{"id":515,"date":"2005-09-03T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=515"},"modified":"2005-09-03T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T01:16:00","slug":"the-text-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"The text wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of the latest History Carnival reminds me of a <a href=\"http:\/\/caelestis.info\/sauvagenoble\/2005\/07\/lsa-pause-opera-desiderata.html\">meme<\/a> I was trying to promote, but haven&#8217;t actually got around to completing myself.<\/p>\n<p>So, five texts that I wish had survived but apparently haven&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<p>1.  The complete works of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journ.freeserve.co.uk\/women\/women1.html\">Isabella Whitney<\/a>, the first poet of London. (Which I suspect must include a significant number of anonymously published ballads, and possibly more books &#8211; given that the two we know of survived only in one copy.)<\/p>\n<p>2. The complete works of <a href=\"http:\/\/philobiblion.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/going-back-1600-years-from-my-last.html\">Sappho<\/a> &#8211; well of course: one has to include the mother of poetry. (The  &#8220;newest&#8221; poem is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/this_week\/story.aspx?story_id=2111206\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>3. The memoirs of <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/heliogabby\/deipnon\/deipnon3.htm\">Phryne, courtesan of Thebes<\/a>. (What a read that would be.)<\/p>\n<p>4. The private diary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninworldhistory.com\/heroine6.html\">Empress Wu<\/a> &#8211; the only woman to ever rule China in her own right. (And her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnhomestay.com\/city\/xian\/qianling.htm\">tomb<\/a> has yet to be excavated.)<\/p>\n<p>5. The private memoirs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptologyonline.com\/hatshepsut.htm\">Pharaoh Hatshepsut<\/a>, her compatriot in ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>(Well OK, the last two probably never existed, but they should have.)<\/p>\n<p>Please, compile your own list (including plenty of women, of course) and leave the link in the comments here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of the latest History Carnival reminds me of a meme I was trying to promote, but haven&#8217;t actually got around to completing myself. So, five texts that I wish had survived but apparently haven&#8217;t: 1. The complete works of Isabella Whitney, the first poet of London. (Which I suspect must include a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}