Sunday, April 13th, 2008
You might know that I am interested in the relationship between photographs and memory.
There was a time when people thought of memory as “capturing” the past as photographs claim to. We’re not so naïve now, about either process.
Millicent, Margaret Forster’s fictional “ordinary woman“, writes in her diary:
It’s become ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Margaret Forster is a biographer and novelist, and in Diary of an Ordinary Woman she merges the two forms.
Presented as the edited diary of Millicent King, born in 1901, the book is, in fact, Forster’s invention. An author’s note explains that, having been promised the diaries of a real-life ‘Millicent’ ...
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