Yes, my dearios, Clio has taken out her trusty codfish in order to have at the presumption that Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary Wollstonecraft!!!) is somehow a neglected and forgotten figure:
Now it’s our turn to recognise her contribution to women’s rights.
No, just because you've written a book about her (and can I believe that this supersedes Barbara ( Read more... )

This is an interesting article about a neglected woman artist of the early C20th, but:
Y O Y does someone who purports to be a woman and an art historian make this statement:
“Throughout history, paintings of beautiful women were done by men.”
Well, that's you seen off, Angelica Kauffmann, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Mary Cassatt.
Okay, perhaps ( Read more... )

Room quite comfortable, but that thing where breakfast is in some other building, and when generally indicating where it is in relation to accommodation block, no mentions of the whopping building site in the way.
Session I chaired went well though was irritated by speaker who turned up after start time and did not make themself known, so I thought ( Read more... )

Twice in the past week I've traveled on the 390 bus and both times the one I was on had to disembark passengers because of malfunctioning hydraulics. This begins to look like a design fault rather than happenstance. These are those buses that are trying to rock a retro look...
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Phonecalls from London mayoral candidates who are already clogging ( Read more... )

Because I don't feel like pulling together a reading post after a day which started far too early and while it didn't have any major travel disasters had a lot of travel niggles and peeves like the minicab being late, heavy traffic (or a driver who was not very good at planning a route to avoid it), an actual quite long queue to check in/bag drop ( Read more... )

While I had to stretch a bit to be okay with the title The Suffragette Scandal, set some 30 years before 'suffragette' was a thing, I can see why Courtney Milan did it and in fact there is an afterword which explains and more or less excuses the solecism -
I was a bit 'huh' about our heroine, who owns a business and thus has employees dependent ( Read more... )

Because, honestly? with email? you do not have to hand-calligraph a fulsome letter of thanks - you can just bop off an email saying 'thank you so much for your help'. (And this, I consider, pace Mr Jeremiah in that article I linked the other day about woez technology and stress of modern life, a good thing.
Given to think about this by this article ( Read more... )

My dearios will doubtless be aware that I am never not irked when somebody responds to a listserv or whatever request for historiography on some subject with title of some book that a) was published 30 years ago &/or b) sounds from the title that it might be relevant, but actually isn't (good luck with finding out anything on Victorian self-abuse ( Read more... )

Well, introvert's social whirl...
The weather today has been unconducive to sightseeing; it's no longer chucking it down but it remains pretty chilly and unappealing.
However, last night I had dinner with
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Today I wore for the first time a pair of shoes that I bought in a sale some while ago (on account of snapping up Ecco shoes in my size and a style I like should I see them in a sale) and which have been sitting at the back of the wardrobe ever since.
The heels have started disintegrating and leaving a trail of black blobs.
Fortunately this is a ( Read more... )