But can't we stay here? You said you were keeping the site up...
Cavendish was also the first woman to formally visit the Royal Society--by about two centuries. There's been a real boom in Cavendish studies in the overlap between literature and history of science, frequently focused on The Blazing World. She's such a fascinating figure.
Who knows? But there sure are a lot of them. It's a real problem.
Excellent post. Emilia is awesome. I think if anything you're actually giving Coleridge's reading of the play too much credit; Desdemona is hardly characterless. In 1.3 her father describes her as "A maiden never bold;/Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion/Blush'd at herself" and that might be a fair description of the dead Desdemona but it certainly isn't of the live one, who stands up to her father and is pretty clear what she wants out of her marriage: "if I be left behind,/A moth of peace, and he go to the war,/The rites for which I love him are bereft me." Then when we see her next in 2.1 she's bantering with Iago. Unfortunately, her arc is basically the opposite of Emilia's; Emilia ends strongly, and Desdemona ends weakly ("Nobody; I myself. Farewell/Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!") but don't let some 18th-century know-it-all tell you either of them is characterless.
So obviously this also goes for historical drama as a subcategory of historical fiction (see: Hamilton). I wonder if (performed) drama has a distinct relationship to this kind of historical empathy because it's literally acted out and embodied anew each time, whereas a purely printed kind of historical fiction is fixed in its own historical moment.
Catherine Parr was apparently also a very loving stepmother to Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth (in royalty order, not birth order), or at least cultivated the appearance of being so. This was also a good survival technique, because if you're planning to outlive Henry, there'd be nothing more ironic than letting one of his children off you (see: Cleves, Anne of, for similar strategy).
Arise, sir, from this semi-recumbent position!
Only women may occupy that position. Do not usurp it.
Isn't a large part of the problem here the "diminishing budgets for reliable and safe mass transit"? It's all well and good to try to make the city "walkable" and reduce car usage, but if you don't give options to those who can't walk the additional distances that such policies produce then you're not actually making anything better. That's been one of my major frustrations with Seattle in particular: how do you expect people to get around the city (a city that's very long and narrow, so there are often long distances involved) without either a car or reliable, safe, extensive mass transit?
That death was really martyr-DUMB.
More like you converted on the road to Dumb-ass-kiss.
After I got that letter from Paul, I was really epistled off.
I just wanted to say--thank you for using thee, thou, and the second person informal correctly.
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