Changed mind 1a

She grew up in the wealthiest suburb of Montreal, Canada, but came to hate the snobbery aimed at her middle-class mom. By the time she got to university, Elizabeth Nickson was marching at any and all protests. Her philosophy prof-boyfriend recruited her for communism.

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In London, her circle of political/international friendships grew while she worked for Time magazine. She describes herself as "a happy swimmer in the cultural left," where everyone was waiting for socialism to save the world. She wrote a book and became the European Bureau Chief for Life magazine.

She discovered while visiting family that her great-great-grandmother had been a feminist back in 1850! What an inspiration! So she must write a novel, possibly centered around the oppression that woman must have endured from family and the barbaric society of that unenlightened time. She and her editor happily "dug for dirt" as they researched three centuries of family history.

from C2C Journal

(cont'd tomorrow)