Browsing the blog archives for June, 2009

The Woman Who Did – Grant Allen (1895)

It’s easy to forget just how far we’ve come. We have an awful long way to go in terms of equality, but we have at least got to the point where I can live with my boyfriend and no one except the staidest of elderly relatives will think anything of it. It wasn’t so in [...]

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June 18, 2009 by Kirsty in feminism, fiction, review, victorian literature
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The Heavenly Twins – Sarah Grand (1893)

“They call us the Heavenly Twins.”
“What, signs of the Zodiac?” said the Tenor.
“No; signs of the times,” said the Boy.
The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand is a hell of a book. Nigh on 700 pages long, it follows the stories of Evadne Frayling, Edith Beale, and Angelica Hamilton-Wells (Angelica is one of the Heavenly Twins [...]

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June 15, 2009 by Kirsty in cats, feminism, fiction, news & media, review, victorian literature
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Playing catch-up

A lovely mention by the always-wonderful Reader Online reminds me that I haven’t posted for a week. If I may whinge for a moment, I have a full time job and a part time Masters degree on the go. And I had to hand in the first chapter of my dissertation on Monday. My beloved [...]

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June 10, 2009 by Kirsty in feminism, fiction, literature, victorian history, victorian literature
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Survive-al

I return from brief technological obscurity (something to do with servers changing host names or something, I don’t know, I just turn up and type stuff) to bring you a message on behalf of a fellow Palimpsester.
From 22-28 June, Al Kitching will be taking part in a survival course in Devon to raise money for [...]

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June 3, 2009 by Kirsty in randomness
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