This weeks seminar discussions focused on Clemence Housman’s, an author and illustrator, The Were-Wolf and her wood-cut engraved illustrations. Houseman was a massive supporter of the woman's rights/sufferage movement which resulted in her defying gender norms within her lifestyle choices and literary work. Within the work we focused on, she defies gender norms by depicting a female werewolf within her work during a time where werewolves were assumed to be a symbol representing man.

I really enjoyed today's exercise of annotating and analyzing the images and text within Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.  Starting off the lecture with some context about how Christmas was celebrated in the 1840's allowed me to understand the text better. While reading through and annotating the chapter assigned to my group, it was interesting to find certain lines that would not make sense in today's context or words that we maybe no longer use.