I haven’t previously felt there were enough specifically women’s history blogs around to make that a category in my blogroll, but I’m starting to think that it is time for a re-arrangement, having just found two new must-reads, both by women well known as writers.
Mary Beard, the Cambridge classicist and author of many books on Ancient Rome
is blogging at The Times. Unlike so many people coming to blogging when already well known for other things, she really gets the medium and the message – there’s some great stuff there, everything from an assertion, based on some actual evidence (unlike so much written on this subject), that students a century go were not in fact any more skilled than those of today, to a very honest account of her “take”, not very large, from the public lending right.
Staying on the ancient side, the great queen Zenobia now has a blog, through the hand of Judith Weingarten, author of The Chronical of Zenobia, which I’ve reviewed. In progress now, a series of profiles of the “four Julias”, some of Rome’s most powerful women, and contemporaries of Zenobia.
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