“Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! The scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round the little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent..." ~ George Eliot

October 28, 2011

Women & Royalty

As a follow up to the women & academia post a few weeks ago, I thought this story from NBC nightly news particularly noteworthy. We do not often think of western nations as the ones "behind the times," and even as someone who studies British Literature from the nineteenth-century, it honestly didn't occur to me just how outdated the rules of succession in Britain were.

Fortunately, they seemed outdated to someone and Parliament agreed. Today they have altered a more than 300 year-old rule so that now any first-born child of the current king and queen can inherit the throne, even if that child is a girl.




3 comments:

Vicki said...

Yay! (although the whole royalty thing is still a little strange to me)

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