The benefits of a feminist in the family
You can find books by and about Harriet Martineau at Amazon.
All the King’s Fools: ‘Disability is deep in comedy’s DNA’
The book Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World by Beatrice K. Otto is available from Amazon.
Fools and Jesters at the English Court by John Southworth is a reign-by reign account of court fools from their origins in Carolingian Europe and Celtic Ireland to the time of James I. This book is out of print, but available from Alibris.
Dec 262010
Sep 282010
From the interesting blog The Fashion Historian:
“Did some Victorian women really have their lower ribs removed in order to have a smaller waist?”
Sep 122010
Think billion-dollar-earning golfer Tiger Woods is well-paid? Not “when compared with the charioteers of ancient Rome.”
Jun 082010
Catherine Delors blogs about artist Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Regency England and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
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