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Correction Corner: In Which Mija Is Caught Loitering Near the Classic Editor

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A Special Report:

It has come to the attention of the Headmistress, the Prefects, the Archive Committee, and several impatient girls in the back row that The Seduction of Anne Kelley, Part Three has not yet appeared. This despite Part Two having been posted — <looks at calendar, checks againr> — on February 6.

Shocking.

The delay does not appear to be the result of Miss Kelley having escaped. Nor is there evidence that Gwen has injured her wrist, mislaid her fountain pen, or fallen victim to a global shortage of green ink, though one can never be too careful with Old Girls and their silences.

The cause is, regrettably, of a more shameful and contemporary nature: WordPress has been Difficult.

More precisely, the Classic Editor, which has long indulged Mija’s habit of pasting in plain text and then fussing over the formatting afterwards like a girl trying to get her tie straight after morning prayers, has lately stopped behaving itself. The editor toolbar no longer seems properly able to manage the Google fonts used for the Inez letters and documents. Since those fonts are not decorative extras but part of how the archive speaks, this is not a small inconvenience. A letter from Anne Kelley ought not look like a memo from a dental office. Gwen de Vries should not be made to write in whatever typographic cardigan WordPress has left lying about.

Mija has, by her own report, investigated. She has poked settings. She’s read advice. She has Tried Things. She has looked sternly at the screen. She’s even been seen to pout. None of this, however, has restored the former order.

All consulted say the obvious solution is for Mija to report promptly to Editor Gutenberg and learn to behave properly with her Blocks.

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Correction Corner #2 – January 12, 2026

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A brief pause at the archive desk for housekeeping, mending, and the occasional discreet pinning back of a hem.

First, handwriting. I have been revisiting earlier entries to make the use of cursive fonts more consistent, and, more importantly, more readable. Lady Gwendolyn and Miss Anne Kelley’s writing now appear in hands that suggest legibility as well as character. Flourish has its place, but Saint Clare’s has never been a school that prized ornament over clarity, except perhaps in the prospectus and certain prize-day speeches.

Second, the forewords and afterwords. I am also tidying these across the MP Visits sequence so they speak to one another more neatly. The School itself is perfectly capable of generating three contradictory accounts of the same event, plus a fourth in pencil that insists the first three never happened. The archive, however, ought to provide at least a stable frame in which to enjoy the confusion.

Third, a practical matter, now happily resolved. Paul, our longstanding and long suffering Stylesheet Beak,1A Beak, as any public school pupil will tell you, may sound like a gentle bird, but is not to be trifled with, particularly where fonts are concerned. has fixed the vexed matter of the comment box, which on some browsers (Safari, I am looking at you) displayed readers’ words in a size apparently intended for smuggling under a blotter, or for writing the Lord’s Prayer on a grain of rice. The situation is now in hand.

Fourth, and this is a correction still in progress, I have been remiss in providing plain-text versions of posts that rely heavily on handwritten fonts. Not all readers find cursive easy, and while Saint Clare’s has a long tradition of expecting girls to decipher one another’s notes at speed (often by torchlight, and often with consequences), the archive should be more accommodating. Plain-text versions will be added going forward, and to earlier posts where possible. Consider it accessibility rather than a collapse in standards.

Finally, a word about illustrations.

Some readers will have noticed a change. Earlier Saint Clare/Inez entries often came with drawings that leaned toward coloured pencil and watercolour, the sort of thing one might expect in a storybook, a school annual, or the margins of a Latin exercise when the mistress’s back is turned. Changes in how image generation now behaves on ChatGPT have made that style increasingly difficult to produce reliably. The results tend, of late, toward the photographic, the over-polished, or the alarmingly literal, which rather defeats the point.

For the time being, I will be relying on simpler artwork and on drawings I already have, with the occasional experiment when circumstances allow. I may yet pull out my coloured pencils in a pinch, but no promises. The point has always been suggestion as much as illustration, and I trust the archive can manage with a little less gloss and a little more imagination.

Thank you, as ever, for your patience, your sharp eyes, and your willingness to notice when the filing system has been quietly adjusted. Corrections, like discipline, work best when administered early and with a steady hand.

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    A Beak, as any public school pupil will tell you, may sound like a gentle bird, but is not to be trifled with, particularly where fonts are concerned.
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