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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. Cornish Pasties – a family tradition. The London Journal of Flora Tristan. March 10, 2014. The House of Commons. 1831. Flora wrote a merged account of her four London visits which. Was published in France in 1842 under the title ‘ Promenades dans Londres. House of Commons George Hayter, showing a more ordered version than Flora’s description. Allowance has to be made for Flora’s tendency to exaggerate and to paint a colourful, but not always accurate, pict...
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. Newer posts →. Religion and debauchery in Tunbridge Wells. October 27, 2011. Celebrated for its waters Tunbridge Wells was remarkable for little else than the ignorance and profaneness of its inhabitants’. (The life and Times of Selina Countess of Huntingdon, 1839). Early on an autumn evening in 1768 a crowd gathered outside a large house on Mount Ephrai. The Pantiles in 1748. Memorial commemorating the chapel's foundation. The site of Countess Selina̵...
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The Bluestocking: March 2013
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The third wave of feminism salutes the first and second waves. Thursday, 28 March 2013. Her name was Reeva Steenkamp. The other day, I attended a talk on feminism, and one of the women on the panel described how South Africa was gearing up for a major campaign on rape and violence against women, when (and I quote) "a fluffy two-dimensional model got murdered and it was all over the news" (thus knocking the campaign out of the headlines). Her name was Reeva Steenkamp. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Painting ...
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The Bluestocking: Happy Ada Day
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The third wave of feminism salutes the first and second waves. Tuesday, 24 March 2009. In celebration of Ada Lovelace. Nearly two thousand bloggers have signed up to a pledge to blog about women in technology. She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage. S early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs. There is a big list of women computer scientists on Wikipedia. 160;now i...
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The Bluestocking: March 2014
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The third wave of feminism salutes the first and second waves. Monday, 10 March 2014. Why International Women's Day? I saw a couple of posts on my Facebook timeline asking why there is International Women's Day, and not "international equality day". Firstly, there is the specific history of International Women's Day. Which is about upholding women's rights. Thirdly, you can't lump all equalities issues into one mega-issue, because the origins and history and conditions of oppression are different. Ob...
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The Bluestocking: October 2013
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The third wave of feminism salutes the first and second waves. Thursday, 17 October 2013. People often ask, why are there so few famous women writers, artists, scientists, and intellectuals? They seem to be forgetting that, in previous centuries, it was rare for women to be educated. Women also often died younger due to infections contracted in childbirth. Women were not allowed to attend university until the 1870s, and even then they were not allowed to graduate. The first social groups to routinely edu...
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The Bluestocking: Great fictional tomboys
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The third wave of feminism salutes the first and second waves. Friday, 8 June 2012. Following the excellent article by Dawn H Foster in The Guardian. About why being a tomboy is completely marvellous. And praising some fictional tomboys, I thought it would be fun to make a list of great fictional tomboys. Here are my favourites:. Blackett in Swallows and Amazons. Jo March in Little Women. In Fried Green Tomatoes. Can't get enough tomboys? Here are some other people's lists:. Save philosophy at Middlesex.
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The Bluestocking: Inspirational women
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The third wave of feminism salutes the first and second waves. Thursday, 17 October 2013. All my Finding Ada. Blogposts in one place:. Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh. Sister of Robert Boyle. She conducted chemistry experiments. Wendy Hall, computer scientist. Anita Borg, computer scientist. Caroline Arms, metadata pioneer. Hedy Lamarr, inventor. Lisa Barone, SEO expert. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979) was an English-American astronomer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: May 2015
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Off the beaten page: lesser-known British women writers 1910-1960. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. WORLD WAR II BOOK LIST (5 of 6) (updated 5/15/2016). 2) Fiction: The Approach of War and Early Days. 3) Fiction: The Thick of It. 4) Fiction: The Immediate Postwar. 5) Fiction: Retrospective (post-1950). VIEW/DOWNLOAD ENTIRE LIST IN PDF. Fiction: Retrospective (published after 1950). The Heat of the Day. Trilogies starting in 1960. And there are several important novels written during the war that were only pu...