Hi, everyone!
Magnolia, Sunflower, thank you for letting me know about Modigliani and the site of Bleak House. What a fantastic, knowledgeable place we have!
As Peach mentioned, I also have a lot of books and materials to read for Victorian studies or the Meiji era’s women’s liberation. I didn’t know about ‘the Victorian age’ at all until three months ago, but since learning started, I have gradually noticed that several signs(?) in my surroundings.
For example, the other day, when I watched a TV program about Ann of green gables in English, a commentator introduced us a portrait of Queen Victoria on the wall at the author’s school in Canada. I once read Canada became part of the British Empire in 1850s, and Lucy M. Montgomery was born in 1874. And as another example, I found an article with a word 'Victorian-style’ in a novel I am now reading. I didn’t realize the popularity of that age. I feel myself just like an elementary school’s girl…
Of course I say this in a good sense.
So, see you tomorrow, good bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
I hope all of you are having a fascinating Monday evening.
This morning Peach came to my place to discuss her essay with me, and we had an enormously intriguing talk about the birth of Masa Nakayama and her personality.
I am not certain whether Peach has already discussed Masa’s birth in this blog, but the author of the book about the founder of Kassui Girls’ School states that Masa was born between an Englishman and a Japanese woman, who is normally described as her mother’s younger sister. This is the most recent reference to the birth of Masa and all the other documents assert that she was born into a Japanese married couple, but her mother died soon after delivery of Masa. Her father, whose name is known but profession is not clarified, could not raise Masa, since he was a “man”, and so her younger sister adopted Masa and raised her with abundant motherly love and Masa also loved and respected her as mother.
Nonetheless lack of information, or maybe no knowledge at all, as to her father did not harm her later life.
Masa was a talented person full of vitality and survival wisdom. Moreover, she was practical, efficient, and insightful as well as fast-moving. It seems that she developed her vitality and survival wisdom in her living environment; a life with her aunt, which was a fatherless and sibling-less home life, to say nothing of a motherless life. She had to create and try every tactics to make her life worthwhile, I suppose. But I may be wrong. She might have been just like that by nature...
Anyway, Peach’s essay is getting better, and I am awfully happy about it. We also talked about how to increase our vocaburary, didn’t we, Peach? Do you still remember compelling, enticing, enchanting, intriguing and irresistible?
She left, probably at around 3:30, but I am not sure. She looked quite confident when she left my place, and I was tremendously happy about it.
Well, my husband is coming home soon, and I have to prepare supper for him, my dear friends. Talk to you tomorrow. Have fun and be happy. Night, night.
Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
It’s May 12. It was a cool day with an invigorating air. I read an article of Josephine Butler in the afternoon.
Josephine’s great work could not have been done without an unstinting support George gave to her.
There seems to be always an eminent husband behind a distinguished woman. Josephine Butler’s case was no exception.
She also had ears to listen to God whether He was truly calling her to action.
In polite society in the 19th century, prostitution was never talked about. It would be indecent for a man let alone a respectable woman to talk about prostitution. Josephine and George had great courage to keep doing this campaign.
The Government main concerns were to have soldiers be free from venereal disease (VD).
It makes me angry because Government wanted to give the hygienic condition of prostitutes to soldiers.
In order to prevent soldiers from VD, the compulsory examination was practiced ONLY women under the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Women had to have a very brutal examination. The same examination had been practiced in Japan.
It's time to go to bed. Good-night, my precious friends.
Hi, everyone
It is May 13th. It is such a lovely day. What I have written in the blog was gone because of my carelessness. I collected myself and try to write again.
Yesterday I visited Plum's. I am attracted with her variety of learning skills which is surely effective and enjoyable. I really had a meaningful wonderful time thanks to Plum's broader generous affectionate insight toward everything.
Building a vocaburary takes time, but step by step, I'd like to do my best.
As Plum mentioned Masa Nakayama's mysterious birth which had prevented me from writing, did not affected her marvelous career. Having father unknown, Masa led a positive reasonable life and devoted herself in politics. She always remembered the minorities such as single mothers and Koreans who were not able to go back to Korea after the Pacific War because of the broken diplomatic relations and had to live in Japan in poverty. She did what she could do as a politician. She seemed to realize her dream all the more she was elected as a politician.
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