Serious Business

Met Pam to go to see Farinelli and The King (which was excellent).  Also managed the Goya exhibition at the National and a wander round the 19th/20th century galleries of the Portrait Gallery.

This is Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (the first English woman to qualify as a physician)  Obviously as a woman she is in the minority at the gallery but there was also an exhibition of photographs from WW1 which included pictures of nurses who clearly didn't sit at home worrying about the servant problem but of whom we know very little.  It struck me that even that late, part of the problem with understanding the contribution of women is the lack of interesting, readable records.

Good portraits of Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst too.