thevillagecharlatan

I came across one of Carolyn Steedman’s online sylabi for University of Warwick undergrads today, and it looks terrific. Steedman is a historian of mixed feminist stripe, specializing in domestic relationships; children; the development of the novel since 1700; motherhood; autobiography, and other good things. She instructs her students to start a reading diary here (what’s up with no html abilities?): http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/novel/diary , and I may add this to end-of-semester tasks, possibly to add to the website. I’ve already meditated on (and tried, briefly) the idea of the looking-diary in my old Livejournal, but I was really only concentrating on it while trying to find a Master’s thesis topic. Is there a Wordpress feature that allows for steno-notebook style lists, one of words and one of images? Here are some things I have read: Landscape for a Good Woman (40 pages); a review called “Women of the Weimar Era, in a Social Context” by Charles Hagen in the NYT (April 1995); some descriptions of the Estorick collection of Modern Italian Art; some Pro-Quest dissertation abstrcts; and various boring and short emails. I wonder what all this means.