An odd error at: 6:40 It only takes a couple of minutes, not hours, to trim a feather into a quill pen. When the tip wears out, you can quickly re-trim the feather and give it a new tip, until it gets too short. ua-cam.com/video/6UGYlEVq1AQ/v-deo.html Fussing with quills was an annoyance, and people always grumbled about them, but they worked very well for hundreds of years. Most feathers were taken from live domestic geese, who would re-grow a feather in about a year - they were a renewable resource. Otherwise, this was an interesting and compact lecture.
The notion that women "never learned to write until after the civil war" is pure nonsense. I can access many preserved documents from my own family history of letters written by women who possessed both eloquence AND beautiful penmanship. Many came from relatively humble backgrounds. Check your facts before you condemn past generations.
Artemisia Gentileschi not only became a master oil painter but she could also read and write.
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An odd error at: 6:40 It only takes a couple of minutes, not hours, to trim a feather into a quill pen. When the tip wears out, you can quickly re-trim the feather and give it a new tip, until it gets too short. ua-cam.com/video/6UGYlEVq1AQ/v-deo.html Fussing with quills was an annoyance, and people always grumbled about them, but they worked very well for hundreds of years.
Most feathers were taken from live domestic geese, who would re-grow a feather in about a year - they were a renewable resource.
Otherwise, this was an interesting and compact lecture.
The notion that women "never learned to write until after the civil war" is pure nonsense. I can access many preserved documents from my own family history of letters written by women who possessed both eloquence AND beautiful penmanship. Many came from relatively humble backgrounds. Check your facts before you condemn past generations.
Agreed. Such a dumb comment in an otherwise informative (and mostly accurate) lecture.