Today I read Jean Rhys’ “After Leaving Mr Mackenzie” first published in 1930. It’s a fairly bleak book, and in some ways I don’t know that things have changed much for women . . . I’ll have to think about it and write properly. I’d like to compare it with other things written at the time, like Orwell’s “Down and out in Paris and London” and some of Waugh’s books, and Anthony Powell, and Woolf.

I should follow Amy’s suggestion and get a blog going! (Yes, another blog! but it might encourage me to write more consistently, and more to the point. With fewer fragments.)