Hello Lovely Listeners,
Please welcome back the lovely Kari Nixon Ph.D!
She is back to breakdown "The West Room," written by Lucy Hardy a.k.a. Catherine Lord. This version was published in The Canterbury Journal October 25th 1895, but first WE LEARN! Then after, we will discuss the answers to last episodes Riddles, but first WE LEARN! What would you do if you had a book with text that was foreign to you, and you kept finding distracting topics to talk about? Well, we know what we would do. Hop hop hop around like bunnies.
Did Lucy Hardy a.k.a. Cathrine Lord think that men were irrelevant to the story? Was Lucy a Victorian feminist? Such agreeable characteristics to note.
The Victorians believed that a woman’s emotional state during pregnancy, marked the pregnancy. Cravings, and fears affect the pregnancy or the baby directly, in this case the fear and dread marked the baby for death. The Victorians thought that a shock or fearful moment could affect the pregnancy or baby.
This short story could be described as a female empowerment story, due to the main characters being females.
Shout outs and references to the following:
British Newspaper archive
The British Library
Whitworth University
British Periodicals (archive)
Jstor hacking in 2011 - Aaron Hillel Swartz - in 2013 he killed himself after being sentenced to prison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Middle English Language
Linguistics
Scottish / Norwegian connections
Poetry Foundation
Canterbury tales prologe
Steve the vagabond and silly linguist - The Canterbury Tales in middle english with translation lines 1 - 18
https://youtu.be/mVG77xTPH6E
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
University Libraries
Beowulf
https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/liviarndal/
Impressions by Livia Woods @profwoodsUIS
“The other way about” a poem, author unknown
"In Victorian England dolls break you" - Kari Nixon 2021
Words with a history
Turns out Nickolas Cage played Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
The definition of humor differs from what we assumed, it could be that in this issue, the Victorian Brits were referring to the American mood or state of mind, which is the second definition of humor.
Toodles,
Owen and Kari
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