#Frances wright

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We have seen throughout this book that women's autonomy had to be hard won before creativity could flourish. The cultural context for women's creativity was quite different from that of men. The absence of heroines and of Women's History crippled even the most talented women or deflected their talents into less ambitious or shorter forms: poems rather than drama cycles; letters and journals rather than works of philosophy. The social embarrassment connected with female authorship and publication created enormous tensions in women of talent, whose gifts, to be fully realized, demanded ambition, long-range goal-setting and a desire for fame. The social definitions of "femininity" and the unending familial obligations imposed on women made concentrated attention to professional writing difficult if not impossible for most women. Up until the middle of the 19th century it is rare to find a female writer who did not have to pay for her intellectual productivity with a distorted and unhappy life. Whether women had to forgo their sexual lives in order to have leisure and permission to think, imagine and create, whether they had to abandon marriage and motherhood in order to be free to concentrate on themselves and their intellectual product—they faced more obstacles than did their brothers in the pursuit of similar aims.

Beginning with Aphra Behn, there were also some women who defied societal taboos and led liberated or at least unconventional lives. They paid a heavy price for whatever happiness they derived from their lifestyles, and in a number of cases their work was repressed or denied a reading public because of the scandal they created. Mary Wollstonecraft is the best known example of this pattern: she was a writer reaching a wide reading public when, after her early death in childbirth, her life became a scandal. This was due to her husband's decision to publish a memoir of her life and a collection of her letters to her lover which made it apparent that she had had an illegitimate child and lived with two men outside of marriage. Thereafter, her life was paraded as an example of debauchery and of the linkage between feminism and deviance. This kind of attack on her was made all through the 19th century and was still being printed in the 1950s. It undoubtedly discouraged other women from having access to her work and from taking it seriously.

Frances Wright, a radical Scotswoman living in the United States in the 1820s and 30s, who was a follower of Robert Dale Owen and who formed a utopian colony of her own, was slandered in press and pulpit and lost most of her influence because of her advocacy of sexual freedom and racial intermarriage. Her name became an epithet, actually; to be a "Fanny Wrightist" was to be a deviant. These are just two examples of many others that could be cited from different countries. Women's lives and women's work were constantly in tension with patriarchal gender definitions.

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

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Pink Floyd backstage before their concert in Lyon (Palais des Sports, Lyon), France. 12 June 1971. © Philippe Gras

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France 🇫🇷

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Wes Anderson Movies + textpost part 5/11 (or until I give up)

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Closing night for Cast 14 of the Oasis of the Seas was yesterday (08 April 2024), after performing since August 2023, ending with a two show day!

Backstage during the last two shows.

Jackey Good as Jellylorum and Alice Rimmer as Cassandra.

Martha-Frances Henry as Grizabella and Robert Wilkes as Asparagus.

Joe Hewitt as Alonzo and Jamie Armour as Pouncival.

Matthew Tratch as Tumblebrutus, Joe Hewitt as Alonzo, Charlotte Lovell as Victoria, Dena Philpott as Tantomile, Robert Wilkes as Asparagus, Thomas Alsop as Skimbleshanks, Samuel Lewis-Wright as Mungojerrie, Ben Reynolds as Munkustrap, Jamie Armour as Pouncival, and Daniel Chesnut as Mistoffelees.

A few past performance photos mixed with performance and bows from yesterday.

One last White Cat Day for Charlotte Lovell as Victoria, before Gina Gagliano (who filmed the above) takes over.

An Invitation with Adam Hearn as Coricopat, Dena Philpott as Tantomile, Daniel Chesnut as Mistoffelees, and Rina Punwani as Rumpleteazer.

Jaime Mollineaux as Jennyanydots, with Ben Reynolds as Munkustrap, Helen Turner as Demeter, Charlotte Reavey as Bombalurina, and Jackey Good as Jellylorum.

The Jellicle Ball, with Jamie Armour as Pouncival, Adam Hearn as Coricopat, and Charlotte Lovell as Victoria.

The last Ad-Dressing for everyone.

Gabriela Rodriguez as Sillabub take a bow, filmed by Josie Harbertson who is taking over the role.

Joe Hewitt as Alonzo gets a leg up.

Thomas Alsop as Skimbleshanks for one last celebration.

A group of celebrations for good friends in the cast.

Rina Punwani as Rumpleteazer and partner across two Casts, Samuel Lewis-Wright as Mungojerrie.

And one for DevinRe Lewis Adams as Rum Tum Tugger, who was with Rina also across two Casts.

Dena Philpott as Tantomile wishes off Adam Hearn as Coricopat, and Domenico Ramelli, an alumni of past Casts, wishes some Kitties a happy closing night.

Happy Trails to everyone!

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Pink Floyd and Jeanne Moreau at Abbaye de Royaumont, France, in 1971

Photo by O Gökşin Sipahioğlu

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Cyrano (2021) Director: Joe Wright

“It's you, my love.” “You love the words.” “No, you. I love Cyrano. Cyrano is my love! I've always loved Cyrano...”

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gaslight gatekeep girlboss

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The French Dispatch (2021) Wes Anderson

May 12th 2024

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The French Dispatch (2021, Wes Anderson)

07/12/2024

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Aviator Wilbur Wright in Le Mans, Maine region of France

French vintage postcard

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Pink Floyd - Premier ballet classique Roland Petit. (salutations sur scène dans une chaîne) Salle Vallier, Marseille France, 22 - 26 November 1972. Photos: Fernand Michaud/Jean-Claude Deutsch.

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Stage winner Matej Mohorič of Slovenia & Fred Wright of Great Britain and Bahrain Victorious during the 110th Tour de France 2023, Stage 19 a 172.8km stage from Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny on July 21, 2023 in Poligny, France. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

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Bee, the Princess of the Dwarfs by Anatole France retold in english by Peter Wright

Artist : Charles Robinson

1920

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