Here are two possibilities for the title and sub-title of Miss Mawer’s biography. What do you think? (Please ignore the photo, it is only a prototype mock-up of the cover.) IRENE MAWER: The Biography. A Female Experience of Mime, Movement and Voice in the 20th Century. Or
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The Barnstar is a community-driven award on Wikipedia, used to recognize editors who contribute meaningfully to Wikipedia content. It’s a way of saying “thank you” and celebrating collaborative effort of Wikipedia. Some years ago, I created a Wikipedia page for Miss Mawer. I worked hard on it and was very
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Recently, I was lucky enough to attend the Ruby Ginner Awards 2025, held by the Classical Greek Dance Association. While I was there, I mentioned that next year, 2026, will be the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Ginner-Mawer School. I was rather deflated when, on being asked
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My book about Irene Mawer has been written for some time. The book is finished. So why isn’t it published? The reason is complicatedly simple – copyright. I always knew that I would need to deal with copyright, but I had innocently assumed it would be straight forward, and mainly
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How did Miss Mawer write? I mean, physically? Where did she write, and what did she use? In 1929 Virginia Woolf said that for a woman to write, she needed her own money and her own room. I think she was talking about fiction, but in this blog post, I
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I wonder if any of the Ginner-Mawer Dancers mimed playing the musical instruments used in ancient Greece? The students would mime the ancient weapons used by Greek warriors, so I would expect that they also mimed the playing of musical instruments. Two famous stringed instruments of ancient Greece are the
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In Ancient Greece, both the laurel and the olive trees provided symbolic branches and wreaths. Wreaths for specific celebrations could also be made of other plants and trees (eg, ivy or pine). Even to this day, the olive branch symbolises peace. If we want to repair a bad relationship with
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Well! As ever, when I ask Ai about mime and Miss Mawer, it gets some of it right, but some of it frighteningly wrong. While procrastinating (not finishing my books), I asked Ai to design a mime course. At first, I gave it free reign, and afterwards, I told it
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Having reached a hiatus with writing my books, suffering from a defecit of concentration and focus, I decided to work on a different aspect of publication. I decided to make a slogan. After all, why work when you can procrastinate? So here it is, my slogan, or tag line, or
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