#Marian L Thomas

[fideidefenswhore]

What if Anne Boleyn had lived to see Mary come to the throne? Do you see Mary doing everything she can to get rid of her? Would Anne suffer from the same fate as Thomas Cramner?

Mm, that's a popular AU to be sure, but I think the political realities would have been rather more complex in such a counterfactual.

First, I'd have to ask the circumstances of them both surviving and Mary coming to the throne-- has Henry had his marriage with Anne annulled, with her being exiled from court? Or has Anne been Queen throughout the remainder of his reign? Has she had a son? Has there been any alteration or reversal to the Act of Succession (1534)? Has there been any alteration or reversal to the Act that declared Anne regent for her children, should Henry die? Have all her child/ren died, or has Elizabeth merely been married abroad (ie, is she currently living at the French court, wed to whichever prince or duke)? Does Mary have a husband, and if so, who is he, and what wealth and power and claims (to the English throne, or others, or merely title) does he have?

Assuming the second, and assuming Mary, as a sole femme, has a successful coup regardless (so, perhaps Anne attempts to assume regency with Elizabeth but is overthrown), again, the political realities are going to be complex. Edward VI's death happening in such secrecy and him altering the succession to make Jane Grey his heir without the approval of Parliament were circumstances that were to her advantage; all bolstered the rhetoric and justification of her coup, accession, and reign (based on the Act of Succession of 1543, even though she reversed her illegitimacy therein). The Marian myth was that John Dudley, out of pure ambition and greed, usurped the royal prerogative (of both HVIII and Edward VI) and forged an altered succession to place his daughter-in-law on the throne (and, as you mentioned, Cranmer as well).

So, in these altered circumstances, Mary's task would be near impossible. How could her propagandists argue that Anne had done the same, when all she had done was adhere to Acts of Parliament which were very well-known by the people? What would the justification be for her arrest in this scenario, much less execution? Historically, after his arrest, Mary petitioned the Pope at the time to have Cranmer excommunicated (likely, she didn't want to have any parallels with her father drawn in the case of the execution of Bishop/Cardinal Fisher) before his execution. In this, she succeeded, and being thus excommunicated, Cranmer was no longer Archbishop of Canterbury upon his day of execution. I would imagine that she would attempt the same in this counterfactual with AB and Cranmer both, and whether she was successful in securing their excommunications might then inform her actions.

Edit: Tbh, what I conceptualize for this scenario would be more like a succession/civil war for the throne with two female claimants (so, Mary and Elizabeth/Anne’s regency), similar in nature to that of Princess Juana vs Princess Isabella in the 1470s (it would be … very difficult for Mary to argue Elizabeth wasn’t Henry’s child had these Acts of Parliament remained and Anne herself remained Queen, though, as Isabella did for Juana re: Henry IV of Castile, since she didn’t really manage to do that even in the aftermath of Anne’s adultery accusations, and she certainly tried) and I think it’d be a toss-up as to who would emerge the victor. Reason being, as I was just reminded of answering another ask, Anne was the greatest landowner among all the Tudor consorts. Mary I was also a great landowner by the time Edward VI died, because the council was at pains to ‘buy her goodwill’… this backfired, though, because it strengthened her base of power (Jeri L. McIntosh has done some fantastic work in this subject, btw), and played a huge part in why her coup succeeded. Simply put, landowning was power, was wealth. That’s probably what it would come down to, had she been granted as many lands during the beginning of the regency council for Elizabeth or whatever son AB might have had.

Another thing that would tip the scales would be if Mary received foreign aid via Imperial forces, but given Charles V never supplied any in 1553…

And again, excommunication, although Elizabeth or whatever son probably wasn’t going to be excommunicated as a minor (just like Edward VI wasn’t), maybe Anne might have been? This could also be a factor in whether or not Mary received foreign aid from any Catholic powers. Although, yk, HVIII and Elizabeth I both were excommunicated and yet they were never ousted from their thrones.

Anyway! Something to think about . Thanks for the intriguing question ☺️

#purplefictionlover #and of course; the advice of her councilors.... #philip ii didn't want elizabeth to be executed; altho if she were already married i don't know what his feelings about the whole thing woul #be (assuming he's become king consort in this AU as well) #i don't know what he would have felt or thought about AB in this scenario altho certainly he does not seem to have #done anything for cranmer.

[throwawaytherapist]

Here it is ladies! A list of female biographies! Highly anticipated by nobody but myself! This took a long time, so I hope it might be enjoyable to at least some people. I'll add to this whenever I feel like it. A few things before I begin:

1. The list is (roughly) organized alphabetically by the subjects last name.

2. The subjects occupation (if they had one) will be labeled with a corresponding symbol (i.e. painter = 🎨, writer =✏️, and so on and so forth). Books about same sex attracted women (lesbian or bi women) and women of color are labeled. Occupations that cannot be easily represented by symbols will simply be stated.

3. Biographies written or co-written by men will have with 🧔 after their names.

4. The subjects full birth name will be in brackets after the title.

5. If you're curious about a book and want more information or content warnings, please message me. I'll help as best I can.

•Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey [Abigail Adams] (Activist)

•Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra [Marian Hooper Adams]

•Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas [Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams]

•Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight [Jane Addams] (Activist, SSA)

•Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet by Roberta Reeder [Anna Andreyevna Gorenko] (✏️)

•Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen [Louisa May Alcott] (Activist, SSA,✏️)

•Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan [Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva] (✏️)

•Marian Anderson, A Singers Journey by Allen Keiler 🧔 [Marian Anderson] (WOC, Activist, 🎙)

•The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling [Mary Anning] (🦕)

•Susan B. Anthony: A Biography by Kathleen Barry [Susan B. Anthony] (Activist, SSA)

•Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser [Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne] (👑)

•Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade [Eleanor of Aquitaine] (👑)

•Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight [Catherine of Aragon] ( 👑)

•Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksley [Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll] (👑)

•Everything She Touched: Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase [Ruth Aiko Asawa] (WOC, Sculptor)

•Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields [Jane Austen] (✏️)

•Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain by Silvia Z. Mitchell [Mariana of Austria] (👑)

•The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Brigette Hamann [Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary] (👑)

•Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Cosmic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer 🧔 [Lucille Désirée Ball] (🎥)

•Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara by Eve Golden [Theodosia Burr Goodman, "Theda Bara"] (📽)

•Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez [Natalie Clifford Barney] (SSA, ✏️)

•Josephine: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker 🧔 [Freda Josephine McDonald Baker] (WOC, SSA, Dancer, 📽)

•A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and The Civil War by Stephan B. Oates 🧔 [Clarissa Harlowe Barton] (🩺)

•Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly L. Craft [Countess Erzsébet Báthory de Ecsed] (Serial Killer)

•Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair [Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir] (Activist, ✏️)

•The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd [Aphra Behn] (✏️)

•Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach [Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell] (Archaeologist)

•Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding [Vanessa Stephen Bell] (🎨)

•Ingrid Bergman by Grace May Carter [Ingrid Bergman] (🎥)

•Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World's First Superstar by Catherine Reef [Henriette-Rosine Bernard, "Sarah Bernhardt"] (🎭)

•Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant [Annie Wood Besant] (Activist, ✏️)

•Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto [Benazir Bhutto] (WOC, Prime Minister)

•Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks [Saint Hildegard] (Abbess, Musician)

•Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven [Ada Delutuk Blackjack] (WOC, Explorer)

•The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura [Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell] (🩺)

•Lady Icarus: Balloonomania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Noyes [Marie Madeleine-Sophie Armant Blanchard] (🎈)

•Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth by Marion Meade [Helena Petrovna von Hahn Blavatsky] (✏️)

•Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger [Elizabeth Jane Cochran Seaman, "Nellie Bly"] (Activist, Reporter)

•Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts [Anne Boleyn] (👑)

•Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte by Kate Williams [Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie Bonaparte] (👑)

•The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson [Lizzie Andrew Borden] (🪓)

•Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford [Lucrezia Borgia] (Governor)

•Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge [Boudica] (👑, 🗡)

•Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White [Margaret Bourke-White] (📷)

•Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David Stenn 🧔[Clara Gordan Bow] (📽)

•The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien's Inspiration by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays 🧔 [Edith Mary Bratt Tolkien]

•The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert [Eva Anna Paula Braun Hitler] (📷)

•Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Lady Anne Somerset [Anne, Queen of Great Britain] (👑)

•Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson [Georgia Ann Thompson Broadwick] (🪂)

•The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne by Catherine Reef [Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jane Brontë, Anne Brontë] (✏️)

•Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen [Margaret Tobin Brown] (Socialite)

•The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen 🧔 [Mildred Burke] (Wrestler)

•Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden by Gretchen Gerzina [Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett] (✏️)

•Josephine Butler by Jane Jordan [Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler] (Activist)

•Lady Byron and Her Daughters by Julia Markus [Anna Isabella Noel Milbanke Byron, 11th Baroness of Wentworth] (Mathematician)

•Theodora by Paolo Cesaretti 🧔 [Theodora Empress of Byzantium] (👑)

•Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer Laurie Shaw [Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, "Claude Cahun"] (SSA, 📷)

•Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography by Anne Edwards [Sophie Cecilia Kalos, "Maria Callas"] (Opera Singer)

•Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda J. Lear [Rachel Louise Carson] (✏️, Marine Biologist)

•A Girl and Five Brave Horses by Sonora Webster Carver [Sonora Webster Carver] (Horse Diver)

•Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes [Mary Ann Shadd Cary] (WOC, Activist, Publisher)

•Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of Marchesa Casati by Scot D. Ryersson 🧔 and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 🧔 [Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino] (Socialite)

•Mary Cassatt: A Life by Nancy Mathews [Mary Stevenson Cassatt] (🎨)

•Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman [Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire] (Activist,✏️)

•Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett 🧔 [Isabella I of Castile] (👑)

•Chanel: The Enigma by Isabelle Fiemeyer [Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel] (👗)

•The Edge of Time: The Authoritative Biography of Kalpana Chawla by Jean-Pierre Harrison 🧔 [Kalpana Chawla] (WOC, Astronaut, Engineer)

•The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modren China by Hannah Pakuka [Soong May-ling] (WOC)

•Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch [Julia Carolyn McWilliams Child] (👩‍🍳)

•Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm [Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm] (WOC, Politician)

•Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley [Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie, Lady Mallowan] (✏️)

•Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Lauched Modern China by Jung Chang [The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi of the Great Qing Empire] (WOC, 👑)

•Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell [Clementine Oglivy Spencer Hozior Churchill] (War-time Activist)

•Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff [Cleopatra VII Philopator] (👑)

•Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America's Youngest First Lady by Annette B. Dunlap [Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston]

•Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride by Elizabeth Norton [Anne of Cleves] (👑)

•Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, "Colette"] (SSA, ✏️)

•In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum [Marie Catherine Colvin] (Journalist)

•Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House by Robert Hugh Ferrell 🧔 [Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge] (Teacher)

•Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius by Edna Healey [Emma Wedgwood Darwin]

•Alexandra David-Neel: Portrait of an Adventurer by Ruth Middleton [Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David-Néel] (Explorer)

•Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis by Abigail Santamaria [Helen Joy Davidson] (✏️)

•Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies by Lara Gabrielle [Marion Cecilia Douras] (📽)

•Bette Davis by Grace May Carter [Ruth Elizabeth Davis] (🎥)

•Emily Wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette by Lucy Fisher [Emily Wilding Davison] (Activist, Teacher)

•The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers 🧔 [Gladys Marie Deacon Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough] (Socialite)

•Sentiments of a British-American Woman: Easter de Berdt Reed and the American Revolution by Owen S. Ireland 🧔 [Easter de Berdt Reed] (War-time Activist)

•Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de La Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead [Henriette-Lucy Dillon, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet] (Aristocrat)

•Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda [Catherine de' Medici] (👑)

•Queen Alexandra: Loyalty and Love by Frances Diamond [Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia of Denmark] (👑)

•Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy by Charlotte Cooper-Davis [Christina da Pizzano] (✏️)

•Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant by Kathi Diamant [Dora Diamant] (🎭)

•The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Lillian Nayder [Catherine Thomson Hogarth Dickens] (✏️)

•Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Wolff [Emily Elizabeth Dickinson] (SSA, ✏️)

•Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman [Baroness Karen Chistenze Dinesen von Blixen-Finecke, "Isak Dinesen"] (✏️)

•Emily Donelson of Tennessee by Pauline Wilcox Burke [Emily Donelson]

• The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew Kaufman 🧔 [Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina Dostoevskaya] (✏️)

•I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal by Mary Mudd [Livia Drusilla] (👑)

•Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne Du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay [Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning] (SSA, ✏️)

•My Life by Isadora Duncan [Angela Isadora Duncan] (SSA, Dancer)

•Eleonora Duse: A Biography by Helen Sheehy [Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse] (SSA, 🎭)

•East to Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler [Amelia Mary Earhart] (🛩)

•Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life by Amy Aronson [Crystal Catherine Eastman] (Activist, Lawyer)

•Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady by Marilyn Holt [Mary Geneva Doud Eisenhower]

•The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir [Elizabeth the I of England] (👑)

•Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley [Empress Matilda of England] (👑)

•Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald by Geoffrey Mark [Ella Jane Fitzgerald] (WOC, 🎙)

•Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford [Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald] (✏️)

•Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel [Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Dauphine of France] (👑)

•The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret Rosenthal [Veronica Franco] (Activist, ✏️)

•Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox [Rosalind Elsie Franklin] (🧬)

•Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore [Jane Franklin Mecom]

•The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography by John Matteson 🧔 [Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli] (Activist, Journalist)

•Indira Gandhi: A Biography by Pupul Jayakar [Indira Priyadarshini Nehru Gandhi] (WOC, Prime Minister)

•Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin [Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin] (Astronomer)

•Garbo by Robert Gottlieb 🧔 [Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, "Greta Garbo"] (SSA, 🎥)

•Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery 🧔 [Emma Rowena Caldwell Gatewood] (Hiker)

•Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis [Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau] (Socialite)

•Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead [Martha Ellis Gellhorn] (Journalist)

•Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Jane Lancaster [Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth] (Psychologist, Engineer)

•Jane Goodall: The Woman who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson 🧔 [Dame Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall] (🐵)

•Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham by Agnes de Mille [Martha Graham] (Dancer)

•Personal History by Katherine Graham [Katherine Meyer Graham] (Publisher)

•The General's Wife: The Life of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant by Ishbel Ross [Julia Boggs Dent Grant]

•Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers 🧔 [Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg, Princess of Greece and Denmark] (👑)

•Caty: A Biography of Catherine Littlefield Greene by John F. Stegeman 🧔 and Janet A. Stegeman [Catherine Littlefield Greene Miller] (Inventor)

•Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden [Lady Jane Grey] (👑)

•Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle by Janet Guthrie [Janet Guthrie] (🏎)

•A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell [Virginia Hall] (Espionage Agent)

•England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams [Dame Amy Emma Lyon Hamilton] (Maid)

•Lady in the Navy: A Personal Reminiscence by Joy Bright Hancock [Joy Bright Hancock] (Warrant Officer)

•Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber [Ruth Marianna Mosko Handler] (Business Woman)

•First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy by Katherine A. S. Sibley [Florence Mabel Kling Harding]

•Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer [Anne Hathaway]

•The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney [Hatshepsut] (WOC, 👑)

•Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian 🧔 [Mary Welsh Hemingway] (Journalist)

•Queen of Ice, Queen of Shadows: The Unsuspected Life of Sonja Henie by Leif Henie 🧔 and Raymond Strait 🧔 [Sonja Henie] (⛸️)

•Katherine Hepburn by Grace May Carter [Katherine Houghton Hepburn] (🎥)

•Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry [Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin] (Chemist)

•Grace Hooper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt Beyer 🧔 [Grace Brewster Murray Hooper] (Computer Scientist, Navy Admiral)

•Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady by Nancy Beck Young [Lou Henry Hoover] (Activist, Linguist)

•A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford [Whitney Elizabeth Houston] (WOC, SSA, 🎤)

•Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell 🧔 [Catherine Howard] (👑)

•The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard by Mina Benson Hubbard [Mina Benson Hubbard] (Explorer)

•The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn J. Westerkamp [Anne Marbury Hutchinson] (Minister)

•Geisha of Gion: Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki by Mineko Iwasaki and Rande Gail Brown [Mineko Iwasaki] (WOC, Former Geisha,✏️)

•Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin [Shirley Hardie Jackson] (✏️)

•Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson [Katherine Johnson] (WOC, Mathematician)

•Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell [Claudia Atla Taylor Johnson] (Environmentalist)

•Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox [Nora Barnacle Joyce] (✏️)

•Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera [Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón] (WOC, SSA, 🎨)

•The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story by Barbara Firth and Emily Gibson [Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman] (🏊‍♀️)

•Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson [Rose Marie Kennedy]

•Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter by Barbara Leaming [Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington] (Socialite)

•Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara [Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver] (Disability Rights Activist)

•Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Edythe Scott Bagley and Joe Hilley 🧔 [Coretta Scott King] (WOC, Activist, ✏️)

•The Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross 🧔 [Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Queen of the United Kingdom] (👑)

•Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro and Patricia Weiss Levy [Eartha Mae Keith Kitt] (WOC, Activist, 🎙, 🎥)

•Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis [Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester and Essex] (👑)

•The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot [Loretta Pleasant Lacks, Deborah Lacks Pullum] (WOC)

•Madame Lalaurie: Mistress of the Haunted House by Carolyn Morrow Long [Marie Delphine Macarty Lalaurie] (Serial Killer)

•Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton [Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, "Hedy Lamarr"] (Inventor, 📽)

•Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe by Geri Walton [Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe] (Aristocrat)

•Harriet Lane, America's First Lady by Milton Stern 🧔 [Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston]

•Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon [Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn] (📷)

•In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line by George B. Hutchinson 🧔 [Nellallitea Walker Larsen] (WOC, ✏️)

•Rani Laxmibai: Warrior Queen of Jhansi by Pratibha Ranade [Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi] (WOC, 👑, 🗡)

•Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward [Marie Catherine Laveau] (WOC, Herbalist)

•The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith [Marguerite Alice LeHand] (Secretary)

•Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine Ida Lewis by Lenore Skomal [Idawalley Zoradia Lewis] (Lighthouse Keeper)

•Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker [Mary Ann Todd Lincoln]

•Anne Marrow Lindbergh: Her Life by Susan Hertog [Anne Spencer Marrow Lindbergh] (✏️, 🛩)

•Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser 🧔 [Clarice Lispector] (✏️)

•Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery [Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth] (Socialite, ✏️)

•Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux [Audrey Geraldine Lorde] (WOC, SSA, Activist, ✏️)

•Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist by Adrian Clifford Rice 🧔, Christopher Hollings 🧔, and Ursula Martin [Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace] (Mathematician)

•Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery [Juliette Gordon Low] (Founder of Girl Scouts)

•Rosa Luxemburg by Dana Mills [Rosa Luxemburg] (Anti-War Activist)

•A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor [Dolley Payne Todd Madison]

•Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob [Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela] (WOC, Activist, Politician)

•Terrible Typoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti [Mary Mallon] (🍲)

•Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller [Wilma Pearl Mankiller] (WOC, Activist)

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[whatdoesshedotothem]

Wednesday 6 May 1835

8 5

11 50

no kiss finish morning - ready in an hour - George off to York about 8 ½ am did not see him this morning - had given the necessary orders last night - he took my letter to ‘Mr Thomas Register office for servants minster yard York’ and my letter to ‘Mr George Cooper veterinary surgeon Micklegate York’ breakfast at 9 5 at which hour F53° - sat downstairs till 10 50 writing out the whole of yesterday and so far of this morning and inking over the accounts of the last few days in my rough book - Holt came about 11 - mentioned to him my idea of stopping the Spiggs water immediately - he advised my so doing but would have me 1st consult Mr Norris as the cleverest attorney in the town about the colliery concerns - we went out about 11 ¾ and found Messrs. Leather and Washington at the brook where the projected dam should commence - L- for having the brook guaged and the quantity of water ascertained before anything is done - the guages [gauges] to be set and the results noted down from now till the end of October so that all must stand over till November or December - asked L- the best work on hydrodynamics - some of the works (as Lardner’s) too popular Fergusons’ lectures on mechanics 3 vols. 8vo published in Edinburgh and edited by Brewster perhaps the best work on the subject - Emersons’ works good - Brought L- and W- up to the house sat with them till Matthew brought in the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding from after the servants dinner and then left the 2 gents to dine by themselves - like L- very well in his capacity of Engineer - he seems clever enough - he is a thorough blue -  Holt had handsomely given me his vote – SW- more close but will give in I think at last - ½ hour with my father and Marian - she annoyed that Holt should have given me his vote - she will get hold of the Shibden estate if by any means of flaw in my uncle’s will or mine, she can - she if in my place would not have taken up the estate on the condition of leaving it to the Welsh Listers - she talked much and annoyingly but I answered with great temper and composure and conciliation -

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A- had walked to Cliff hill between 1 and 2 - off about or after 2 with Pearson to the gin to see tried a black galloway I might have for £6 did not like it - Holt there -walked with him as far as the top of the new bank and then turned towards Godley - called on William Moore - not at home to come this evening to Shibden if fine- sat sometime with old Wilkinson at his house - would have given me his vote I believe but he had really promised it to the yellows - then a little while at Joseph Wilkinson meaning to ask Jack Green for his vote but said nothing for Joseph had neutralized him or he would have voted with Mr Hodgson for the yellows - then home - washed etc - then off at 5 ¼ in my father’s carriage to Cliff hill for A- gone - called at Crownest - not there - she got wet in returning on foot and I had my jaunt for nothing - dinner at 6 ¾ - coffee - sat talking till too late to go to my father - wrote the above (except the 1st 5 lines) of today till 10 5 -  Letter this morning from Mr Harper (York) to say he cannot come till next week but will be on Monday or Tuesday morning - note from Mr. Adam this afternoon to say Mr. Parker (South Devon) was 634 a head of Lord John Russell - 25 minutes with my aunt till 10 ½ - finis day till about 5 pm and afterwards rainy evening - F53 1/2° now  at 10 55 pm

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[ellsworth-kelly]

White Curve, Ellsworth Kelly, 2009, Art Institute of Chicago: Contemporary Art

Commissioned by The Art Institute of Chicago in honor of James N. Wood, President and Director, 1980–2004. Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection Fund; Emily Rauh Pulitzer; Frederick W. Renshaw Acquisition, Mary and Leigh Block Endowment, and Ada Turnbull Hertle funds; Wirt D. Walker Trust; Joseph Shapiro, Helen A. Regenstein Endowment, Marian and Samuel Klasstorner, and Gladys N. Anderson funds; Getty Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Haffner III, Mr. and Mrs. David C. Hilliard, and Susan and Lewis Manilow; anonymous gift; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bryan, Stuart D. and Nancie Mishlove, Julius Lewis and the Rhoades Foundation, Margot and Thomas Pritzker, Burt and Anne Kaplan, Frances Dittmer, Marilynn B. Alsdorf, and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice F. Fulton; Robert Allerton Income Purchase and Director's funds; Claire and Gordon Prussian, and Nancy A. Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal; Capital Campaign General Acquisitions Endowment; Polk Bros. Foundation; Marjorie and Louis B. Susman, Patricia A. Woodworth, Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Mrs. Jetta N. Jones, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon I. Segal. Size: 14 × 54 × 3 feet (4.3 × 16.5 × .08 m) Medium: Painted aluminum

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[misslisterkeepsajournal]

Friday 7 March 1834

6 10/.. 12 1/2

|| + + L LL

very fine morning Fahrenheit 49 1/2° at 7 10/.. a.m. at which hour went out - the masons did not come of 1/2 hour met Charles H- [Howarth] coming at 7 1/4 - Till near 10 giving orders about the upper buttery - this to be done up immediately - the 1st. thing - Charles says will be ready for Thomas to get into it in a fortnight -

breakfast with Marian a little before 10 - afterwards all the morning, while Charles and James H- [Howarth] in the upper buttery and till 2 p.m. looking over and burning the papers that were in the large old writing desk that stood there - Mr. Sunderland came between 1 and 2 - thinks my aunt rather her anodyne draughts are morphia - thinks she may get over the summer - an hour or 2 with John Booth while he dressed up about the Lime Tree near farm yard doors, then with Charles and James Howarth hunting out the old oak wainscot taken from the library, &c. and seeing how to use it up in the upper buttery -

Stood talking to Marian near an hour till after 7 in the hall - Laughed and asked which would suit me best, M- [Mariana] or Miss W- [Walker]? she thought the latter - would be more convenient and then agreed with me that she would suit me in every respect the best I said I would rather take her connections than ¬¬ s [Mariana]s yes said Marian and so would I they say in York Mrs Henry Belcombes father was a tea dealer and her first husband a spirit merchant (said I did not know) and Miss Bagshaw got drunk at parties but I was not to tell this both my father and Marian seem pleased about Miss W [Walker] said I thought I should be happier with her than I should now be with Mrs Lawton to which Marian seemed to agree without the least surprise I merely added but many things happen between the cup and the lip as if I did not feel quite sure of Miss W [Walker] as yet -

dinner at 7 1/4 and coffee and reading over it from page 306 to 364 Waldensian Researches 2nd series till 8 40/.. - then came to my study and wrote the above of today - Pickels and his son John finished dry wall at Farm yard doors, levelled a bit along the garden wall, and finished topping and doing up Park wood wall - Mallinson hewing string course for chimney and his one man walling up chimney to be ready for it - read forward to page 379. then from 9 20/.. an hour with my aunt then an hour reading the morning Herald -

kind Letter tonight from Lady Stuart 3 pp. [pages] of 1/2 sheet - and Kind 4 pp. [pages] of 1/2 sheet from Lady V. C- [Vere Cameron] and the envelope Kind 1 page and one end from Lady S- de R- [Stuart de Rothesay] franked by Lord S- [Stuart de Rothesay] all well - Lady S. [Stuart] de R- [Rothesay] wants me to go and shew myself to my 'Granby relatives' -

James brought me letter from Washington this morning letter and parcel for Miss W- [Walker] opened the former he thinks Cordingleys farm well let as it is and better leave it so or else if he (Cordingley) is to pay taxes allowance must be made - very fine day Fahrenheit 54°. now at 12 tonight -

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[skgway]

1823 July, Mon. 28

8 50/60

11 1/2

See the last line of yesterday. Masturbation at twelve thinking of Tib. Slept uncomfortably and awoke at two and alas masturbation again, having just had a rigmarole dream of being in bed with Miss Lloyd of York, Miss Susan L[loyd]’s sister, and of pretending to be asleep while I had been grubbling her, she liking it exceedingly –

Disturbed rest from a little after 2 to 4 then awoke with a pretty severe bilious pain in my stomach – Tossed and tumbled about – Sick but not enough to give me much relief – Heard every clock struck – Merely dozed a little – Had been much heated and perhaps throwing the quilt off had brought on the pain – I had felt too suddenly cold, and pulled the clothes on again –

1/4 hour in the stable speaking to Charles Howarth – 3 pages very kind letter from Mrs. Norcliffe Langton – (the ends from Marianne Dalton to say she will write soon) – Mrs. N– [Norcliffe] is glad she can give me “a tent-bed” at the festival a room to myself “tho’ not too large and a most hearty welcome” – The party Mrs. N– [Norcliffe] I[sabella] N[orcliffe] and Charlotte and the 3 oldest girls from Croft –

No quarrel between Dr. Camidge and Greatorex – Speaking of Miss Fawkes, “one has often heard of “wedding haste,” but seldom sun such an instance as Miss Fawkes’s – A letter from York says they had met very often in town, but my information from Scarbro’ says, and that from a near relative, they had only met once, and that at dinner at her uncle Brandlings – Proposals the day following, and post haste down to York to learn his fate – Papa objected as too slight an acquaintance but the young lady was determined and lucky, for it is for her that he is a most worthy man, tho’ so would think “too much old” –

Went down to breakfast at 9 55/60 – Very bilious – Would not have got up but wished to go to H–x [Halifax] to see Marian etc. At 11 1/2 took George in the gig, and drove to Northgate – Marian well again or nearly so – Sat with her 10 minutes –

Called at Whitley’s, Mrs. N– [Norcliffe]’s Shakespeare gallery not arrived – The prints to be bound in 2 volumes 31/6 each volume – The gig waited at Mr. Banson’s door whole I walked a little with Mrs. R– [Rawson] of Stony Royde – Called on Mrs. William Rawson and Mrs. Saltmarshe, not admitted – Sat above 1/2 hour with Mrs. Stansfield R– [Rawson] and her daughter Catherine – Called on Mrs. C[hristopher] Saltmarshe and Mrs. Catherine R– [Rawson] who is staying with her, not admitted –

Called again at Northgate to speak to Thomas Greenwood about a black gig horse price 50 guineas to be bought of Illingworth of the anchor public house – The horse to come here at 4 this afternoon – Thomas had heard from several and Sugden, the horse breaker, said he used to see George galloping and tashing the horses thro the town and on the moor last winter, and people said we must have a very bad groo[m] at Shibden Hall. Thomas did not wish to injure any poor man, any servant, but our horses had looked like ketall this year. I said I would not bring his name into the business –

Ushered in Miss Elizabeth Prescott at Northgate, staid a few minutes and got home at 1 50/60 – My aunt and I sauntered down the lane into the hay fields – I told her the black mare had gone lame this morning – and I should send for Blamire this afternoon (George rode her yesterday to Huddersfield to see his friends at Lascelles hall) – She never went lame before – Did not hint at what I had heard, but said as I have often said before, I was dissatisfied with George as a groom and much wished my uncle would let me hire one myself and have him entirely of my own ordering, them perhaps we might have our horses as we ought to have –

Came upstairs at 2 10/60 – Wrote all the above of today – Read from page 104 to 211 Dr. Paris’s Pharmacologia. Blamire came at 6, the black mare’s off fore-foot a little gravelled – Took off the shoe pared down the crust, in 1 little place down to the sensible foot, filled it up with adhesive plaister (vide plaister adhesive volume 2 white) put a ledger of tow over it, and then the shoe on again – May use the mare again in a few days –

Blamire had brought a bottle of stuff to take down Hotspur’s splint on his near foreleg – Equal parts spirit turpentine and ammonia, (vide White volume 2 liquid blister and vide ammonia) and soap liniment to make it adhere – Blamire rubbed on about a tea-or dessert spoonful – This rubbing to be repeated several times at first every day then every other day – The horse turned out again within the hour (kept up a little for fear he should bite or rub the part while it smarted) and I observed in the field that the hair was brought off –

Finish day Came in to dinner at 6 1/2 – In the evening went into the field to the horses, and gave Hotspur oat-cake – Then sauntered along the new road and in the garden with my aunt and did not come in till 8 50/60 p.m. – Got some strawberries in the garden, I hope not too many –

Finish day – Barometer 1 1/2 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 57º at 8 50/60 p.m. E [two dots, treating venereal complaint] O [two dots, signifying discharge] Not so much as yesterday, yet Blamires coming prevented my washing before dinner –

Came upstairs at 10 55/60. Warm soap lather, as last night, of the hot water brought to bathe my eyes with –

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Thursday 7th July 1831

8 55/..

1

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L L L

Fahrenheit 72° ½ at 9 ¼ and very sunny morning - very bib[?]y inclined - Mrs. Anne had called for me at 8 ½ - breakfast at 9 40/.. before 11 went into Mrs. Anne and Miss. Gage and sat ½ hour with them in afterwards wrote the following note to Mr Lawton the proctor of further instruction for my will - ‘Sir it is so desirable (dated at the top ‘Micklegate Thursday 7 July 1831’) to keep the will as ‘clear as possible, perhaps it will be best to give the annuity as well as the legacies by codicil - I am anxious ‘to provide that the mansion house (Shibden hall) should not be let, but kept in good and sufficient repair and occupied for the people by such servants as the executors shall think fit - the executors should always have a discretionary power to make what allowance they think fit, but not at any time exceeding three hundred a year 1 for the education of the heir apparent to the property – 

I wish to bar the opening of any new coal mines or stone-quarries, and selling any privileges respecting the loosing or getting any beds or veins of coal not belonging to the estate, and to bar the cutting down of all timber except such as in the estimation of an experienced woodsman, it may be necessary to remove for the good growth of the rest – Instead of leaving the reminder to the heir at law of the late uncle James Lister I particularly wish it to be left to the heir at law of my great grandfather James Lister of Shibden hall - tho’ I have only added to the length and difficulty of the building, I feel confident that you will manage it with all the skill and care required - I am sincerely, &c &c &c A Lister the executors to have five hundred pound each’ –

Had just written this note when letter 3 pages and the ends from my aunt (Shibden) dated yesterday - my father more poorly on Monday - Marian had sent for Mr. Sunderland - my father afterwards better on Wednesday ‘complains of being very weak, tho’ otherwise not ill, but is certainly thinner and appears very feeble, owning perhaps in part, to the heat of the weather’ - the back room turns out to be 2 feet lower than my aunt’s room - and Mallinson now finds he could make a fireplace in the room for £2 or £3 - my aunt begs me to write immediately and say whether I thought it had better be done or not - Immediately wrote a couple of pages begging her to write again to say how my father is and saying £2 but a trifling additional expense and think the fireplace had best be done - but Mallinson to begin as soon as possible and stick to the job never leave it till done - the idea which my aunt throws out of being 5 weeks over it instead of 5 days is fearful - that at all rates, must not be - mentioned having paid Horner £11.11.0 much less than I expected –

Then sat talking a little - Mrs. Duffin had as she has had almost every day since the arrival a bad headache - a few minutes before 1 Mr Duffin and set off (ordering the carriage to wait at Monk Bar) and walked to Bell’s Bridge street and ordered a stethoscope price to be 12/. - then in passing called and inquired after Mr. Henry Belcombe - not so well today and left with compliments and thanks the stethoscope Dr. Belcombe lent me on Tuesday - then went to say goodbye to Mr. and Miss. Belcombe and Mr. Duffin being amused kept me above ½ hour that it was 2 10/.. before we got to Monk Bar and I was off for Langton - musing as I drove along how times and I myself perhaps have changed.

Latterly 4 or 5 miles from Langton dozed a little and arrived at 4 ½ - found Mrs. Norcliffe and IN [Isabella Norcliffe] and Charlotte and little Thomas Norcliffe Mrs. Henry Robinson and her baby nine weeks old and Esther and Elizabeth Dalton from Croft - all well and looking so and glad to see me - dressed - dinner at 5 ½ sat long after dinner then coffee and IN [Isabella Norcliffe] went upstairs and had long tête-à-tête with IN [Isabella Norcliffe] in her room - Tea - the 2 Daltons played Esther on the piano Elizabeth on the harp - came up to bed at 11 - Charlotte some time with me in my room some time both before and after IN [Isabella Norcliffe] came - Mrs. Duffin quite wrong - IN [Isabella Norcliffe] had had no quarrel with old Mr. Vallance - best friends in the world - after Charlotte went one thing led to another and stood ½ undressed talking to IN [Isabella Norcliffe] - and we talked surely an hour or more after getting into bed

Left this morning with Mrs. Duffin my note for ‘Mr. Lawton, Proctor, Petergate’ and my letter for my aunt ‘Mrs. Lister Shibden hall Halifax’ Mrs. Anne told me yesterday I had been so agreeable I did not need being annoyed at having staid till their company came to dinner and her calling for me this morning was more than I expected on taking leave they both kissed me and had both talked as if more really friendly than usual if I was really in earnest and pushed the living with perhaps more unlikely things have happened than my succeeding I certainly think Mrs. Anne has no great dislike to me or my attentions said yesterday I would not give her her the little bone virgin from chatellerault it was not good enough thinking to myself should I be gallant enough to give her something better? very fine day - Fahrenheit 68° at 1 tonight –

(Diary reference: SH7MLE140085)

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Thursday 24 January 1833

6 3/4

12 3/4

L  U  U  U

made my fire – hard frost – fine morning – Fahrenheit 45º in my room (good fire) at 8 5/.. and 24º at 8 1/4 a.m. just put outside my window – breakfast at 8 20/.. (not ready before) – with my father and some little time talKing to marian 

came to my room at 9 3/4 – Let[ter] 3 pp.[pages] and ends (comfortable) from M- [Mariana] (Lawton) – her going to Leamington delayed till the middle of next weeK with mr. L- [Lawton]  Thomas has got his clothes – has advanced him £4 – 10/.[shillings] a weeK board wages enough – wh[a]t the L-s [Lawtons] allow their servants – their Keeper will pay Thomas his, if I liKe – to direct to him at Lawton to the care of the gardener – nothing yet settled about Watson’s leaving M- [Mariana] the rector wants to give a weeKly lecture in the Sunday school – asKs my opinion – concludes with ‘your letters do me a vast of good, they comfort me in all ways, but in one particularly which I will talK about in my next – now I have no time for more than that I am always yours mariana’ – this is as it should be   the comfort is of course on the friendship subject  and it ought to be a comfort to her to have such as mine is capable of being and I hope will be –

out (after seeing my aunt) at 11 5/.. down the walK to the old brooK-course – the filling up nearly done – some time talKing to Jonathan mallinson – 22 years since the last payment was made for the upper brea water – then by the Pinnel to Southolm – the new mistal very convenient and will Keep the barn up, bring a good high prop – Hemingway not at home – thence up the wood to mr. Freeman’s (Brier Lodge) – wanted to see mr. F- [Freeman] about my intended new road along Jno.John Bottomley’s brow – waited about an hour – at last he came – will mention the thing on Saturday to some of the townsmen on Saturday come to Shibden and let me Know the result on Monday or Tuesday about 3 p.m. – said it ought to be 20 feet wide – I thought then that it would cost near £500 to complete it –

at F-s [Freeeman’s] from 1 10/.. to 2 20/.., then bacK by Southowram wood and across to Sowden’s, seeing some peeled oaK wood standing close above fit for railing – Inquired of mrs. Sowden – found it was yet to sell – sat 10 minutes with her – they have turned the stairs, and made the house much more comfortable than across into the Brighouse road and to yew trees and direct to Lidgate at 3 10/.. just as they (miss w- [Walker] and miss Rawson) had sat down to dinner –

sat there chiefly tête à tête with miss w- [Walker] (and a short while ditto with miss R- [Rawson] upstairs in her room) till 6 10/.. – miss w- [Walker] much as usual – wished me to stay all night, but I really could not – why should I sacrifice time and sleep oftener than I can well help  she seems getting worse  and will soon  I fear be quite beside herself  she fears evil spirits at night and dare not sleep poor soul her mental misery must be great  feeling as she says  it is all over  she has no hope of being saved –

home at 6 40/.. – dinner at 7 – Dodgson came before 8 and staid till 9 – read him his lease which he would have signed then but said he had better come again when we have someone from mr. ParKer’s as witness – he mentioned the straw he had bought of Kearton – the rats were eating it, and he could not consume it now – said I had confidence in him that he would farm well, and therefore he might fo as he liKed about the straw – sell it off or not – mentioned having let ParK farm to Greenwood and that he would cover it all with manure, and I had therefore given him leave to agree with PicKersgill for the hay stacK and let it be sold off or not – he thinKs my intended road will not be of much use to Southowram and is evidently against my maKing it – thought it would be better for my land to wind under Bairstow, and open into ParKfarm wellfield –

went into the little room at 9 and sat talKing (or latterly asleep) till 10 – came to my room at 10 5/.. – wrote 1 1/3 page to Captain Sutherland – dated this evening – ‘Dear sir – I am sorry to say I do not thinK miss Walker’s health improving; and the sooner she has first rate medical advice the better- nothing could be more Kind a judicious than mrs. Sutherland’s letter which arrived on Monday; and I am only anxious for you to hasten this journey as much as possible – I see as much of miss walKer as my own engagements will permit; and I am sure you will believe that my anxiety about her is very great – she told me this morning, she could not go on long as she does at present, and seems herself aware that time ought not to be lost – I had fixed to take her to YorK as today, but gave it up in consequence of mrs. Sutherland’s letter – It is desirable to get off from here – no friend could be more Kindly attentive and judicious than miss Rawson who has promised to stay till your arrival; but she is hardly old enough to be left without the assistance of some more experienced person; and I lament that it is not in my power to be constantly with them – I trust mrs. Sutherland will be as little uneasy as possible as I have really great hope that care and sKilful medical treatment will by and by do all that is required – I am anxious, and shall be very glad, to see you, and, with my Kind regards to mrs. Sutherland, believe me, dear sir, very truly yours A Lister’ –

then wrote 1 1/4 page to Dr. B-[Belcombe] dated tomorrow to beg he would desire the druggist to send no more medicine and pay the bill and let me Know the amount that it might be included in the money I should have to remit him – ‘Soon after writing to you last my own ideas on the subject became clearer; and, in the course of a few days, I hope to have resigned my charge into the hands of those whose nearness of connection makes them fittest to take it – But do not notice this – and in the mean time for friendship’s saKe to me, tell me what you thinK I might safely give as a composing draught – she dreads the hours from 12 to 3 at night, and I would gladly give something, if I Knew what, to procure sleep, and Tranquillize the mind’ – my own plans still unfixed as ever – may not be able to get off for some weeKs ..... ‘Ever my dear Steph very truly yours A Lister’ – writing till 12 5/.. – very fine frosty day –

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20 in 20 book tag

Thank you for tagging me, @sophielovesbooks :) time to put my tbr in order.

Rules! Choose 20 books you want to read or goals you want to achieve in 2020. That’s it! It can be a mix of books and goals, or 20 books, or 20 goals…. it’s up to you. Then tag some friends to play along.

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

The Lunar Chronicles

The Farceur Trilogy

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Wicked King by Holly Black

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

The Rosie Result by Graeme Samson

Cari Mora by Thomas Harris

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstory

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

IT by Stephen King

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes

A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs

Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

This was kind of hard actually. I never make lists, I just buy at random (or get gifts). I was racking my brain for 20. But hoping to read most of these this year.

(: Tagging @bookwormmads @book-a-bilia @previouslyafangirl @beem-of-the-books @bookwormlostinwonderland @goodstrongwords

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Monday 21 May 1832

6 ¾

1

fine morning F64° at 10 ½ a.m. – till 10 (undressed) packing – dressed – breakfast at 11 with my aunt as usual in the drawing room – Marian came to us for a few minutes – my father out – did not see him – off from Shibden at 11 50 – 2 or 3 times at H-x, picking up Cameron and off from there at 12 10 – along the Godley road – turned off at Wibsey (2 miles from Bradford) to Leeds, and changed horses there at the hotel – 16 miles of town all the way from H-x to L- all among the flame and smoke of the Shelf, Wibsey Low moor, and Bradford (Bowling) iron foundries – hilly from L- to Harrogate – the great entrance gates to Harewood house about ½ way – 8 miles from Leeds and ditto from Harrogate – a large, front-porticoed, good looking house finely situated on the top of a considerable eminence – in extensive park – Harewood bridge over the Wharf about 6 miles from Harrogate – the shop Inn close to the bridge looked very neat, and comfortable, and sleepable – High Harrogate on a common bleak – drove and alight at 5 to the melancholy Granby – nothing so dull as a public place out of season – off at 5 ¼ in 1 horse phaeton to Knaresbro’ – 3 miles – walked thro’ the grounds to the dropping well, really well worth seeing – the water rises at the top of a detach mass of calcareous rock, and falls down in drops over the face close over the river Nid which here flows in a deep most picturesque beautifully wooded gorge crowned on one side by the town of K- and its finely situated castle of which a picturesque ruin (chiefly of large square tower) remains hanging over the river from the highest height above – wanted to go to the top of the dropping well rock – could not without a ladder and none to be had – yes! but said I it would be easy if you did not so fence off this end – the girl then owned that nobody was allowed to go to the top – and says the water rises quite on the top – not in little pools – merely like soft ground – one can scarce see the rising of the water – birds and nests etc. suspended from the rock under the drip to be petrified a process which requires 12 months – from the well the carriage taking us up at the opposite end of the ground to where we had entered passed under St. Roberts’ cell scooped in the rock (where he lived – up several a great many steps) and went along the little narrow road by the river (a most picturesque, rocky, wooded deep gorge) to very near the bridge over the Nid on the Wetherby road – got out of the carriage and went down into a field close to the river to St. Roberts’ cave where Clarks’ skeleton was found – the entrance about 3ft. by 2 – small cave but communicating the children said by a long passage (about a mile) with the town of K- returned by the Highroad (about 13 miles from K- to Nun Monkton where the Nid flows into the Ouse) and all thro’ the pretty good little country town of K- a grand place and sort of market cross in the middle – stopt 10 minutes to reconnoitre

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the ruins of the castle – the woods of Scriven park close Sir Thomas Slingsby to the town on entering (left) from Harrogate – Mr. Charles Slingsby of Loftus hill, brother to Sir Thomas, near K- died yesterday – the house built by the honourable Mr. Gordon Rugget? or so such name park, never inhabited these 12 years never since Lady Aberdeen’s death and tho’ then quite a new house and very handsome one, now quite a ruin – belongs to the E. of Roslin – drove to Low Harrogate 1 m. – tasted the water at the well close to the crown – very strong of the sulphur – then to the Bogs where all the springs rise – counted about a dozen all a piece of rough common or waste in a very small space – like little wells walled off, and some of them [literally] tubs – tasted the strongest said to be stronger than the well near the crown, but did not perceive much difference – some nice lodging houses all around Low H- particularly what used to be Oddys’ now Woods’ Lodging with very nice garden and grounds (the house rather too close upon the Ripon road) where my aunt and Mrs. Veitch were – Low H- seems more liveable than High H- tho’ the latter is higher and must be better aired and pleasant in summer – drove past the Dragon – a large quite as good looking house as this – more in towny and cheerful and gay and busy I should suppose – the Granby is more apart and dignified and aristocratically triste – but I am very comfortable – very good dinner – veal cutlets, ham, potatoes, broccoli, dressed crab, gooseberry tart, jellies, cream and other cheese and bread and butter all for 3/. and ale 4d. – terms 6d. and lodging 2 ½ guineas and living in private makes 7/. a week difference – private sitting from 3/. to 4/6 a day – livery servants 3/6 out of livery 4/. a day – wax lights 3/. a pair – moulds 3/6 a week – my bill is very reasonable – wax lights only charged 1/. Beds 4/. and servants eating 3/. Phaeton that I had from 5 ¼ to 8 charged 6/. – dinner at 8 ¼ - afterwards settled accounts and wrote the above of today till 10 50 – fine day – cool this evening – F (in my sitting room with fire) 64° now at 11 p.m. – raining now at 1 tonight and for the last ½ hour -

[anne-lister-adventures]

Friday, 10 May 1839

7 1/4

12

Before dressing wrote note to Mr. Waterhouse – Cold East wind as yesterday Fahrenheit 46º inside and 44º outside at 8 3/4 a.m. and breakfast having sent down my note for George to take to ‘John Waterhouse Esquire Well-Head’ purporting that if it suited his convenience and his own views of those of the rest of the Committee, I should be happy to see him on the subject of the temporary cavalry barracks at anytime he might appoint today, tomorrow, or Monday – 

Breakfast over about 9 1/4 Isaac Hemingway having waited a few minutes – A-[Ann] sent for him to say she had heard from Captain and Mrs. Sutherland and he, I.[Isaac] H-[Hemingway], and his father John H-[Hemingway] were to have the stone at 10d. per ft.[foot] – 

Same terms of lease as Bentley of which I read aloud to him the material parts – Average thickness of bed to be taken at 6 ft.[feet] at 10d. = 5/- per yard superior – Rent to commence from 1 July next, and 1st payment to be due 1 January next – 400 yards at 5/- to be paid for per annum – Got or not – And if more got, more paid for – If the bed thinner, to be allowed for – If thicker paid for after the additional rate of 10d. per foot – 

I fancied S.[Samuel] W.[Washington] would not take any notice of any additional thickness that was much under a foot – No! Hemingway thought anything under 6 in.[inches] should not be thought of – But I distinctly said A-[Ann] and I could say nothing on this subject – There would be the lease to go by, and Mr. S.[Samuel] W.[Washington] would do what was right – 

A-[Ann] and I would probably go to Landymere on Monday or Tuesday and take Booth with us to see the 400 yards square plot (term 4 years – To be paid for in 3 years) staked out – 

It might be a few minutes past 10 when A-[Ann] and I went into the North room to Holt whom we had sent for very early this morning about the Rookes coal-loose – No restrictions necessary – Mr. Whiteley could loose no coal but 4 or 5 (H-[Holt] said 5 or 6 before) acres of his own except what belonged to Captain and Mrs. S-[Sutherland] and that H-[Holt] said before would have to be loosed by an engine – 

The coal lies differently there from here – Rises towards the East – But still on shewing H-[Holt] the plan he seemed to shew the general dip as from West to East – There is a throw-down that prevents W-[Whiteley] getting any more than 4 to 6 acres except what belongs to the S-s[Sutherlands] which H-[Holt] repeated (as he said before) should be let at £150 per acre to W-[Whiteley] if he applied  for it – The S-s[Sutherlands] should have a power to send down their agents to inspect W-s[Whiteley’s] works whenever they (the S-s[Sutherlands]) thought fit – 

H-[Holt] would let W-[Whiteley] have the loose for as long as he wanted it – could get about an acre in a year – The loose is an old level that has been driven which W-[Whiteley] ought to have the power of cleaning out – Suppose limited to get the coal under such and such ground – Hemmed in by the S-s[Sutherlands] – And the ground on the upper side, Priestley Green &c. not belonging to the S-s[Sutherlands], has no coal – It breaks out there – Loose to be £10 a year to be paid from the time of signing the agreement – 

An application from A-‘s[Ann’s] Bouldshaw tenants, Messers Holmes and Co., to Captain and Mrs. S-[Sutherland] thro’ Holt for the engine coal in the 2 little fields adjoining the road (from 2 to 3 acres of coal) – Would give £130 per acre – Holt thought full as much as it was worth more than he should like to give for it himself – 

On Holt’s going A-[Ann] had Mr. Parker respecting her Navigation stock – 4 shares sold at £434 each the purchaser taking the dividend due at midsummer = 4 x 9 = £36. A-[Ann] signed away the 4 shares to Messers…. Tew and Co. bankers Wakefield – the money to be paid to P-[Parker] and A-[Adam] on Monday or Tuesday next £600 of it to be paid immediately to Marian for Lee Lane; and as to the rest A-[Ann] would write word what she would have done with it – 

Gave P-[Parker] Hinscliffe’s coal lease with instructions for the new  agreement – P-[Parker] seemed to think it could not be safely done by Memorandum – Nor Holt nor Hinscliffe can possibly tell how much can be got – But H-[Holt] thinks the quantity cannot exceed 1 1/2 acres – The agreement limited to what is under the road, the 23 perches of plantation and the 3 acres + of the one field called Flashes lying alongside the Crownest carriage road – 

Mr. Crossland wants a copy of his lease – Gave Mr. P-[Parker] the lease back with him to be copied and then returned immediately – This led to the mention of the temporary cavalry-stables – P-[Parker] said they could not raise the money – I said the stables should be on the reserved ground and might extend, if required along the top of St. Anne’s Street – Just put my finger on the the narrow out-of-line Street on Mr. Day’s plan, as if merely done to light Mr. Abbot’s cottages – 

Then miscellaneous talk about the resignation Ministers &c. the bringing in Lord Pollington &c. &c. Robson in London the great man of business of the Mexbroughs – Not much done here – 

Had proposed before A-[Ann] left us (perhaps about 11 1/2 or later?) the giving Messers P-[Parker] and A-[Adam] £50 a year for their Agency for us both; and said they would be better paid than P-[Parker] would be for going over to N.[North] Cave (to see Miss Marian about the Lee Lane title deeds) 2 days away and expense for four guineas – A deputation would cost her six guineas – She had best come over – 

I said they P-[Parker] and A-[Adam] would have nothing to do for A-[Ann] and me but be receive the rents and be responsible for them, and for all payments to Booth – To give notices to quit, and to let free of expense – To do, in at the £50 per annum; what law stewards usually did but to be paid for all extra law work – But would by and by given clear written directions – Mr. P-[Parker] staid till 12 10/’’ then till 12 55/’’ wrote all but the 1st line of today – Then till 1 10/’’ wrote as follows to Marian to go tonight –

“Shibden Hall – Friday 10 May 1839.

My dear Marian –

Mr. Parker has just been here, and said he had a 1/2 written letter which he meant to send you by this evening’s post – We told him to inform you, that the money would be ready for you any day after the fifteenth – He said the deeds could not possibly be ready – Miss Walker will make no difficulty about this – It will be a great convenience to you to have the money; and you had best take the opportunity – 

It seems, a deputation (respecting the copyhold) would cost you six guineas; and Mr. Parker’s going over, he told us, should be charged four guineas – Little enough for his 2 days of time and travelling expense – Your best plan would be, to come over as soon as you can – 

Answer Mr. Parker’s letter by instructing him to get on with the deeds as fast as he can, adding that you intend to be here on the fifteenth (Wednesday next), and will then settle everything – 

Do not hesitate – We can take in your maid without any trouble – Put posters to your carriage, and be here by seven in the evening, to dinner – 

I forgot to mention Robert Geoffrey in my last letter, and to ask you to let him know, that, on consideration, I thought it best to give up all thought of his coming here – 

Miss Walker is out – But I am sure I may send her love – Affectionately yours A L-[Lister]

You must count upon being here a few days; for your business cannot be done in less time – You will be awakened early in the morning by workmen, but will not, I trust, be subject to any other inconvenience” –

All the above just filled 2 pp.[pages] – had written so far at 1 25/’’ – 

A-[Ann] returned a few minutes ago, or, at least, I have heard her bell ring – with A-[Ann] read her my letter to Marian and wrote her copy of what she ought to write to Marian and of what she ought to write to Mr. Washington with Bentleys sstone lease to be copied by him for the two Hemingways        as desired by Mrs. Sutherland – 

1/4 hour at luncheon – I took a little cold roast roll of beef and then hot gingerbread which A-[Ann] said she enjoyed – She seems better today – She has Mr. Horner this afternoon, and is just gone to him now at 2 3/4 – 

Then went out to Robert Mann and William Lord and Ben and Thomas Sharpe filling carts (my own 2 horses – the 3d.[3rd] in the stable) with clay from the Laundry court road to near the glen bridge – Ordered the third horse out, and the clay to be carried on the top of the embankment between the back Lodge gates and the rock bridge – With Robert Mann there levelling after the carts till 5 – 

Then a little while at Listerwick saw Holt and Joseph Mann on their return from Hannah Walker’s – They went to set out the 300 yards of ground A-[Ann] is to have alongside the Crownest carriage road – Nothing set out – 

H.[Hannah] W.[Walker] wished all to remain as it is till after hay time she will then oblige Miss Walker who is to have what she wants whether she, H.[Hannah] W.[Walker], sells the coal or not – 

Told Holt to write again for the engine bill from Low Moor – Back with Robert Mann on the embankment just before 6 – then with him about explaining what I wished to be done – Told him I had made up my mind not to hire a gardener at present, but would take him R.[Robert] M.[Mann] at £50 per annum till his banks-man’s place at Listerwick was ready for him – Said Holt had told me, it would be a year first – R.[Robert] M.[Mann] very well satisfied – Said he would do anything – He would do the best he could – Said I wished the horses to earn their keep – He must talk things over with Booth – 

I should appoint to pay and to do what I myself did when at home – I hoped all would go on well – Robert to advise B-[Booth] about the colliery and to write to me this to the care of Messers Hammersley’s if he thought proper – With Robert the joiner and Mrs. Lee a little while – 

Then with A-[Ann] dressed – dinner at 7 20/’’ – A-[Ann] read French (in the North parlour) coffee – Read the newspaper and then wrote the last 19 1/2 lines till now 9 25/’’ – Then sat talking to A-[Ann] till came upstairs at 10 40/’’ fine but dull day and cold East wind as yesterday Fahrenheit 44º inside and 36º outside at 10 3/4 p.m. – then at accounts (making up rough book) till 11 20/’’ –

[symbols in the margin of the page:] N         ✓

[in the margin of the page:]   Stone let by A-[Ann] to the 2 Hemingways

[in the margin of the page:]   Rooke’s coal loose

[in the margin of the page:]   vide p.[page] 78.

[in the margin of the page:]   Sutherland Rookes coal £150 per acre

[in the margin of the page:]   Sutherland Engine coal £130 per acre

[in the margin of the page:]   A-[Ann] signs away 4 Navigation shares

[in the margin of the page:]   A-‘s[Ann’s] new coal lease to Hinscliffe

[in the margin of the page:]   will give R.[Robert] M.[Mann] £50

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Things Sasha Learned From Her Dog Winston During The Pandemic by Marian L Thomas

Things Sasha Learned From Her Dog Winston During The Pandemic by Marian L Thomas

Things Sasha Learned From Her Dog Winston During The Pandemic by Marian L Thomas. Sasha is a beautiful brown-eyed young girl with an amazing dog named Winston. By watching him over the years, Sasha discovers that there is so much that she can learn from Winston, including how to overcome the fear of wearing a mask, how to have fun with friends using the Internet, and the importance of washing her…

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