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A footnote in Lucy Worsley's A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession. This is in the chapter about Dorothy L. Sayers:

* To hear Gaudy Night written off as the. Rigid Julian Symons does in Bloody Murder (1972) is not unusual, but it remains infuriating. When I read the page where he states that 'Gaudy Night is essentially a "woman's novel" full of the most tedious pseudo-serious chat between the characters that goes on for page after page', I threw Mr Symon's book on the floor, and stamped upon it.

(And boo to Apple's autocorrect, which suggested "woman's snivel" when I had typed "woman's novel" CORRECTLY.)

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Correction

The quote in my earlier post should read "the critic Julian Symons," not "the. Rigid Julian Symons," however apropos that may be. (Not editing it at the moment because I,m on my iPad and my password is a string of spaghetti that is difficult to type in on a real computer, much less a portable tablet, so I'm sticking with emailing posts.)

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My first hank!

The results of my first attempt at spinning! This was with a drop spindle. I sat at a spinning wheel and treadled it for a good long while to get the feel, but we went to the spindle to get started on actual spinning. The two women at the weaver's guild shop--there was an open class time but I was the only student who showed up--gave me a good lecture on their wheels and their techniques as well.


They were very complimentary towards my efforts and praised my joins, and when Mom wandered back in from the clothing shop in the same strip center that she'd gone to browse in, they chorused "She's a spinner!"

It'll still be a while before I produce anything nice, but I've learned the basics, and have been assured that I will now understand what people on YouTube spinning videos are talking about. I can spend a while spinning on the drop spindle and see if I want to save up for an actual wheel and learn that.

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