2018/02: The Illumination of Ursula Flight -- Anna Marie Crowhurst
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 10:13 am2018/02: The Illumination of Ursula Flight -- Anna Marie Crowhurst
A delightful Restoration romp, which might take as its subtitle one of the chapter headings: 'HERE BE THE MOSTE SECRETE DIARY OF U. FLIGHT'. Told entirely in Ursula's voice, a mixture of journal entries, letters and play scripts, it is the story of one woman's determination to live independently.( slightly spoilery )
A film of sweat broke across my back – I was not gravely ill with a lethal bleeding; I would not burst out in pulsing buboes and end the day consigned, by my elbow, to a plague-cart. Nay, it was much, much worse: I was become a woman and could now bear children! [loc. 901]
A delightful Restoration romp, which might take as its subtitle one of the chapter headings: 'HERE BE THE MOSTE SECRETE DIARY OF U. FLIGHT'. Told entirely in Ursula's voice, a mixture of journal entries, letters and play scripts, it is the story of one woman's determination to live independently.( slightly spoilery )