Is this pro or anti? EBD mention in New Statesman 2002
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#1: Is this pro or anti? EBD mention in New Statesman 2002 Author: Maeve, Location: Romania PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:43 am
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I found this in a 2002 article about the opening of the Women's Library in London:
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I ran into Elaine Showalter, professor of English at Princeton. As an energetic, lefty research student in the Seventies, she followed the trail of Virginia Woolf and Vera Brittain to the Fawcett Library, housed by then in a cramped basement in Victoria. She recalls looking in the signing book and seeing there, with great excitement, a list of the most illustrious names in the women's movement; before long she was bunking off with them at lunchtime for chips at the Golden Egg. Thus are revolutions (and careers) made.

I wondered what Showalter made of "celebrating" Esther Rantzen alongside Rosa Luxemburg. She gave me a steady look. "I hope one day researchers here will be able to look at Posh Spice's archive. What's wrong with that?"

Can Prada receipts be said to constitute an archive, I mused. But Showalter insists it's what she wants - Posh is just as notable, if not more notable, than Mary Wollstonecraft.

Is that what it's all about, being notable? Does the women's movement equal the Spice Girls, in the way that the labour movement equals PFI? I was going to put this to Showalter, and ask, perhaps, about the unnoted lives of the Whitechapel washerwomen and the unnoted lives of their successors, the new East Enders, Bangladeshi and Bosnian.

But I found myself asking her if she'd ever read the Chalet School novels of Elinor Brent-Dyer instead.


I can't figure out if this is a dig at the series or not Confused

The entire article is at http://www.newstatesman.com/200202180030
#2:  Author: Karry, Location: Stoke on Trent PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:03 pm
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But what was the answer?????????
#3:  Author: Maeve, Location: Romania PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:09 pm
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Karry asked
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But what was the answer?????????


That was the last line of the article Evil or Very Mad
#4:  Author: Karry, Location: Stoke on Trent PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:37 pm
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There are times when i feel like getting article writers by the throat and shaking them!
#5:  Author: Róisín, Location: Ireland PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:19 pm
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I can't figure out why she even asked her. Had she come across EBD's name in the list in the first paragraph? The question about the CS seems to come out of nowhere.
#6:  Author: Rosea, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:22 pm
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My impression is its a dig, following on from the idea that Posh Spice is considered equally worthy to key figures in the women's movement and that if she thinks that then she probably also spends her time reading EBD i.e what the writer considers socially/historically insignificant.
Sorry I don't seem to have expressed that very clearly!
#7:  Author: Maeve, Location: Romania PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:56 am
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Róisín asked
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Had she come across EBD's name in the list in the first paragraph?


No, there had been no mention of EBD or boarding schools or girls literature - nothing like that.
#8:  Author: keren, Location: Israel PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:20 am
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I read it differently

Chalet school is just as important as those things mentioned about, but what is close to the writers heart.
She would not have mentioned CS if she was not a fan
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