Re: Historical Fiction

[MARION SNELL <marions@HOME.COM>]

What a good point!  That would be analogous to all those librarians out
there that are only interested in having all the books in the library
and in perfect order.  The ones you've never met, but every
administrator believes in.

BSAllen wrote:
>
> I've been following this thread with great interest.  Yesterday, Maureen Irwin
> said
> "However, the author did raise an
> excellent point, and I found myself questioning the behavior of Mozart's
> wife in Amadeus over the weekend.  She bullied her father-in-law, and
> took Mozart's original compositions to Salieri for him to evaluate without
> her husband's knowledge.  My college-age daughter and I agreed neither of
> these were likely to have been possible."
> I presented this to my college age son and he brought up Joan of Arc.  The
> question of how people thought and how less than famous people acted in the
> past has been presented to us through the predominately male eyes of the time.
> I don't think we can make assumptions about how less than famous women thought
> and acted.  When I was a small child and had just been to the local historical
> society and seen an incredible side saddle, I was talking to a very old woman
> who had lived in the west all of her life.  I said something about how
> difficult it must have been to ride sidesaddle and always wear a skirt.  Her
> response was something like
> "Nonsense.  Real women rode astride wearing pants.  Don't believe everything
> they tell you at the historical society."
>
> Barbara Allen
> Program Analyst / Library Services
> Tucson Unified School District
> Tucson, AZ
> bsallen@aol.com
>
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