Janet Zenke Edwards

Alice Gray was a remarkable character, and I don't think this work does her justice, even with the limited primary source material available. The narrative skips around in time and gets confusing, and in some cases (at least in the printing I read) there appear to be factual errors: an introductory chapter refers to the births of her two children with Paul Wilson, which I think is a conflation of Gray and Paul's second wife. It's clear from diary entries published in the papers and re-published as an appendix to the work that she endured some real bullshit in academia and academic-adjacent employment--and her self doubt is painful to read. Nobody who covered her in her lifetime appears to have 'gotten' her, and I don't think this book gets her either, although it does offer some hints. It's frustrating that her manuscripts were lost/destroyed.… (más)