I feel like our reading lives are running on parallel tracks, Barb. I read Miss Buncle, I think in the fall of last year. And I just read The Wildes a month or so ago. I didn't know anything about Wilde's story beyond the trial. I loved the alternative ending, the flash of what might have been a different way to live.
One of the highlights of my husband's life was spending hours in the British museum, researching a 19th century mathematician and his attempt to form a men and women's club to answer "the woman question." When we went to London, we made sure to have a pint at the pub across the street, which is where Karl Marx would have lunch while he was doing all the research for Capital. Pretty cool.
What an interesting story. I may have to read it. And,yes, I too feel a lot of sadness for friends and family members who finally felt comfortable out in the open. Who knows how things will be for them now.
Clearly a case of "great minds"! Love that your husband got to do research at the British Museum.
I feel like our reading lives are running on parallel tracks, Barb. I read Miss Buncle, I think in the fall of last year. And I just read The Wildes a month or so ago. I didn't know anything about Wilde's story beyond the trial. I loved the alternative ending, the flash of what might have been a different way to live.
One of the highlights of my husband's life was spending hours in the British museum, researching a 19th century mathematician and his attempt to form a men and women's club to answer "the woman question." When we went to London, we made sure to have a pint at the pub across the street, which is where Karl Marx would have lunch while he was doing all the research for Capital. Pretty cool.
What an interesting story. I may have to read it. And,yes, I too feel a lot of sadness for friends and family members who finally felt comfortable out in the open. Who knows how things will be for them now.
Can’t wait to read!