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@heroinebook

Unrepentant bookworm/journalist/historian/lay librarian etc. Author, THE HEROINE'S BOOKSHELF.

Boulder, CO
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Joined May 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Mar 2014

    Good morning, heroines and heroes of the literary world. This is your daily reminder that writing is hard. And raw. And worth it.

    9 replies 74 retweets 279 likes
  2. 10 hours ago

    So...I realized recently that the plot of THE KING AND I is essentially that the King doesn't like what a woman says, THEN MOPES TO DEATH

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  3. 12 hours ago
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    Bee heaven sage

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  4. 12 hours ago

    Mysteriously complicated butterfly bush

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  5. 17 hours ago
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    Yes, the immortal Jane was a home brewer, packed her books with boozy references, and made a mean spruce beer.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    In case you're in need of neat Jane Austen facts for Tuesday, read my latest

    1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
  7. Retweeted
    Jul 15

    Maggie Walker led a boycott of Richmond's trolley system after the company segregated the cars. It went bankrupt

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  8. 18 hours ago

    OMG I JUST LEARNED MY COUSIN WAS THE FIRST PHARMACIST IN THE US TO PRESCRIBE BIRTH CONTROL 😍

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  9. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    I've never seen an episode of Doctor Who but tbh I am 100 percent here for anything that sends dudes into an apoplectic nerd rage

    24 replies 183 retweets 924 likes
  10. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    in 1862, Journalist Ida B. Wells was born. Learn more about her crusade against lynching:

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  11. Jul 15

    Dying before I have said everything I need to say is one of my deepest fears.

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    Jul 15
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    Also the Brontës

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  13. Jul 15
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    It's okay! We can use our imaginations—and the profuse number of actual descriptions of the Brontës! Let's content ourselves with that.

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  14. Jul 15
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    Best to stick to images we KNOW are self-portraits

    1 reply 1 like
  15. Jul 15
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    Meanwhile, even attempts to ID doodles of Charlotte's as groundbreaking "self portraits" are iffy and pointless

    2 replies 1 like
  16. Jul 15
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    The likelihood of a photo or new portrait of already well-documented sisters who died young and lived 99% of their lives in obscurity is low

    1 reply 1 like
  17. Jul 15
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    Or this one, which is even more obviously not them

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  18. Jul 15
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    See also: This photo, which people have spent fruitless years trying to prove is the sisters

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  19. Jul 15
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    To me the bigger question is "why are we obsessed with finding images of the Brontës that obviously don't exist"

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  20. Jul 15
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    This attracted a lot of attention in 2012 and seems no more legitimate now. Frenzied comments from Bronte folk here

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  21. Jul 15
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    Furthermore, "Landseer went to Yorkshire once" is a tenuous connection at best.

    1 reply 1 like

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