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cjp_still: For well over a century, women have been taking pills to terminate their pregnancy. It's never been safer to do so than now:
cjp_still: UPDATE: My various powers that be have deemed this both too small fry to go after, and hazy legally (with their list of resources). But since this podcast seems committed to this format, as a warning to other authors, here it is:
cjp_still: The central figure of The Gilded Edge, Nora May French, was Henry Wells' grand-niece and grew up in Aurora, NY, the town Wells as much as built. I was way up in the Wells archive and it was hinky from the start.
cjp_still: November 13th, 1907, poet Nora May French died of cyanide ingestion in the home of George and Carrie Sterling, founders of the Bohemian writers colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea. She was 26. Her death was covered in the newspapers coast to coast.
cjp_still: Carmel has put out a new documentary about its Bohemian founders (scroll down to trailer). Sadly, no mention of Nora May French. But you gotta love the energy they're brining to George Sterling!
Adria_French: FWIW, Nora Volkow is Trotsky's great-granddaughter. Her father, as a boy of 12, was in the house in Mexico during the attempted assassination in May and was shot in the foot.
cjp_still: An autumn poem by Nora May French who was not a fan of California's rapid land development.
DevpalNitesh: Huge fan of you, i adore you... Nora is next level i see her interviews ,her songs for half of the day in my routine. No one inspires may in a way Nora did. And soon am coming to mumbai to be like her lots of love NORA MAAAAAAAAAM.
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cjp_still: "I can no longer think of Carmel without thinking of abortion — and Nora May French.
For this, I blame the U.S. Supreme Court, and literary scholar Catherine Prendergast’s searing 2021 book “The Gilded Edge”
cjp_still: In 1907, poet Nora May French wrote her boyfriend what had caused her to seek an abortion: "It was as if we were walking together and my feet were struggling with some pulling quicksand under the grass."
cjp_still: I tried in The Gilded Edge not to oversell Nora May French's poems, but some tell men to f off so well:
You cannot share my ardent life apart,
Nor feel the upward straining of my heart.
In every vein the urging currents flow,
Leaf after leaf unfolds: the plant must grow.
cjp_still: Finally, handwriting can tell you a lot about state of mind of writer, if you've seen several examples. This letter, in which Nora May French writes her lover about her abortion (written *during her abortion) shows more pressure on the pencil than her other letters.
cjp_still: Nora May French, grand niece of Henry Wells (AMEX/Wells Fargo) refused to marry and preferred to write poetry. After years of working in low wage jobs, she died of cyanide poisoning at the age of 26 in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
cjp_still: Going through some old photos that didn't make it into the book and love this one of poet Nora May French Taken probably 1905-ish but looking almost modern. Who does she look like to you?
cjp_still: Thanks to the San Francisco Public Library for featuring Nora May French and The Gilded Edge!
mxnaomiruth: Nora May French seems to have been involved in a throuple.
GMillerTSN: Most career Grand Slam titles (men):
Rafael Nadal 21
Novak Djokovic 20
Roger Federer 20
Next stop: the French Open, which Nadal (the King of Clay) has won 13 times. Djokovic may not be able to enter the country due to France’s new vaccination guidelines.
norathegame: These famous witches from history brewed Egyptian beers, French love potions, and more. Nora may have learned some of this in school before they kicked her out...
Error300G: These famous witches from history brewed Egyptian beers, French love potions, and more. Nora may have learned some of this in school before they kicked her out...
cjp_still: In the examples I've given so far, people record the food because it is notable or special to them. But sometimes people mention food while they're making another point. As in Nora May French's story of molding the table bread into "dropsical bears" to survive a boring date.
cjp_still: In the examples I've given so far, people record the food because it is notable or special to them. But sometimes people mention food while they're making another point. As in Nora May French's story of molding the table bread into "dropsical bears" to survive a boring date.
drandrewb: a reminder that Novak Djokovic may still be allowed to play in the Australian Open with a vaccine exemption in a pandemic while Naomi Osaka was not accommodated for mental health and had to withdraw from the French Open.
cjp_still: Bonus for readers of The Gilded Edge: Rumor has it that Nora May French wrote "Something Terrible is Going to Happen" on the walls before the earthquake, thus predicting it. Seriously doubt that. Sounds like more blaming Nora for every disaster to me.
Davey_Sojourner: A poem by Nora May French (1881-1907)
cjp_still: Nora May French did not put her name on her cover story for the Saturday Evening Post, despite the Post’s circulation of 1 million in 1907. She was known a serious poet. But poetry didn’t pay and this did.
cjp_still: In fact, the jobs were low-wage with high turnover. The Hello Girls were constantly monitored, lest they extract some bit of information from a call they could use to extort a high profile caller. Nora May French, the poet who winds up as a Hello Girl found it stressful.
cjp_still: Particularly in disaster, though, Hello Girls were vital to first response infrastructure. Nora May French worked the San Francisco lines after the earthquake of 1906 nearly leveled the city. They were the 911 operators of their day.
cjp_still: I have always suspected that Nora May French, a poet, took the job not only out of poverty, but because she intended to write about it someday. The Post often ran stories that were confessions of low wage women. Think a forerunner to Netflix's Maid.
cjp_still: It is no accident that Stephanie Land's book Maid and Nora May French's"Diary of a Telephone Girl" came out when they did: Both written in the context of extreme wealth inequalitiy they revealed anxieties about the collision of high and low class, and women who know too much.
CrimeReads: "One doesn’t die but becomes an unknown woman, one mutilated sheet of paper at a time."
breathtakebyway: Quite a story!
Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
breathtakebyway: Quite a story!
Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
cjp_still: I thought long and hard about whether to begin The Gilded Edge with French's abortion. I knew a lot of people would open the first page and close it again. But when the anti-abortion laws started ticking up, I thought, "Oh, we are starting exactly here."
cjp_still: Nora May French was pregnant by a married man when she bought the pills. She knew when they took her that they could kill her. She took them anyway. The married man did not have to risk death to have what was to him an unwelcome pregnancy ended.
cjp_still: My favorite point in every--and I mean *every--interview I do about The Gilded Edge is when the interviewer asks, "Ok what do you really think happened the night Nora May French died?" and then tells me what they think happened. They'll never print it but they need to know.
LMFCV: "All sensible people will ultimately be damned." -- Nora May French
Quibellp: Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
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CrimeReads: "One doesn’t die but becomes an unknown woman, one mutilated sheet of paper at a time."
KathyKellyRN: Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
purpleproze: this made me so sad. so I intend to read the book, natch.
bobbygw: Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
CrimeReads: Let Catherine Prendergast introduce you to the REAL Nora May French:
StephenBentley8: Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
cjp_still: I gotta say I love the subtitle they chose: "RECLAIMING THE LEGACY OF NORA MAY FRENCH, THE PIONEERING POET MADE INTO A FEMME FATALE BY MEDIOCRE MEN AND CALIFORNIA MYTHOLOGY"
BadToss: It's pub day for my book, The Gilded Edge, and now you can read the Prologue online, serialized by Crimereads!
cjp_still: It's pub day for my book, The Gilded Edge, and Crimereads has put up the prologue on their site. Enjoy this taste!
Carmel_PLF: Our Local History Lecture Series is back! Join us this Wednesday to hear about “The Gilded Edge” from author Catherine Prendergast. The book tells the true story of Nora May French and Carrie Sterling, two women in Carmel by the Sea during the Gilded Age!
Davey_Sojourner: "You" by Nora May French (1881-1907)
All elfish woodland things that Fancy broods—
--The comrades of my solitary moods—
Would crouch when heavy footsteps passed them by,
And peer from shelter—freakish folk and shy.
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AuschwitzMuseum: 2 June 1944 | A French Jewish girl Jeanine Ojalvo was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
She was born on 4 September 1940 in Paris & deported from Drancy on 30 May 1944 in a transport of 1,004 Jews.
She was 4 years old.
nameshiv: Congrats French Open, you forced one of the best players in the world to leave midway because you pressured her into doing media she said she wasn't mentally in a good space to do, may you enjoy every bit of all the media attention this will now bring you, you've sure earned it.
Spacereportern1: Nora Arnezeder is a French actress and singer.
Born: May 8, 1989 (age 32 years), Paris, France
Poemas_del_alma: Nora May French
IKIRU2: FLC: Rendez-vous with French Cinema. SHOULD THE WIND DROP/SI LE VENT TOMBE (Nora Martirosyan 2020)This oddball film, like the airport in the story, may bring beneficial attention to an obscure war-torn region. With Grégoire Colin.
_TheFreeFolk: “Left” and “Right” are political terms that originate way back during the French Revolution. I can post a detailed lecture of it here but it will already be too lengthy. You may google it and have access to all the sources you need.
Davey_Sojourner: "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."
~~Adlai Stevenson
"I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned."
~~Nora May French
DrewABC4Chs: Nora may look like me, but she has a lot more of her mom's personality. "Hello, perfect stranger! Would you like to be friends and chat? Here, have one of my french fries!"
Davey_Sojourner: A poem by Nora May French (1881-1907)
Greebohobbes: Nora May French, c. 1907
She was an American poet and member of the bohemian literary circles of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club which flourished after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906.
Photograph: Arnold Genthe
nora_christy: A new species of 'cat fox' may be prowling a French island
nora_kelly: If you're depressed about this:
DABipolaire: Nora Hamzawi, I Love You, I Know You May Be Pregnant (Maybe from me). Confide In Me (Spread “Bipolarity Report” Through French Media, Please) — Would You Want To Mary Me?
AFDubai: Explore the intricacies and the artistic way of Arabic writing,learn the visual language through its lines, shapes and colors the French cultural centre organizes an ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP conducted by Wissam Shawkat,Monday 13th May 10.30AM. Infos:
Parents4Divers1: Parents for Diversity is hosting a FREE French language workshop for parents on navigating discrimination and advocating for their kids in the public school system on May 25th! Help us spread the word to Francophone parents:
ccsjourney: Yesterday by Nora May French
