Lesley A Hall Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@vicky_ig Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 worth looking at!

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@Sotherans The extremely dodgy owner of the Watford University Press, which had published Havelock Ellis's 'Sexual Inversion' in 1897, was discovered in a police raid to have a stash of 1000s of copies, after the book was the subject of an obscenity prosecution in 1898

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A book called The Curious Lobster, which I never later came across, read out on Friday afternoons by Miss Jarvis to the top (i.e. oldest - also physically highest up in the building!) class in our primary school https://t.co/Cdh0JNWOfA

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Does that even sound like Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and giver of famous courtroom speech on The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name?

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@drkatelaw @BrackeAnne @carorusterholz @tortietabby It's possible that there might be something in M Connelly, Fatal misconception : the struggle to control world population (2008) - he did extensive work in IPPF archives. Otherwise various publications and ephemera scattered in misc collections at Wellcome might have this

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@FernRiddell Recommended article (more Wilkie Collins!): Valint, Alexandra. “‘Man and Machinery Blended in One’: Dexter’s Wheelchair and the Victorian Railway in Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 43, no. 2, 2021, pp. 131–48, https://t.co/OAo4PN1z0u.

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Apparently today is International Day Of Women And Girls In Science? #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience Have my blogpost about Janet Vaughan and Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own https://t.co/8WaY3sj0aC

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Does that even sound like Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and giver of famous courtroom speech on The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name?

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@FernRiddell Mentions that Wilkie Collins featured deaf (Hide and Seek), blind (Poor Miss Finch), and wheelchair bound (The Law and the Lady) people in his books (prob ably others besides these) both as heroes and villains - though more for general attitudes rather than travel

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@Wordweaverlynn @WomensHistNet Probably! It also features quite heavily - understandably - in EM Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady and The PL Goes Further. The PL enters the competitions and has some aspirations to write for it.