A week or two ago I mentioned reading Pride and Prejudice on Project Gutenberg. The particular edition that was up on that site had adorable illustrations and illuminated capitals done by an artist named Hugh Thomson. I went looking and discovered that Thomson had illustrated several other books, including one called Highways and Byways in [...]
Catholic scientists, a list of women
I started working on lists of Catholic scientists twenty-five years ago. My father, a Catholic scientist himself, had commented for years on people who shared that faith. The worldly belief that you can't be both was strong, even sixty years ago. In 2016 a Society of Catholic Scientists was founded. I had heard of it [...]
Links to share – August 16
My brain is still processing my current novel. At a crucial moment I have a whole set of incidents that are not in the proper order, so that’s where my analytic energies are concentrated. So a few links today to articles I enjoyed reading... First up, an article from Suburban Banshee. https://suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/our-lady-makes-a-joke/ This post contains [...]
August accomplishments
Cooking … The red Bing cherries I remember from my childhood don’t seem to be around anymore. The yellow and red Rainier cherries taste much better than most red cherries I’ve had recently, but I keep being suckered, thinking that I’m just buying cherries at the wrong moment, too early or too late. Well… I [...]
Illustrations from Pride and Prejudice
No power this morning for a bit. No power yesterday afternoon. We are having a lot of rain, and random wind, and tornadoes in the area. In between times everything is green and light, but not sunny. I found a gem on Project Gutenberg, an illustrated version of Pride and Prejudice. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-images.html It was published [...]
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