Posts by Pamela
Pippi Longstocking Goes to War
(Okay, I admit it. That’s an inaccurate, click-bait of a title.) Today Astrid Lindgren is famous as the creator of Pippi Longstocking: the red-headed quirky rebel who proclaimed herself the strongest girl in the world.* In World War II, Lindgren was a 30-something housewife and aspiring author. Her war diaries, published posthumously in Sweden and…
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Mercy Street, Round 2
Back in November I promised you that I wouldn’t clutter History in the Margins with little bits of news and speaking gigs. And I intend to keep that promise. But I want to give the Marginalia a heads up that the PBS series Mercy Street will air a second season starting on January 22. Which…
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Victoria: The Novel
I don’t normally review novels here on the Margins. In fact, I seldom review novels, period. I read constantly for my work: Big Fat History Books, erudite (and sometimes not so erudite) articles, the first hand accounts on which Big Fat History Books depend.* When I read for fun, I read fiction. I try not…
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