After her husband died in 1952, she continued her work in ophthalmology, researching the prevalence of eye disease (especially trachoma) in indigenous populations, and speaking at World Health Organization conferences in many places throughout the world. She was a world-famous ophthalmologist, born in 1893 in England, who had already reached the peak of her research career when she emigrated to Australia with her husband Profession William Guy, an acclaimed cancer research in 1949. If you’re wondering ‘Who is Ida Mann?’, you’re not alone. Published in 1986, it’s very much a product of an earlier time, drawing on fairly pragmatic and workmanlike ideas of autobiography, and expressing attitudes for which Ida Mann would be condemned today (and indeed, in the 1980s as well). And having finished the book now, there’s probably a good reason why this book has not been particularly popular. But what a smell ! the books had obviously been unread for a very long time (probably pre-dating COVID) and they were very musty. Our face-to-face book went into hibernation during the lockdown throughout 2020, so when received our most recent read, The Chase, an autobiography by Ida Mann, we opened the box with anticipation. So they reframed their identities as “mothers of the nation”, and used the education they had gained from the colleges that had opened since the war to present evidence of the working/living conditions of women. THE PRIZE 1963 SUBTITULOS SERIESHeather Cox Richardson took a week off from her ‘Reconstruction’ series of podcasts because Trump’s second impeachment was being debated, but she returned on February 19 to discuss the way that women, after the war, found themselves sidelined after the 14th Amendment the the Minor v Happersett decision. It also examines other events of the time: the Beatles, Profumo, the Cuban Missile Crisis etc. Written prior to this current lockdown, it tells of a different sort of lockdown with any similarities – transport paralysis, public events cancelled, schools closed etc. The author Juliet Nicolson looks at this period in her book Frostquake. Between Boxing Day 1962 and the first week of March 1963 – three months!!!!– England was plunged into freezing temperatures. This episode 1962:London’s Big Freeze was really good, and it has spurred me to buy (yes, buy!) the book. Wells’ The Invisible Man book and subsequent movie, and ending up with Siri and Alexa and other disembodied female voices. It’s a wide-ranging podcast, starting with the gimmicky ‘Invisible Lady’ who was put on display in New York in 1804, moving to Emily Dickenson (“I’m nobody, Who are You?….”), the Warren and Bradeis Right to Privacy doctrine, H.G. I thought of the disembodied women when listening to Jill Lepore’s The Invisible Lady episode. Of course, she wasn’t as she is an automatic recording, scheduled fifteen and then one minute before the train arrived. Yesterday I was sitting at the railway station with my 5 year old granddaughter, and she asked if the lady making the announcements was actually in the railway station. Although Roosevelt didn’t really know what he was going to do, he knew that he had to do something and he surrounded himself with experts. His initial bill to stop the run on the banks was passed quickly and set him up for further success, much as a successful vaccination program would do for Biden. Unlike Biden, Roosevelt had sizeable majorities in both houses, and although he didn’t get everything he wanted, there was more willingness to cross party lines to pass legislation. Rear Vision (ABC) Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first 100 days have been referenced several times by Joe Biden.
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