@stellaluce333 I wasn’t saying that the claricles just appeared or were not in someways born, but was proposing a reason for the Doctor not remembering her  encountering him especially when on at least one occasion she had directly interacted with him. Much like when at the end of the day of the doctor the Wardoc sadly states that he won’t…[Read more]

@stellaluce333 Most fiction of that time had central female characters regardless of the authors gender though as there was a high percentage of female writers a lot of fiction is very much written from a female perspective. Dickens was however in many respects a progressive particularly in regards to social commentary. His works did draw public…[Read more]