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Lina Jonn's life was dramatic but very short! She trained up two of her sisters to be photographers and third one became an artist. A year after her marriage she died in connection with childbirth aged about 30. Reality is often more dramatic than fiction. Giving her sisters an "education" looks like a good fictional storyline for "Mrs" Bob.
Perhaps we could extend this thread to propose a complete scenario?
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Whoa!!!, Whoa!!!
"mostly because they reciprocally antagonise the normative hermaneutics of gendered discourse."
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Steven Tribe
Lina Jonn's life was dramatic but very short!
Very true. She married for love, and gave up her successful business to go and be a farmer's wife in Norway. And then died in childbirth.
The business was so successful and well-known that it traded as 'Lina Jonn's successor' for fifty years after her death.
SVT made quite a good documentary about her life as part of their 'Din Släktsaga' series. It would make a good plot for a novel - or opera.
civich: don't worry, we academese-speakers tend to stay safely tucked away in our ivory towers. I am let out for the occasional weekend exiat, but the collar stops me at the parish boundary :-P
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The Lina Jonn story reminds me of the "The Governess" starring Minnie Driver, as far as the governess-to-photographer story line. I don't think I've seen the entire movie actually so I can't necessarily recommend it, but it looked good.
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There is an article in the May 2010 issue of Simthsonian magazine about Frances Benjamin Johnson. I don't know if she qualifies as 'itinerate' but she worked in the late 19th century.
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I personally think the itinerate photographer is a bit thin a story lineand worn - without much opportunity for character development. Perhaps I have seen too many episodes of that series with Jane Seymour (? Medicine woman?) and Little House on the Prairie - by accident, of course. The governess development line is more realist ( certainly as far as two of my maiden Great Aunts were concerned who linked up to run a tiny hotel when their services were no longer required), with a period following a male itinerent photography, followed by small town studio etc.
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Steven Tribe
I personally think the itinerate photographer is a bit thin a story lineand worn - without much opportunity for character development.
But if you include zombies - we're in! :D
PS At first I thought itinerate was misspelled, and that the correct term was itinerant. It turns out either is correct.
American English is funny that way...
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They are not quite the same. An itinerate photography can be described as a itinerant! But an itinerant photographer can never be called an itinerate. Noun + Noun are often used rather than Adjective + Noun.
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Bob,
If your wife has access to a college library and would like to check whether any dissertations or treatises have been written on the subject, I suggest that she look at "Comprehensive Dissertation Index." It is broken down by year and by subject. She should also check out "Dissertation Abstracts International", and "Index to Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees in the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland." When her book is available, I hope that you will mention it in this forum.
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Stuan,
I'm not worried - that line just took my breath away! I keep a dictionary close by.
-Chris
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