Russell Square

Today I went to the British Museum in Russell Square... AFter going to my Jane Austen in Context lecture... who knew that the first novel written from the point of view of a female character By a woman was Evelina, by Frances Burney in 1780, when Austen was 5??? And even that was epistolary, not third person narrative. 

But Russell Square Park was so pretty, it's just a square around a cool flat fountain with like ten spigots that stay low for a while then grow bigger every half hour or so... it was so cute this pigeon fell in love with one of the little spurts and was dancing around it and cuddling with it... then it started to rise higher and the pigeon looked like it was willing to drown to stay with it, I thought it was going to drown but then it flew away.

... The British Museum was really huge and full of all these cool things- the Rosetta Stone and a piece of the Sphinx in Egypt. There was actually a really amazing section of Egyptian artifacts that made me really want to go to Egypt... ahem.

So I got a little bit accepted to Mortar and Pestle, a gw online literary magazine... so here's to validation! If interested...  

http://studentorgs.gwu.edu/mortar/winter2008and2009/poetry/required/

Love, Chelsea