A few years ago I went to visit my best friend, and as we trawled through Netflix to try and find a show to watch she said 'How about the BBC series North and South?' Based on the novel of the same name by the writer Elizabeth Gaskell (originally published in 1855) it follows the … Continue reading Gaskell & Brontë
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“Mad Madge” and the Royal Society
On the 30th May 1667 the first woman attended a meeting of the Royal Society, a significant achievement, as women had been barred from the society since it's creation in 1660. The woman in questions was Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. No woman could have divided opinion more, to the famous essayist Charles Lamb she was … Continue reading “Mad Madge” and the Royal Society
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