Um. Useful calibration for me: my 'I have been sort of ignoring' is more like 'I read stuff if it comes across my notice in other ways, but have not been going out and searching for it and/or actively reading deeply in that area', which means I still probably read a couple of dozen articles/blog posts/shorter stuff a year relating to it, and maybe a book or two. Not including the stuff that's related to work.
But I am, in comparison, vastly better read, including a bunch of the primary sources, on ancient Greece and Rome, or medieval England and France, or Renaissance Italy, and chunks of other history. I've been working on broadening out my background in non-Europe rather than diving into the 18th/19th century stuff mostly, when I've been deliberately pushing at new content.
(And a lot of my 18th/19th century deliberate deeper reading has been specific to esoteric interests, now I think about it, the stuff that lead into the modern Pagan cultural movement.)
But yes, Mary Anning is awesome. I first dug into her history when Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures came out, since I was working in a high school library, and made a point of reading a couple of new titles we got in most months.
(It is a good thing I read fast when my brain is cooperating.)
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Date: 2017-04-13 12:53 pm (UTC)Um. Useful calibration for me: my 'I have been sort of ignoring' is more like 'I read stuff if it comes across my notice in other ways, but have not been going out and searching for it and/or actively reading deeply in that area', which means I still probably read a couple of dozen articles/blog posts/shorter stuff a year relating to it, and maybe a book or two. Not including the stuff that's related to work.
But I am, in comparison, vastly better read, including a bunch of the primary sources, on ancient Greece and Rome, or medieval England and France, or Renaissance Italy, and chunks of other history. I've been working on broadening out my background in non-Europe rather than diving into the 18th/19th century stuff mostly, when I've been deliberately pushing at new content.
(And a lot of my 18th/19th century deliberate deeper reading has been specific to esoteric interests, now I think about it, the stuff that lead into the modern Pagan cultural movement.)
But yes, Mary Anning is awesome. I first dug into her history when Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures came out, since I was working in a high school library, and made a point of reading a couple of new titles we got in most months.
(It is a good thing I read fast when my brain is cooperating.)