When worlds collide

[triskellian]

I'm reading a Victorian magazine, The Girl's Own Paper, for an essay on the ideal feminine virtues it espouses. A passing reference in the GOP to a particular object reminds me to spend five minutes on the internet ordering such an object from the other side of the Atlantic. Order submitted (and paid for with my own money, since the Married Women's Property Act 1882 says I'm allowed to own my own possessions), and I'm back to the magazine, and knitting* while I read.

*Knitting the knotwork I was talking about t'other day, actually.

My mental landscape is, at this moment, a seething mass of internet, old-fashioned handicrafts, Victorian womanly virtues, global-village-consumerism, third-wave-feminist-craftiness, first-wave-feminist higher education for women, "being useful", the forerunners to and backlash against manufactured consumerist society, and all kinds of other conflicting ideas overlaid upon each other, and I just wanted to record the overlapping concepts, and my joy in them. Now back to work.

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

*heh* Sounds rather like my life. A colleague expressed surprise the other day about my fondness for baking and tea parties; she said it doesn't go with my hair (which is blue).

[kauket.livejournal.com]

ohhhh go and join turntableturn by the way - next top model for us so that we don't clog up the friends list

[lathany.livejournal.com]

The Girl's Own Paper

How big and how often published?

a seething mass of...

Complicated place. ;-)

[triskellian]

It was weekly. I don't know how big it was at the time, since the issues I'm using are HTML (from Project Gutenberg, which I guess makes another layer in the complicated mass!), but each issue seems to work out at about 40 sides of A4. It's fascinating - I really recommend it!

[hendybear.livejournal.com]

I have the solution to your confusion.

A quick trip to Cranborne would make your mind up…… Not quite sure which way…..

[kauket.livejournal.com]

But not talking to me on ichat...perhaps for the best hey, it would get very confusing
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[undyingking.livejournal.com]

You sound like an early Neal Stephenson novel in the making.

[triskellian]

Heh. So I do. From back when I still liked his books :-)