Beverley Adams Ada Lovelace The World’s First Computer Programmer Pen & Sword History 2023. This is the second of Beverly Adams’ biographies that I have read. Once again I am impressed with the way in which Adams has assembled her material to advance an enlightening and plausible account of a woman for whom there isContinue reading “Week beginning 29 March 2023”
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Week beginning 22 March 2023
Carolyn Purnell Blue Jeans Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you, NetGalley and Bloomsbury Press, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Blue Jeans is another wonderful addition to the Object Lessons series. Carolyn Purnell brings the reader into a world that comprises the horrors of indigo production for the beloved blue jeans, the politicalContinue reading “Week beginning 22 March 2023”
Week beginning 15 March 2023
This week I review Before Mrs Beeton Elizabeth Raffald by Neil Buttery. Neil Buttery, Before Mrs Beeton Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper, Pen & Sword, Pen & Sword History 2023. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Before Mrs Beeton Elizabeth Raffald is another of PenContinue reading “Week beginning 15 March 2023”
Week beginning 8 March 2023
International Women’s Day International Women’s Day March 8 is an appropriate time to review How to Think Like a Woman Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, a book that recognises the way in which her own and her subjects’ domestic lives impacted on acceptance of their roleContinue reading “Week beginning 8 March 2023”
Week beginning March 1, 2023
This week I review a heartbreaking novel by Liz Nugent – an author I have not previously read. I also alert readers to the two-part novel by Rob Wills that I shall review at a later date. Liz Nugent Strange Sally Diamond Penguin General UK – Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business, Sandycove,Continue reading “Week beginning March 1, 2023”
Robin's Room 