Thursday's Notes
Emily Hodgson Anderson,"Who were the Bluestockings?" TLS, 25 August, reviews Elizabeth Eger's Bluestockings: Women of reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism and Arianne Chernock's Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism.
Michael Marrus,"The Dreyfus Affair and why it matters today," TLS, 25 August, reviews Louis Begley's Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters and Ruth Harris's The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the affair that divided France.
We've featured the early color photography before at Cliopatria. There is both the Library of Congress's"The Empire That Was Russia," showcasing the work of of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii and displays of the work of Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud and other color photographers of World War I."Russia in color, a century ago," The Big Picture, 20 August, is the Boston Globe's display of Prokudin-Gorskii's work. The photographs are simply stunning.
Michael Dirda reviews Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective for the Washington Post, 26 August.
For the Telegraph, 18 August, on the 50th anniversary of its original publication, Andrew Rosenheim reviews a new, revised edition of Ernest Hemingway's memoir, A Moveable Feast. It is, says Rosenheim,"a study in character assassination,""a masterpiece of malice."