that all dr rdrz are already acquainted with Madame Clorinda Cathcart, The Comfortable Courtesan, the memoirs of a Lady of the Town flourishing (on the whole) during the Regency/late Georgian era, featuring a diverse cast, romances, contrivances, &C.
If there are any who are not, and who might be diverted by the narrative, and the later accounts concerning her circle, the narrative in the original blog posts commences here: I shall not say how, and why, at the age of 15 I became the mistress of the Earl of Craven, because I never had the kind of opportunities that Harriet Wilson wasted.
However, if any would prefer the tidied up versions (correcting certain errours and inconsistencies) subsequently published as ebooks (and also available as prettyly bound volumes), I would be entirely happy to supply taster copies for free (epub or Kindle).
If there are existing fans who are not already Twitter followers of MadameClorinda or subscribers to the newsletter Clorinda's Salon, and thus have not acquired the giveaway treats that go with those, please do make yourself known and I will send you epubs of the treats in question.
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