“The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise. Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody” Working Class WriterForgotten Women WritersLost Voices Author:Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
“In her essay "Venus in Two Acts,” on the dearth of contemporaneous African accounts of slavery, Saidiya Hartman talks about the "violence of the archive.’’ This concept---also called “archival silence”---illustrates a difficult truth: sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective histories.” Lost VoicesSilenced Women Book:In the Dream House Source: In the Dream House