It's that time of year again...novel-writing time! This year's novel -- presently titled Chasing Ghosts, though we all know these things are subject to change -- is managing to combine lots of things I find totally fascinating (18th century London, woman writers, the French Revolution, cross-dressing, modern academia, etc.) and I am actually very
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I guess also part of my problem is that the intellectual circle I want Dorothea to end up in was fairly radical for its time. They would have been perfectly fine with Dorothea being a woman and doing all the things she wanted to do. But something big has to happen before she ends up belonging to this circle, that makes her feel like "coming clean" about her real gender identity is just not possible, even within this small group of people who probably wouldn't care ( ... )
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