An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: A Historical Perspective on Vampires MMLA 2010, An...

Below is a slightly corrected version.  I imagine how Pym felt at being rejected by publishers after presenting successful works for so long.


An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: A Historical Perspective on Vampires MMLA 2010, An...: Dear Gentle Readers, Below is my paper presented on vampire history, with information about Erzebet. I am circulating it for publication, ...

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: A Historical Perspective on Vampires MMLA 2010, An...

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: A Historical Perspective on Vampires MMLA 2010, An...: Dear Gentle Readers, Below is my paper presented on vampire history, with information about Erzebet. It am ciruclating it for publicatoin,...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: We're Back!

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: We're Back!: I hardly know where to begin. I've fallen behind in my posts because I can't add new posts on my main computer. Very strange. I'm not s...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: Metal Head Huret

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: Metal Head Huret: I am looking for photos and information about this doll that belogned to Maureen Popp and Dorothy Dixon at one time. I am also interested i...

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: Someone Splendid This Way Came: Rest in Peace Ray ...

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: Someone Splendid This Way Came: Rest in Peace Ray ...: He died yesterday at 91; his books will live forever. How right he was with, or "write" with Farenheit 451; here we are with blue tooths an...

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: The Secret Life of Objects

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: The Secret Life of Objects: This book by Dawn Raffel reminds me of Anne Rice's Teh Wtiching hour because she talks about how simple objects can invoke feelings, or seem...

Remarkable Creatures; Debt as Necessity

This is a remarkable novel by the author of The Girl with the Pearl Earring. It is about the lives of Mary Anningand Elzabath Philpot, self-educated fossil experts and hunters. Below are some interesting excerpts: On the loss of Mary's father-- "I was sad to lose him, but I had no time to dwell on it, for he left us with such debts and not a shilling in our pockets, mea nd Joe and Mam, and her carrying a baby born a month after we buried Pa." Experiencing grief was a luxury not all working class people had in the circa 1820s. The lullaby Mary sings to her doomed baby brother is "Don't Let me Die an Old Maid." Both women found what Pym would call full lives; their passion for fossils sustained them and gave them a career. Like so many of Austen's characters, Chevalier's Philpot is displaced on the death of her parents; her older brother and his wife inherit the family home and she and her sisters must live in Lyme on their 150 pounds per year. Only Margaret hopes to marry, but her hopes are dashed. A similar novel, a romance, based on a fossil hunter who is a woman and who lives during this time is Ravished, by Amanda Quick. This book captures the spirit and the follies of collectors/hunters/dealers, and touches on the facination of the curio cabinet, which was still thriving during Austen's time, and which was often furnished with fossils and relics from Darwin's exhibitions and other such trips. Single women do indeed take charge of various situations, and it is their knowledge which spurs them on. I found the book fascinating, but I am a collector/hunter-gatherer by nature. Many women in my book group, most retired teachers, found it "plodding."

The International Virginia Woolf Society

The Internatio​nal Virginia Woolf Society Membership Inboxx Hall, Lynn halllj@muohio.edu 4:02 PM (24 minutes ago) to IVWSMEMBERS Dear Woolfians: If you are receiving this email, it is because you are currently subscribed to the "members only" listserv for The International Virginia Woolf Society. Anyone who has paid for a membership from 2008 forward is currently on the list. As membership coordinator, I am working to update our membership records. Shortly, I will be sending out dues notices to those members whose memberships have or will soon expire. When you receive your dues notice, it would be appreciated if you could not only renew your membership, but also take a moment to send me an email with your most current contact information (address, phone numbers, preferred email address, etc.) so that I may verify and/or update your information. If you do not wish to renew your membership and/or do not wish to receive communications from this listserv, please contact me at halllj@muohio.edu and ask to be removed. Similarly, if you receive this email in duplicate, please let me know. Thank you, Lynn Lynn Hall, Membership Coordinator, IVWS Ph.D. Candidate & Teaching Associate Department of English Miami University 356 Bachelor Hall Oxford, Ohio 45056halllj@muohio.edu ************************** "Arrange whatever pieces come your way." ~ Virginia Woolf

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: A Few Excerpts

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: A Few Excerpts: Most are from The Crime Library, but some are also from older histories and documents, translated many times, and none really judged for th...