The Importance of Being Earnest

<p>This week we travel back to Victorian England with the Importance of Being Earnest! Join us for a discussion of female archers, foundlings, boutonnieres, the film's many great zingers, tattoos, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Archery:<br /> John Stanley, "Archery History: The Sport that Pioneered Equality for Women's Participation," World Archery, available at https://worldarchery.sport/news/178437/archery-history-sport-pioneered-equality-womens-participation<br /> Archery Dresses, Autumn 1831, Claremont Colleges Fashion Plate Collection. Available at https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fpc/id/174/<br /> William Powell Frith, "The Fair Toxophilites." Available at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Victorian_era#/media/File:RAMM_Frith_-_The_Fair_Toxophilites.jpg"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Victorian_era#/media/File:RAMM_Frith_-_The_Fair_Toxophilites.jpg</a></p> <p>Film Background:<br /> The Importance of Being Earnest, 2002, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest_(2002_film)<br /> Roger Ebert Review of The Importance of Being Earnest, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-importance-of-being-earnest-2002<br /> "The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)" IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1<br /> Lady Bracknell quotes: https://www.importanceofbeingearnest.co.uk/lady-bracknell-quotes/</p> <p>Foundlings:</p> <p>Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London (Rutgers University Press, 2006).<br /> Ellen Boucher, Empire's children: child emigration, welfare, and the decline of the British world, 1869-1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).<br /> Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital (Bloomsbury, 2012).<br /> Lynda Nead, "Fallen Women and Foundlings: Rethinking Victorian Sexuality," History Workshop Journal 82 (August 2016).<br /> Jane Humphries (reviewer) "Orphans of Empire: The Fate of L