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March 2024

Quietly Moving the Earth-Women in the Garden-Caroline Seymour Severance (1820-1914)
Women's History Month
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Quietly Moving the Earth-Women in the Garden #5-Gertrude Jekyll (1840-1932) "the Fat and the Grumbly"
Oh, my, what a comment describing the one and only, Aunt Bumps. Vita Sackville-West met Gertrude Jekyll, in her later years, and described her thus, and…
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Quietly Moving the Earth-Women in the Garden-Beatrix Farrand, (1872-1959)
Women's History Month
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Quietly Moving the Earth-Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962)
Women's History Month
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Quietly Moving the Earth-Hildegard von Bingen
Women in the Garden-Women's History Month
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February 2024

More Pearls, Please
From the Yorkshire Trip
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Warriors and Heroes-Leaders and Thugs and the Rapacious Wrath of Clytemnestra
A Current Commentary
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Portraits and Pictures
A Travel Entry
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Race-Passing-Bias-A Date on a Winter's Day-40 Minutes Home in Light Traffic
One of great dividends of time without a formal schedule is that everyday is Saturday. Some dreams do come true. I dreamed of this life, full but…
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Bess of Hardwick 1527-1608, A Woman Who Knew When to Play Her Card in the Tudor Court
In portraits, Bess looks powerful. She typically appears forward-facing with her head slightly turned to the side and dressed in rich velvet textiles…
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