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Thomas Buddenbrook in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, meditating on the irritations of growing old: “We’re only as young or old as we feel. And when something good we’ve longed for finally does come along, it lumbers in a little too late somehow, loaded down with petty, annoying, upsetting details, covered with all the grime of reality
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Richard Grannison in Raymond Postgate’s Somebody at the Door soliloquises about afternoons: “Afternoons are the time for seduction. Anatole France proved it long ago … “Consider the whole question in the light of reason … The conventional night out. What does it mean? Why, creeping home about five in the morning, very tired and uncomfortable,
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The joy of research, as described in Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen’s The Rabbit Back Literature Society: What joy is there in research, anyway? someone had once asked in one of her methodology courses. The teaching assistant’s answer had made an impression on Ella at the time: Research brings order to the world. It makes things clearer,
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Here’s the link to a podcast of a Round Table discussion I took part in last month (May 2023), about the Empress Catherine II of Russia. https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/catherine-great-a-celebrity-across-time
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This is about one of the projects I’ve been working on recently, researching the hidden histories of women in the City of London, from the Norman Conquest to the mid-twentieth century.
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When an editor or proofreader works on someone’s text in Microsoft Word, it is usual for them to use ‘Track Changes’ (one of the options in the ‘Review’ tab). The great advantage of this is that the author of the text can see the corrections and/or amendments that have been made by the editor/proofreader, and
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In the autumn of last year I was commissioned to write a research paper on women in the City, from the Norman Conquest to 1950, during the whole of which period City women were often unseen (because not looked for). It was a fascinating, though daunting, project, & of course all I could do was
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Very good advice on editing from “Mrs Hawkins” in Muriel Spark’s A Far Cry from Kensington: ‘When you are editing copy, Mrs Hawkins, what sort of things do you look for?’ said Howard Send. ‘Exclamation marks and italics used for emphasis,’ I said. ‘And I take them out.’ It was as good an answer as
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Originally posted on Virginia Rounding: Author, editor, proofreader, indexer: A blackbird alone in the dying sun’s footlights sings to a backdrop of indigo blue; for the sound of its voice, for the sake of the singing, it plays out the longest day of the year. Perched on the rooftop, stop-out blackbird, late home, carousing, careless…
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