Some Technical Details for Orr's Analysis

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 - 08:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project I must confess that I am a methodology nerd. When I'm reading a historian's work, I love to hear all the details of how they're approaching the material, how they're interpreting it, and how they're presenting it. In my own nonfiction reading, I sometimes feel that this matter overwhelms the meaningful content of what I'm writing about. But I have one adage that I hold to, both in my own research and when teaching others, which is: "if you don't know how you know something, then you don't really know it." Given the firehose of online factoids that we are constantly inundated with, this is a good principle to keep in mind. How much of what we receive online is something we actually "know" by this standard? Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #564e Orr 2006 A Sojourn in Paris - Representing Anne in Paris About LHMP Full citation: Orr, Dannielle. 2006. A Sojourn in Paris 1824-25: Sex and Sociability in the Manuscript…