I've just joined the list--knew it was there, have been trying to resist as
I'm on far too many lists already--but finally succumbed.
I've been a feminist ever since I can remember (since before I first came
across the word and thought 'aha'): though concerned about some of the more
recent developments in feminism and the changing definitions of what it means
to people, I'd still say, 'I AM a feminist, but...' (rather than 'I'm not a
feminist, but...')
I read various fantastic literature in childhood/adolescence--most memorably
the Narnia books--but really got into sf/fantasy in my early 20s with Le Guin
(Left Hand of Darkness and Earthsea) and McCaffrey's Pern books. Now have a
large and ever-growing collection, mostly of works by women (though perhaps
not all strictly feminist!).
Have had 2 fantasy short stories published (in The Penguin Book of Modern
Fantasy by Women and The Penguin Book of Erotic Writing by Women) and have
completed several unpublished novels. I am not actually writing fiction at the
moment, due less (I think) to the discouragement of not getting these
published, than to the pressures of having both a full-time career as an
archivist (at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London)
and an increasingly demanding 'spare-time' vocation as an historian. (One of
my current projects is a biography of Stella Browne, an early C20th British
feminist and socialist, who although--as far as I can ascertain--she never
wrote any actual fiction, was very definitely a utopian thinker.)
Looking forward to being on the list
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@msn.com
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