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Hello Holly, you just popped up on my screen and I am very happy for that. I listened to your intro and did the fast skim of your work. You are writing and speaking on a topic that I’m very passionate about and have spent a lot of time digging into. The history of women has been excluded delegated to the sidelines, deemed as unimportant,

Even though women do the most important job which is to birth babies along side sustenance for life.

It’s very late here, but I am going to come back and read more. Thank you for this beautiful publication.

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Holly, this post resonates with me on so many different levels. I did my Master's dissertation on the role that literary genre plays in reconnecting us with women's stories throughout history (and how we might break out of those traditional genre confines to discover something new, not only as writers but as students of history and readers of literature). As a Christian as well, I deeply appreciate the role that your work plays in the wider ways that we study theology and the Scriptures. Some factions of Christianity really try to wipe women from the story, even when their stories are clear as day in Scripture itself. This post reminds of that part of A Room of One's Own where Woolf theorises what might have happened if Shakespeare had a sister just as brilliant as him. Fab article. Love the work you're doing.

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