Am enjoying myself looking for women to add to the Birthdays section of the blog.
You know, I thought I knew a fair number of "notable" women (including some less than well known ones) but this is fascinating work because there's just so much.
I kind of saw World War One as the major turning point for women but it's clear we were active in all sorts of areas long before then. Why would I ever have thought otherwise?
While I've been trawling the internet looking for birthdays, I've ended up on my favourite internet bookshop and have a few new autobiographies coming. Shouldn't have spent the money but .... (see "Other Sites" for a link)
Next day of Eleanor's Travel Journal is going on tomorrow, and I've spent an hour this morning typing more in.
You know, I thought I knew a fair number of "notable" women (including some less than well known ones) but this is fascinating work because there's just so much.
I kind of saw World War One as the major turning point for women but it's clear we were active in all sorts of areas long before then. Why would I ever have thought otherwise?
While I've been trawling the internet looking for birthdays, I've ended up on my favourite internet bookshop and have a few new autobiographies coming. Shouldn't have spent the money but .... (see "Other Sites" for a link)
Next day of Eleanor's Travel Journal is going on tomorrow, and I've spent an hour this morning typing more in.