This dreck is so maddening and frustrating. “We enlightened ones know how much better it is to just identify out of being women than to insist that women are not inferior.”
Vernon Lee published her first writing at 14 & went on to write over 40 books in fields including travel, philosophy, psychology, art history, feminism, politics, gardening, and music theory. Not only that, she has also been credited with popularising the word ‘empathy’.
— Ashmolean Museum (@AshmoleanMuseum) February 16, 2022
… Read the restHere, and in the podcast episode, we use the pronouns she and her because that is what Vernon used to describe herself, but if she were alive today, she might well choose gender neutral pronouns.
— Ashmolean Museum (@AshmoleanMuseum)