As I’ve been effectively snowed-in for 5 days, it has given me some unexpected leisure time to rummage on blogs and share with you the fruits of my labour:
- Kirsty reviews Bluestockings, an insightful account of women’s struggle for education, as part of the Women Unbound reading challenge. I’d love to participate, but the Pee Haitch Dee is rather dictating my reader material at the moment. I shall instead wave my virtual pom-poms from the sidelines.
- The Quack Doctor is now all grown-up with its own domain name and shiny new site. The entry that particularly caught my eye was the Nose Machine, a “simple successful contrivance which, applied to the nose for an hour daily, so directs the soft cartilage of which the member consists, that an ill-formed nose is quickly shaped to perfection.”
- The Little Professor ponders the merits of the film The Young Victoria.
- The Long Nineteenth Century looks at Aurora Floyd and temporality.
- The Victorian Peep Show offers us a slightly uncomfortable read in its post on the Victorian freak show. Not a world away from “reality” television, I suppose.
- I definitely want to read Andrew Martin’s The Necropolis Railway after reading Juxtabook’s review.
That’s all for now; I’m off to brave the elements…
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