rhetorician.bsky.social
early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Bread, beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
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Oh that’s a really intriguing and plausible suggestion! Thank you so much
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Thank you!
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Same!
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And the answer is send him to a plantation!! Of course!!
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And the son goes to the bad and ma and pa “were continually casting about what wee might doe to acquit our owne soulls from guilt”
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Yes that floated across my brain too!
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Mind you, better than her nieces and nephews who are “slothful” and “proud” with “a prejudicate opinion & slight esteem of mee my ways & Councells”
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Thank you; she’s a pretty literate women and her writing usually accurate (unlike her sums!)
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Ffs. If they’re all autistic it doesn’t make them any less trans.
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Oh sorry
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Laura Cumming Thunderclap?
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Indeed
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Or maybe he was a terrible correspondent and never answered letters?
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This case is quite typical I think where it is often the woman who embodies the ethical creditworthiness of the family. Why else appeal to her and not him? And this says a great deal about her skills capital and understanding of all kinds of transactions
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I feel George went a bit overboard on reflecting her hair colour
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I hope you are ok - DMs always open.
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I know!!
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Lots of shades!
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And the kinds of work that women do in managing credit and finance in households
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Wonderful; an object lesson in how partial glimmers of evidence esp relating to women are. But chimes with what we know about women’s roles in managing the business of households, including money. Also sonnet 135 “Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will,
And will to boot, and will in overplus.”
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My kids primary school had two toilets in each classroom, anyone could use them. Although the girls were so disgusted by the boys’ terrible hygiene that they were in practice policed. But the girls would happily have allowed a clean boy in however he identified
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😂 I’ve no idea what this might be like
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Great course though! I used to spend a semester doing close reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets, saying merrily as I went, this is not biography! And without fail, half the papers would focus on what the sonnets could teach us about Shakespeare’s inner life 🤷🏻
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She is; she had a minor stroke and can no longer use her right hand but is managing to eat cake using her left (she is right handed!)
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Thank you; all too rarely do British historians reckon with the other history involved!
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He waved at me yesterday (Michael D)
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I hope yours gets fixed too!
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Gorgeous!
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Ah that’s a good tip; thank you
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Oh this is amazing; where’s the bookmark function when you need it @bsky.app?
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I am sorry to hear this; hope she is settled soon
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Brilliant- many thanks
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Thank you!
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Oh god not at all!! I just feel like an idiot and that there “must” be a way I can make it work. But I can’t. And they will know
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Thank you; this was the perfect accompaniment to my Good Friday work
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Yes that’s what I’ve done!
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This sounds amazing! I really hope that the project acronym is FAT!
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Would love to read this Kristina - I have a piece coming out soon(ish) on a 17th c planter woman in Munster and ideas about cultivation