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Well now I'm very intrigued. I randomly heard about Charlotte Mew for the first time a few days ago while watching a series on the National Portrait Gallery. They have a wonderful watercolor portrait of her featured in a grouping of WWI poets and I went down the google rabbit hole.
Sarah wrote: "Well now I'm very intrigued. I randomly heard about Charlotte Mew for the first time a few days ago while watching a series on the National Portrait Gallery. They have a wonderful watercolor portra..."
Omg, it's such a rabbit hole! Especially because - and I think this is important to the role Charlotte Mew plays thematically in The Poet - it feels like until fairly recently what little attention to paid to her was because of her link to Hardy and/or her tragic death. Very little to Mew as an author.
"finding your own capacity for audacity, when privilege is basically just audacity normalised" is a lovely turn of phrase I'd like to carry around with me for a while, thank you!
Ally wrote: ""finding your own capacity for audacity, when privilege is basically just audacity normalised" is a lovely turn of phrase I'd like to carry around with me for a while, thank you!"
Omg, thank you so much! <3
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Jan 04, 2026 08:23AM
Well now I'm very intrigued. I randomly heard about Charlotte Mew for the first time a few days ago while watching a series on the National Portrait Gallery. They have a wonderful watercolor portrait of her featured in a grouping of WWI poets and I went down the google rabbit hole.
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Sarah wrote: "Well now I'm very intrigued. I randomly heard about Charlotte Mew for the first time a few days ago while watching a series on the National Portrait Gallery. They have a wonderful watercolor portra..."Omg, it's such a rabbit hole! Especially because - and I think this is important to the role Charlotte Mew plays thematically in The Poet - it feels like until fairly recently what little attention to paid to her was because of her link to Hardy and/or her tragic death. Very little to Mew as an author.
"finding your own capacity for audacity, when privilege is basically just audacity normalised" is a lovely turn of phrase I'd like to carry around with me for a while, thank you!
Ally wrote: ""finding your own capacity for audacity, when privilege is basically just audacity normalised" is a lovely turn of phrase I'd like to carry around with me for a while, thank you!"Omg, thank you so much! <3
