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sebastienneSuper-happy-making Sarah Jane Adventures spoiler: here! (OK, possibly not that super-happy-making to anyone but me.)
Borderville at the Bullingdon Arms tonight! Ohgoonyouknowyouwantto.
Oh, Oxford! I have just received a delivery from the Bodleian bookstacks which will, I think, keep me happy and engaged for the rest of my time here.
Between 1887 and 1890, Oscar Wilde was the editor of a magazine called "The Woman's World" (before he took over, it was "The Lady's World". Oh Wilde. I love you.)
And it is all here, in front of me, right now. I cannot quite explain how impossibly wonderful this is. These actual 120-year-old pages, right here, in my hands.
Here's something I found very interesting, both with relation to 21st century feminism and to my experience of people who have debate training in the "Oxford Union" style...
From the November 1887 edition, page 35, "THE OXFORD LADIES' COLLEGES. BY A MEMBER OF ONE OF THEM"
"In passing, I should like to inquire why it is that every one when speaking in public thinks it necessary to assume an appearance of such excessive modesty and self-deprecation. Certainly any chance auditor of the Somerville and Lady Margaret Hall Debating Society might reasonably wonder why the majority of speakers should ever open their lips at all, since two out of every three seem invariably to preface their remarks with the sometime wholly unnecessary assurance that they have really nothing to say worth hearing, and do not in the least understand the motion before the house.
Borderville at the Bullingdon Arms tonight! Ohgoonyouknowyouwantto.
Oh, Oxford! I have just received a delivery from the Bodleian bookstacks which will, I think, keep me happy and engaged for the rest of my time here.
Between 1887 and 1890, Oscar Wilde was the editor of a magazine called "The Woman's World" (before he took over, it was "The Lady's World". Oh Wilde. I love you.)
And it is all here, in front of me, right now. I cannot quite explain how impossibly wonderful this is. These actual 120-year-old pages, right here, in my hands.
Here's something I found very interesting, both with relation to 21st century feminism and to my experience of people who have debate training in the "Oxford Union" style...
From the November 1887 edition, page 35, "THE OXFORD LADIES' COLLEGES. BY A MEMBER OF ONE OF THEM"
"In passing, I should like to inquire why it is that every one when speaking in public thinks it necessary to assume an appearance of such excessive modesty and self-deprecation. Certainly any chance auditor of the Somerville and Lady Margaret Hall Debating Society might reasonably wonder why the majority of speakers should ever open their lips at all, since two out of every three seem invariably to preface their remarks with the sometime wholly unnecessary assurance that they have really nothing to say worth hearing, and do not in the least understand the motion before the house.
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