#destructive fire

Burning Papers: Women, Fire, and Agency

Some version of these things is now my one-step-short-of-OFFICIAL dissertation topic! As such, get ready to see a lot of fire around here for the next... oh, hundred years.

Images: 

Edward Henry Corbould, Retrospection (watercolor) (ca. 1840) [SOURCE UNKNOWN--GET IN TOUCH PLS IF YOU KNOW MORE!]

August Toulmouche, La Lettre (1874) [Sotheby’s]

JMW Turner’s Burning of the Houses of Parliament (1834-5) [Tate]

Illustrated London News: “Burned to Death Through Reading in Bed” (1886) [via Bob Nicholson on Twitter]

Sir Frederic Leighton, Flaming June (1895) [Museo de Arte de Ponce, PR]

Jean-Baptiste Mallet, Lady Burning Letters in an Elegant Interior (1832) [Christie’s]

Carl Schweninger the Younger, Forlorn/Unrequited Love [Verlorene Liebe] (pre-1912?) [Wiki]

Punch cartoon, “Punch’s Advice to Ladies” on firescreens for crinolines (21 Feb 1863) [full issue online]

Millais, Autumn Leaves (1856) [Manchester City Art Gallery]

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. | Calmer winds offer chance to slow Southern California fire

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.  — Firefighters hoped a narrow window of calm Saturday would give them a chance to block Southern California wildfires that have marched on an inexorable path of destruction toward the sea, burning everything from mobile homes to mansions.

Winds that drove the flames through bone-dry hills and canyons north and west of downtown Los Angeles were expected to die down until…

CHICO, Calif | Teacher: Bus drivers evacuated students amid California fire

CHICO, Calif. — Teachers, aides and bus drivers in Northern California loaded more than 100 school students into cars and school buses as a fast-moving wildfire approached, driving hours through smoke and flames to safely reunite the children with their families, according to one of the teachers who helped get people to safety.

Marc Kessler, a science teacher at a Paradise Unified School District…