MJ's Challenge ~ The Voyage Out

[mommiesrcool]

Why did I read this as Vouge like I thought that there was a contest for a Vogue magazine cover for chickens

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm actually using the kindle reader on my phone...I don't think my older kindle would do it either!

Ohhhh I don't have that app..

I'm such a book devotee. I like to see the sticky notes poking out. Sometimes I write in my books too

 

[MaryJanet]

Why did I read this as Vouge like I thought that there was a contest for a Vogue magazine cover for chickens

Sorry no! It's a book club reading Virginia Woolf's first novel.

 

[RoyalChick]

I made a diagram with one of Google's tools to compare internet searching acroos the world for the women writers we've been discussing.

I hope you can read it ok.

Google only gave me data since 2004. But I guess 17 years is an ok window.

The big assumption here is that web searches approximate public interest. There are vast numbers of people who don't use the internet, so the assumption is actually a little unreliabe.

It's also unfair to count the Brontes individually when they so intensely shaped each others work and died young, leaving so little work. I didn't see how to count them properly and then aggregate the data. So I gave up and didn't count Anne at all.





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Wow. Weirdly interesting. I imagine the Mitfords didn't show at all? Shame really, I have always found them intriguing.
The spikes are interesting - for Jane Austen could they be movies? What created that massive spike in interest in Virginia Woolf I wonder?

 

[drstratton]

Ohhhh I don't have that app..

I'm such a book devotee. I like to see the sticky notes poking out. Sometimes I write in my books too

There truly is nothing like a real book! I was going to purchase this book, but when I saw that I could get if for free, I decided that was the way to go for right now. I have boxes of books, I've been waiting for my husband to build bookshelves...for the last 20 years... I don't have a problem with writing in books, well if it's one of my really old books I might get upset...lol!

 

[MaryJanet]

That is a complicated question. Progress (if indeed it is progress) is surely not linear with time.

Such a great point.

 

[MaryJanet]

Wow. Weirdly interesting. I imagine the Mitfords didn't show at all? Shame really, I have always found them intriguing.
The spikes are interesting - for Jane Austen could they be movies? What created that massive spike in interest in Virginia Woolf I wonder?

I didn't put the Mitfords in because I didn't know which of them were writers. I know one was a chickeneer and little else (what a great woman, right??!!)

 

[MaryJanet]

If you feed me names, I'll put them on the graph.

 

[MaryJanet]

Actually it turns out the Googler can only graph 5 search terms at a time, so you'll have to tell me which writer to leave out as well.

 

[MaryJanet]

By the way, if everyone's got the book now, I'll make a start on the first chapter