Sheep by threes
From thewriteratwork, 3 interests, 3 icons:
Interests:
Alison Lurie
A novelist I have been reading for rather a long time now, and continue to enjoy. Her oeuvre is relatively sparse for how long she's been at it. Also writes on children's literature (her academic field), and there's a book by her on the language of clothes.
History of medicine
This is endlessly fascinating, unless it is taken to be the ever-tedious subject of what disease in current diagnostic thinking some historical figure 'really' had. Or that also ever-tedious narrative of Great Men of Science who caused WOMOMP: The Wonderful Onward March Of Medical Progress. I suppose I got into the subject largely because it came with the job territory, but ended up doing stuff as a historian that at least sometimes is definitely within the territory.
Modernist women
I'm loving the new scholarship on women and modernism that is asking questions about what modernism is and how modernity gets expressed and gets away from canonical formalism definitions that don't let soppy gurlz into the clubhouse ('but we don't mean you, Virginia, and I just happen to have this ms that I think is just right for Hogarth Press'). They were such interesting women doing such interesting things.
Icons:
An archetypal modernist woman. I have adored West for decades. I think this is probably another G C Beresford photograph (he did several of her), but the text is all my own.
curtana made this one for me after I'd commented that I really needed an 'o tempora o mores' icon after a flurry of otom posts.
Codfish, for codslapping with. The image comes from an early C20th advertisement for codliver oil. It has an appropriate dynamism, not to mention the aghast expression.