(Dare one wish Emily A Happy Birthday?)
This piece, about Was Charlotte Right to Burn The (quite possibly chimerical) Manuscript of Emily's Second Novel: Emily Brontë’s Lost Second Novel is based on some pretty 'ahem' readings of Wuthering Heights: Emily, being the homebody she was, was also fascinated by ancestral homes, dwellings where several ( Read more... )

I.e. science wanted religion to be okay with it.

I was given to think today that sometimes these days it seems as though religion wants to claim science.

This was underlined by a huge poster over the escalator to the Underground, which I think must have been referring on to this website - and while I know that there was a point when Islamic science ( Read more... )

In a listserv discussion of the trope of spinster as crazy cat lady:

Someone cites Kipling's 'The Cat Who Walked By Himself' from The Just-So Stories as an exemplar.

(They also consider this carefully crafted piece of narration 'accidentally hilarious'.)

Characterising the Woman as a spinster.

Er: did they not notice that one of the ways Cat ( Read more... )

O hai, Michael Billington, meet the nitcomb of pedantry:

Or was the ice pick that Graham Greene once said lurks in every writer's heart simply a weapon that Dahl delighted in wielding?

Dear Michael, if I may be familiar, there is rather a significant difference between 'a splinter of ice* in the heart of a writer' and an ice-pick** therein, no?

We ( Read more... )

I posted (at the contact person's request) notice of a forthcoming event with which I am associated to a listserv to which I am subscribed.

With a line at the top saying, among other things, 'I am not the contact person'.

So they have actually changed that part of the text which says 'If you would like to attend please contact [contact person's ( Read more... )

Yes, it's the detailed deconstruction of the Freeman-Mead controversy, which I always feel Freeman basically cheated on in the first place by only starting it once Margaret Mead was safely dead. This book does nothing to change my feelings that Freeman's case was always a bit dodgy (different informants, different periods, different genders, and ( Read more... )

#1 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > History > Lesbian

AND (other edition, same book)
#2 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > History > Lesbian
on Amazon UK!

I'm my own runner-up...

I reslly think this must represent a certain paucity within the category? because I've just clicked on it and it includes a number of works which I'm not sure I would immediately ( Read more... )

Message from owner of scholarly list I subscribe to, forwarding a message from another list-member, asking can I 'look into this'.

'This' being a duff link to a paper posted on the list last week, for which ( Read more... )

Seen in various places, links to this article on Ursula Le Guin.

And is it just me, or does anyone else think that this is someone who has not actually been following Le Guin's work? Le Guin's later-life renaissance has really been going for some time, but you would not get that from this article. I am a bit beswozzled when Always Coming Home (1985 ( Read more... )

Interesting piece (yes, very occasionally she does do interesting, is the moon blue tonight or something?) by Michele Hanson, on the Alternative Miss World party, the first of which she participated in in 1972: ' the jolliest, most imaginative, ridiculous, daring and non-competitive competition ever'. And the 12th is happening next month.
The ( Read more... )