Idle Rambling -- Intel, AMD, Inflation -- February 12, 2025

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Inflation: I sure hope this "inflation thing" lasts another two months. Stocks are on sale and February and March, every year, are my best two dividend months for the year. And all dividends are re-invested. 

INTC: Intel is up 4% today. Whoo-hoo!

AMD:

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The Book Page

I read this book -- or at least parts of it, can't remember how much I read -- it was one of several Brontë biographies. I've been to the Brontë Museum in Haworth. Time to get it back out and look at it again. Purely serendipity that I stumbled across this book again. 

From an earlier post: 1994 biography, The Brontës by Juliet Barker.  Great reference book; should be the last biography of the Brontës – unless something new in the Brontë archives turns up.  The author suggests that Wuthering Heights follows Rob Roy too closely to be a coincidence. (April 21, 2007).

Emily Brontë: 1818 - 1848. Dies well before the US Civil War.

Elizabeth Gaskell: 1810 - 1865. Died during the last year of the US Civil War. Was eight years older than Emily Brontë.

Jane Austen: 1775 - 1817. Was alive during the global war of 1812.

Fifteen famous women writers in history, link here. In order, listed:

• Jane Austen: 1775 - 1817. Brilliant, the trailblazer.
  
• Mary Shelley: 1797 - 1851. Right place at right time.
  
• Emily Brontë: 1818 - 1848. One of three contemporaries.
  
• Charlotte Brontë: 1816 - 1855. One of three contemporaries.
• Louisa May Alcott: 1832 - 1888. One of three contemporaries. Good but not great. 
• Gertrude Stein: 1874 - 1946. Famous for being famous. Brilliant.
  
• Virginia Woolf: 1882 - 1941. Most famous for being famous.
  
• Agatha Christie: 1890 - 1976. Does not interest me.
  
• Harper Lee: 1926 - 2016. Does not interest me.
  

Of note:

• six more authors listed; none of which interest me yet; all from the 20th century.
  
• interestingly, Harriet Beecher Stowe not listed (but with just one influential book, probably appropriate not to be on that list)
• but most interesting, George Elliott was not on the list, 1819 - 1880. A contemporary of the Brontës.
  

Brontës (the first of the 19th century Yorkshire women authors:  Brontës, Austen, George Eliot)
        a.  Much preparation [prepared myself well before reading the Brontës]
        b.  Re-read Wuthering Heights, Cliff’s Notes, Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Brontë; Jane Eyre, Cliff Notes
        c.  The 19th Century Female Authors:  represents the “renaissance in female writing, see The Madwoman in the Attic by SM Gilbert and SM Gubar
        d.  1994 biography, The Brontës by Juliet Barker.  Great reference book; should be the last biography of the Brontës – unless something new in the Brontë archives turns up.  The author suggests that Wuthering Heights follows Rob Roy too closely to be a coincidence. (April 21, 2007)

From The Brontës: