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Jane Routley and her alter ego (Rebecca Locksley) are both guests in the ASiF Forum. Jane needs saving from me, I think. Since most other people are being quiet I am taking advantange of her niceness and asking her imbecilic questions.

What's particularly interesting is she writes the exact sort of work discusssed in sartorias today.

Women's History Month

It's March already. Women's History Month. Someone left me off the mailing list so I have no postcards or stickers to hand out this year. Instead I'll celebrate with posts when I think of them and URLs when I find them.

To start with, this one about Beatrix Potter came wandering over my desktop not three minutes ago, crying "Celebrate Potter and her dog, Spot."

I'm being good and strong today and not supplying rabbit recipes. This is because it's so easy to trivialise women's history. When people list 'great authors' and 'important lives' they all too often assume that the Beatrix Potters of this world are insignificant because they wrote childrens' book and that lives are someone less formidable because the writer doesn't scream from the pulpit. And because they are women.

As posts go this one is lacking in deep reflection, but the illustrations (both text and pictorial) are good and Potter's life is well worth celebrating.