A greal companion for the past year. I enjoyed learning about women whose stories deserve to be told. Toksvig tells their stories with her usual crisp style and dry wit.
A greal companion for the past year. I enjoyed learning about women whose stories deserve to be told. Toksvig tells their stories with her usual crisp style and dry wit.
I have been reading this since January (trying my best to keep up with the calendar!) and it was a really interesting read!
Each month started with some info about the month and a poem, and every day was dedicated to a new and interesting woman. There is also a set of YouTube videos by Sandy Toksvig apparently which I may check out, which was the inspiration for the almanac (voxtox).
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Interesting tidbit for #Morocco #FoodAndLit in the almanac today!
Sayyida al Hurra died on the 14th July 1561
She was the queen of pirates in Tétouan, Northern Morocco from 1515 for thirty years! She was the last person to legitimately have the title al Hurra (Queen) and when she married the Berber king of Morocco Ahmed al-Wattasi she refused to leave Tétouan. Apparently this is the only time a Moroccan king has married away from the capital Fez!
I wanted to summarise the most interesting (IMO) women from January but there were too many!
January covered doctors, Hollywood stars, Nobel prize winners, chefs, explorers/cartographers, rulers, marathon runners, astronomers, campaigners against slavery, even Granny Smith to name but a few.
I‘m looking forward to feb already! Speaking of, we survived Wolf month (Jan), the month you were most likely to be eaten by a Wolf back in the day! Yay us!
I am planning on reading this one throughout the year, sticking as close to the actual day as possible!
It looks really interesting :)