the feminist librarian

James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) Welcome to another installment of live-blogging  Masterpiece  with Minerva , Hanna and Anna, at the parti...

Thanks to a recent issue of Education Revolution E-News , I was alerted to the existence of the Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learn...

Dad suggested I share these pictures from a bike ride we took together around Loch Katrine in The Trossachs, Scotland on May 2004. It was a...

Last week, I offered up one of my favorite one-shots by Miss Lucy Jane. This week, we're returning to Miss Lucy Jane for a five-part wo...

by daisukikawaii   As predicted, things are a bit scattered this week and blogging time is thin on the ground. But somehow conversation a...

So here we are at the last live-blog for "Downton Abbey," Season One. You can read the snark (you know you want to!) in full over...

Jenny Diski's slim contribution to the series BIG IDEAS // small books  (Macmillan Press) is a historically-minded memoir of The Sixties...

It's a busy day at work today, folks, and I don't have time for an elaborate introduction / cross-post. Though I will say two thing...

The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm , by Juliet Nicolson (New York: Grove, 2006) reads like a cross between a gossip col...

Lady Mary prepares to be unwise in her flirtations. Following up last week's live-blog of the first episode of Masterpiece Theater...

Hanna and I, along with our friend Minerva , watched the first episode of Masterpiece Theater's " Downton Abbey " last night ...

I picked up an advance review copy of Robert Sackville-West's family history  Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles (New Y...

As I'm writing this it's Friday night of a really long, long week ... the penultimate week of my semester in which all my projects w...