You are quite right. The lives of women seem of little interest to the historian. Let me tell you a story –

During the first World War the British lost a total of 2,090,212 casualties out of a population of 45.4 million. Do you know what this means? – a generation without men. The chance of a woman getting married after those event in England were tragically low. I figure at least a million women did not marry after that generational tragedy. Have you ever seen so much as a word about this? Anywhere?

I promise you if two million women died in the United States, there would be government immigration policies in effect in a matter of weeks to allow quick citizenship for imported women. It would be considered a national crisis.

For the United States to have a proportional loss as the British did we would have to lose about 13 million men.

Women’s lives have not been considered important. Maybe that is changing.

James Pilant

Last week I finished reading Jane Eyre and I have been at a loss for what to post about it. I have been trying to find similarities between the novel and the museums that we have visited, but I have seen very little to compare. Overall, there is a general lack of attention paid to the working class and middle class of England in these museums, especially in regards to females. The majority of the museums, with the exceptions of the Museum of Lond … Read More

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