Writing Life Archives

Writing, Genealogy and Serendipity: Permelia

“I saw a photo once,” my 91-year-old grandmother said, “of three girls in an oval frame. They had red tinted…
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How to know when you finished researching and it’s time to write?

Can you pinpoint a moment in your life when everything changed? You wouldn’t have recognized it at the time. But…
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I spent my twenty-first birthday in the University Research Library writing a paper on King Lear. It was the Friday…
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When is it research and when is it voyeurism? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself. I’ve been reading diaries…
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Have you ever been house touring? We’ve always enjoyed the scene in A&E’s Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth Bennett tours…
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