And the Other 51%?

[faustus]

Tristram Bloody Hunt writes "History used to be the study of great men. Now it's of Everyman" - and one can't help but notice that, aside from Victoria Glendinning, it is men discussed. Even Everyman doesn't get to be a woman (what was Woolf's line about suspecting Anon was likely a woman?)

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Paging George Eliot

[oursin]

[T]hat things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Permission to thwap Mr Hunt over the head with a copy of Middlemarch?

Re: Paging George Eliot

[faustus]

He might retaliate with his two biographies of Freddie Engels - or is it the same book with two titles? Amazon want to sell you both.