Review – Notoriously boring https://notoriouslyboring.dk Making History Interesting Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/notoriouslyboring.dk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/20230326_165925_0000.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Review – Notoriously boring https://notoriouslyboring.dk 32 32 218785248 Review of William D. Johnston’s Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star https://notoriouslyboring.dk/geisha-harlot-strangler-star-by-william-d-johnston-a-review/ https://notoriouslyboring.dk/geisha-harlot-strangler-star-by-william-d-johnston-a-review/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://notoriouslyboring.dk/?p=588 Overall Accessibility Fun Reliability The Author William D. Johnston was surprisingly difficult to track down—turns out, his name is quite common! But after some digging, I found that he was a professor of history at Wesleyan University for 36 years. He holds a BA from Elmira College and an MA and PhD from Harvard. His […]

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]]> https://notoriouslyboring.dk/geisha-harlot-strangler-star-by-william-d-johnston-a-review/feed/ 0 588 Review of Dr. Jan Bardsley’s Maiko Masquerade https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-dr-jan-bardsleys-maiko-masquerade/ https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-dr-jan-bardsleys-maiko-masquerade/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://notoriouslyboring.dk/?p=576 Overall Accessibility Fun Reliability The Author Dr. Jan Bardsley is a scholar of Japanese language and literature and professor emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. She has spent over twenty years studying Japanese women, particularly maiko, and has published extensively on the topic. Her long-standing expertise and numerous teaching awards […]

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]]> https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-dr-jan-bardsleys-maiko-masquerade/feed/ 0 576 Review of Lesley Downer’s Women of the Pleasure Quarters https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-lesley-downers-women-of-the-pleasure-quarters/ https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-lesley-downers-women-of-the-pleasure-quarters/#respond Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:34:50 +0000 https://notoriouslyboring.dk/?p=128 Overall Accessibility Fun Reliability Lesley Downer is a journalist (and historian, though she doesn’t mention whether she is educated or a hobbyist) with an interest in all things Japan. She has written many historical novels set in Japan, some of which I intend to review! Yet, as “Women of the Pleasure Quarters” is a testament […]

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]]> https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-lesley-downers-women-of-the-pleasure-quarters/feed/ 0 128 Review of Liza Dalby’s Geisha https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-liza-dalbys-geisha/ https://notoriouslyboring.dk/review-of-liza-dalbys-geisha/#respond Mon, 15 May 2023 12:11:41 +0000 https://notoriouslyboring.dk/?p=80 Overall Accessibility Fun Reliability Liza Dalby is an American anthropologist, specializing in Japan and its culture. She has published several books on the topic, including historical fiction. The part of Dalby’s life we are mostly interested in for the purposes of this review is her time as a geisha apprentice. In 1975 Dalby went to […]

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