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Additions and Ornaments to the Bare Grant of a Living: Elizabeth Gaskell, the ‘Manchester Guardian’ and Cultural Value in 1914
Originally posted on misplacedhabits: When doing some research for a small project I am involved in, I came across this wonderful passage on the value of the arts in the Manchester Guardian, written in the context of a campaign to purchase Mrs Gaskell’s house for the city after her daughter, Meta, had died in 1913.…
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Juggling
Juggling, I have discovered this week, isn’t easy. I can only assume that this time last year I was so taken up with the prospect of moving house that the PhD took a back seat to packing boxes and playing with my children. I didn’t have my summer panel meeting until the middle of August…
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Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation
This week I finally have something a bit different to say. I am aware, you see, that writing a blog about writing a PhD is a bit repetitive: “read some ballads, thought about the music, wrote about some ballads, went to a supervision meeting, did some more research, wrote a bit more, read some secondary…
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Summer Holidays
Yesterday, my three children broke up for the summer. This will have a significant, negative impact on the amount of work I get done, of course, but that was always part of the deal. My summer action plan contains lots of little bits of work that can be broken off part way through, like transcriptions,…
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Summer Panel Meeting
This week I had my fourth panel meeting, which was a very interesting experience. I wouldn’t exactly say I enjoyed it, but it was certainly stimulating and it wasn’t quite so scary as previous ones had been. I’d sent in a chapter on putting ballads back together with their music, a short piece of writing…
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There it was, gone
A funny sort o f week. Today I sent off all my work for my panel meeting, which is scheduled for next week. My supervisors certainly have plenty to keep them busy – my research plan, training log and chapter plan don’t take up too much space, but the draft chapter on combining music and…
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Day Trip to London
Today I’ve been to London and back for a meeting of the branches and members committee of the Historical Association. We finished earlier than expected so I spent an hour and a half in the British Museum. I had a look round the Mexican gallery, as always, as I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the…
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Redrafting
This week I’ve been working from home again. I’ve redrafted my chapter on ballad music ready for my panel meeting and redrafted my article, although I’m not certain where I’m going to send it to. Between them, they have taken me all week. I’m going to proofread them tomorrow, as I think it’s more or…
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The Lady with the Headache – Update
I think I said I wasn’t going to turn this into a blog about my health, but because I have just had a comment on my blog post ‘ The Lady with the Headache‘, I thought I’d give you a quick update. Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome, being reversible, has reversed. There is a slight feeling…
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Panic!
Almost. Not quite. Well, perhaps sometimes. It comes over me in waves, usually on a Saturday or Sunday. This weekend it was Sunday, today, that the enormity of trying to perfect my chapter before my panel meeting. Now, if I only had to perfect my chapter in time for my panel meeting, things might be…
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