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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
I just started Rebecca Mead on Pompeii. I was gratified to see her still refer to that incredibly venerable British institution of higher learning as Cambridge University and not, as I've seen recently, the University of Cambridge.
(I've also seen the University of Oxford. No.)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 14, 2021, 02:43:18 pm ---I just started Rebecca Mead on Pompeii. I was gratified to see her still refer to that incredibly venerable British institution of higher learning as Cambridge University and not, as I've seen recently, the University of Cambridge.
(I've also seen the University of Oxford. No.)
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Well, she's British, so.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 13, 2021, 11:34:32 am ---Did I say it was scandalous? I don't remember saying that. I know Jo March was thought to stand in for the author, Louisa May Alcott, and there were several things about Alcott that were scandalous at the time, according to this article.
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I haven't read the article yet but I've long assumed LMA was a lesbian. Jo March is very much based on her (as the sisters and parents are based on her own sisters and parents). So that's why Jo March doesn't marry Christian Bale Laurie, her neighbor close friend and presumed love interest. And apparently her publishers made LMA have Jo marry someone, so she picked a not very sexy professor. (Although in the Greta Gerwig version, the guy Jo marries is actually attractive.)
I visited LMA's childhood home some years ago. Very interesting. Among other things, she pounded out Little Women in about a month, at the request of an editor who thought she should write a book for women. Then she wrote a sequel.
Her desk was a fold-out desktop about the size of a desktop in grade school. In LW, the character of her sister Amy is artistic. In their house, "Amy's" drawings are all over some of the walls.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 14, 2021, 10:09:16 pm ---Jo March is very much based on her (as the sisters and parents are based on her own sisters and parents).
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That was just a question/answer on Jeopardy!
Maybe the scandal was that EStVM was apparently bisexual, even though she eventually married (as Jo eventually married). Also, when she was growing up, her father was not part of her family--much like Mr. March isn't much in LW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay
serious crayons:
Remember when somebody wrote a book about Abraham Lincoln suggesting he had a love affair with his (male) friend, but others objected saying that homosexuality wasn't even recognized as a thing back then? That can't be possible, can it?
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