"I don't know how many rooms we have."

Six Things

Happy Eclipse!

1. Vogue’s Wine Diet (1977).

The diet first appeared in Helen Gurley Brown’s 1962 Sex and the Single Girl.

On a related note, I liked Joanna Scutt’s The Extra Woman, a biography of another Vogue writer, Majorie Hillis, who wrote Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman, a radical self-help book in 1936.

2. This took a turn.

Letter to the Editor of the Medical Record, Volume 54, Issue.13. (September 24, 1989).

3. Chomp the rich.

My favorite lines from this article on the Marchioness of Cholmondeley's English home.

• "I don't know how many rooms we have."

• "I hate waste." See above.

• Sustainable living: Shop your attic to "find old curtains and things that can be given a new lease of life. [Lady Cholmondeley discovered five panels of the original chinoiserie wallpaper hanging in The Cabinet Room]."

• I mean, this is ridiculous but sounds awesome. "The boys also love the main arcade – the entrance hall – and use it as a skateboarding and roller skating arena. It has columns to weave between and they get up quite a speed."

• “Formerly a model and political researcher.” She briefly had an agent and spent six months working for a politician.

4. Mark your calendars and register for my next virtual fellowship talk at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

5. Not a single biography on this list of biographies.

6. Who, me?!