Difference between revisions of "Malody"
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* '''melody''' | * '''melody''' | ||
*'''menses''' | *'''menses''' | ||
| − | *'''hysteria, "The Female Malady"''' | + | *'''hysteria, "The Female Malady"''' |
| + | *'''madness:''' in nineteenth-century Britain madness was first and foremost a female condition (cf Elaine Showalter's work). | ||
| + | *(an anachronism, but....)''' Virginia Woolf''': wrote her suicide note March 28th, 1941 -- just over 2 months after Joyce's own death. Woolf had a malady, and drowned herself in a river (ALP!) | ||
Latest revision as of 22:39, 8 August 2018
- maladie/malady: (French) disease → see ills two lines above
- melody
- menses
- hysteria, "The Female Malady"
- madness: in nineteenth-century Britain madness was first and foremost a female condition (cf Elaine Showalter's work).
- (an anachronism, but....) Virginia Woolf: wrote her suicide note March 28th, 1941 -- just over 2 months after Joyce's own death. Woolf had a malady, and drowned herself in a river (ALP!)
