back to say the important things: if you’re getting an Afghan Hound, you should name her Veronica Lake

i too am in the bookclub; Kate and i have famously different taste

this just came up for me now literally on the way to bookclub which is tactically a good way to ensure we will discuss

also just learnt Olwyn at one point lived in Doris Lessing’s basement!

sometimes i look back on my girls school education and wonder why all the poems we studied were discussed through the lens of postpartum depression. did they assume we would all have children and therefore Needed To Know? or did they want to scare us out of having children

from Olwyn Hughes's obituary in The Guardian: "she was what the essayist William Hazlitt called “a good hater”."

oh, thank you so much, Rachael, I'm so glad you liked it! @msfriedmann.bsky.social , I recently acquired your tarot book & am really looking forward to reading it! (and yes, i also read tarot cards & often write about them)

Janet Malcolm on Olwyn Hughes: "a personification of the force that can keep the writer from writing"

(actually google answered this quite quickly... she did)

a question the biographer might answer: did olwyn hughes send emails

i am probably not going to become a biographer & do this myself so i wish somebody would write a biography of Olwyn Hughes. all these biographies of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes but it is Olwyn i want to know about, Olwyn's wild letters that i want to read. book about Olwyn please!!

i am back again to try to learn this website ~ i have a cyanometer & not enough jokes

i have come to this website to type my little phrases ~ but i do not know how to find anybody i know ~ friends please find me ~ this set of fragments is my spell