tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post2947307121370337386..comments2024-03-24T00:12:38.570-07:00Comments on Light, Bright, and Sparkling: Buried in Santa Monica - A Visit with Dame Christabel PankhurstDiana Birchallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18291540900938654707noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-63936222655261577992023-01-25T05:02:18.755-08:002023-01-25T05:02:18.755-08:00Love your words!
Re: changing cat name. Going...Love your words! <br /><br />Re: changing cat name. Going from "Christabel" to "Catullus." Does the cat respond to the name? As if cats ever do....<br /><br />Also, as an expert in Austen world, do you know my friend Gina Fattore? She's not only into Jane, but also Frances Burney. Bigly.<br /><br />Best love!Meemshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08847341689622526641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-73299988611647504142018-09-30T21:18:05.457-07:002018-09-30T21:18:05.457-07:00Hmm. I wonder whether she knew my Great Grandmothe...Hmm. I wonder whether she knew my Great Grandmother Christabel Wilcox Conner, who was born in Santa Clara in 1878... They might have crossed paths. The poem was the inspiration for her name, too. I wonder, though, whether the father who chose that name read the whole (unfinished) poem, as the ending changes the "whom her father loved so well" into an ironic past tense. <br />Kitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05869180839706543339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-75702922240961279992011-09-17T20:40:47.033-07:002011-09-17T20:40:47.033-07:00This is a wonderful website page! Christabel was a...This is a wonderful website page! Christabel was a fantastic person, and those who like her and admire her share the spirit that was given to her and which she developed, to her credit. Thanks again. -- Clif MobergClif Moberghttp://berkeleyversion.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-90731367761045815452010-05-03T04:46:02.279-07:002010-05-03T04:46:02.279-07:00Lovely blog. It reads so lucidly and easily and y...Lovely blog. It reads so lucidly and easily and you get a lot in -- about the library, and California culture too, as well as basically unknown information about Christabel.<br /><br />That which reads easily and conveys much lightly can take a long time to prepare -- especially with pictures.<br /><br />Reading about how a woman could get a degree as a lawyer and then be prevented from practicing at the bar reminds me of the life and story of Emily Kempen-Spyri who I wrote about in one of my first blogs for my new blog:<br /><br />http://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/eveline-haslers-life-of-emily-kempin-spyri/<br /><br />Also of your example (in an email) of Lady Constance Lytton who died of the treatment she received: thrown in prison, let to rot when she was very sick. <br /><br />I feel the ferocity of the male response to women wanting to vote (and they were brutal as well as murderous) shows the vote is important and about power - I'd see it as gaining access somehow to something that can help them outside their families or the male in question. If not immediately, in the long run. That males could act on the long range this way shows how they want to control women and also families as a group did (like Mary Ward wanting to control all the people in her family). When jobs opened up for a while (I'd put it) for women about 140 years ago, the people who had them to offer were willing to hire women in big numbers: they saw the women would come cheap and be docile, but you might think the same man would not do this for the reasons he'd beat his wife before he let her vote. But no: making an immediate profit was more important, or the job less threatening than that vote. <br /><br />So men did not line up to prevent other men from hiring women. Remember the behavior of men in the 19th century included duelling which was a way of mortally threatening other men (or humiliating them if they did not stand to the appointment) in order to enforce your point of view. In present traditional societies, men do still behave that way in groups to prevent women from gaining any access to the public sphere.<br /><br />Ellen MoodyEllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-11641958843856075842010-05-02T09:07:28.609-07:002010-05-02T09:07:28.609-07:00Diana~~~~
Thank You for the suffragette History a...Diana~~~~<br /><br />Thank You for the suffragette History and great photo Tour this early Sunday AM~~~sitting back in my chair I'm there~~~~~~and Of course yes definitely adopt the little "Torti" ~~~and Yes I prefer *Christabel* for the Kitty~~~~~;-)<br /><br />Christychristy somerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805030265490932853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-70880410356847765052010-05-02T04:58:53.216-07:002010-05-02T04:58:53.216-07:00Such an interesting and fascinating post today, Di...Such an interesting and fascinating post today, Diana. Fancy that she was buried in Santa Monica. I had no idea either, of course. A very poignant reminder and topical for us Brits that we should exercise our democratic right next Thursday! BarbaraBarbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196530511497772957noreply@blogger.com