I found this week's class very interesting on The Annancy Stories and Pamela Colman Smith as a probable mixed-race, female illustrator and storyteller. Now more than ever, it is important to decolonize Victorian studies that are conventionally white-eurocentric based and study texts that were also created during the Victoria 'era' albeit, outside of England. I enjoyed Professor Kooistra's mini-presentation on Pamela Colman Smith and her contribution to the Celtic Revival in Ireland and her work in illustrating folk tales. I had the fortunate experience of studying abroad in Ireland last semester at the University College Cork and took multiple classes on the Celtic Revival where they heavily focused on Yeates and Lady Gregory. Not once, did any of my Irish classes mention Pamela Colman as a figure who contributed to the Celtic Revival. I find this rather interesting as there were lots of people (not necessarily white Europeans) who contributed to this rich literature movement.  I also enjoyed our discussion on the limitations and complexities of Pamela Colman as an author. I think her breadth of work speaks for itself, however, it is still important to know biographical information about an author and how an author's lived experiences inform the text. I feel as if her interest in folk tales and lived experience in Jamaica heavily influences The Annancy Stories and in particular, the illustration that Emma discussed today in class. The discussed image was certainly multi-layered, with emphasis on clothing as a mode of transformation. As someone who has studied a decent amount of Victoria texts, studying an Indo-Affrican text that has been impacted by colonialism was very interesting.