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Choc and books
Mar. 9th, 2006 09:04 pmWhen my friends all have fits of the screaming meemies, I recommend either chocolate or books. This week is just full of screaming meemies on all sides (how I missed International Women's Day: meemies to the third degree), so I am recommending enormous quantities of chocolate - for me as well as all of you - and a full website of books. Maybe two websites. And they will fit the Women's History Month March theme. They have no choice because I am determined. Chocolate and women's books. Goood books. Cures for many, many woes.
The first site is this: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ It has been a favourite of mine for a long time. You can read everything from feminist tracts to illustrated children's picture books (for anyone worried about the feminist me, check my computer and you will find I downloaded Edith Nesbit and Mary Grant Bruce). Its Australian section ( http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/AUSTRALIA.html )is a bit imbalanced: it has a link for Helen Darville but hardly anything for Eleanor Dark.
It is particularly imbalanced in that it doesn't have much speculative fiction and all my bestest friends are absent, but I just updated the CSFG bibliography, so you can redress that imbalance to a small degree by finding out what Canberra speculative fiction writers are doing (answer: a lot). The CSFG bibliography is - as ever - here: http://www.trivium.net/gillianpolack/csfg.htm
And if you want to know why I am bibliographical mode, it is partly CSFG's fault (I did, after all, do their update) and partly my publisher's. I am exceptionally well informed on recent articles on historical approaches in historical fiction thanks to a question of hers earlier today. Since that is the subject of my current research project, I was actually rather flattered to be asked (she remembered!) and it meant I got to wallow for two hours in the ANU online databases, looking at cute journal articles, including some on Medieval science and magic. No, this latter group had *nothing* to do with with my publisher's query or with modern books by women, but they were terribly cool and I had fun.
In case you, too, want to have a great deal of fun surfing and maybe be terribly cool, try some of the links on this page: http://www.wel.org.au/links/womenin.htm I am happy to send a postcard and sticker and something else (mysterious) to the first person who guesses which organisation I helped name.
And the chocolate? A half hour ago I remembered I had a 2 1/2 kilo block in my cupboard. The question is do I make it into dinosaurs and fairies and give it to deserving (but miserable) friends, or if I eat it all myself.
The first site is this: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ It has been a favourite of mine for a long time. You can read everything from feminist tracts to illustrated children's picture books (for anyone worried about the feminist me, check my computer and you will find I downloaded Edith Nesbit and Mary Grant Bruce). Its Australian section ( http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/AUSTRALIA.html )is a bit imbalanced: it has a link for Helen Darville but hardly anything for Eleanor Dark.
It is particularly imbalanced in that it doesn't have much speculative fiction and all my bestest friends are absent, but I just updated the CSFG bibliography, so you can redress that imbalance to a small degree by finding out what Canberra speculative fiction writers are doing (answer: a lot). The CSFG bibliography is - as ever - here: http://www.trivium.net/gillianpolack/csfg.htm
And if you want to know why I am bibliographical mode, it is partly CSFG's fault (I did, after all, do their update) and partly my publisher's. I am exceptionally well informed on recent articles on historical approaches in historical fiction thanks to a question of hers earlier today. Since that is the subject of my current research project, I was actually rather flattered to be asked (she remembered!) and it meant I got to wallow for two hours in the ANU online databases, looking at cute journal articles, including some on Medieval science and magic. No, this latter group had *nothing* to do with with my publisher's query or with modern books by women, but they were terribly cool and I had fun.
In case you, too, want to have a great deal of fun surfing and maybe be terribly cool, try some of the links on this page: http://www.wel.org.au/links/womenin.htm I am happy to send a postcard and sticker and something else (mysterious) to the first person who guesses which organisation I helped name.
And the chocolate? A half hour ago I remembered I had a 2 1/2 kilo block in my cupboard. The question is do I make it into dinosaurs and fairies and give it to deserving (but miserable) friends, or if I eat it all myself.