drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology 📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025) https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
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@drnaomibaker.bsky.socialI saw a production of this in my 20s, and it made such an impression on me that 30 years later I put it in a crime novel. (No one in the original production died, I hasten to add.)
Show Post..although I envied THEIR freedom to do so without derision..!!) At the time, and with the sample size I observed (maybe 200 or so in those years..?) there was definitely a greater homogeneity in girls' handwriting than in boys' batshit variations..!!
Show PostFascinating..!! In my 80s childhood&adolescence, the handwriting of the girls I knew was UNIFORMLY neater, more legible & (much) less chaotic than boys' handwriting. Which is why I modelled my OWN writing on that of my female contemporaries. (Usually sans a heart in lieu of a dot above i &j..
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