Shed Sheds", which argues that a "place of retreat" is a "male necessity" which provides men with solace, especially during their retirement. In contrast, in the novel "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons, Aunt Ada Doom saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and retreated to her bed for half a century. To woodshed, or 'shed, in jazz jargon, is "to shut oneself up, away from the world, and practice long and hard, as in 'going to the woodshed'." The word is recorded in English since 1481, as "shadde", possibly a variant of shade. The word shade comes from the Old English
Ada Gilmore Ada Gilmore Ada Gilmore (later Ada Gilmore Chaffee, 1883–1955) was an American watercolorist and printmaker, one of the Provincetown Printers. Gilmore was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As a pre-teen, she and her three siblings became orphaned, and she moved to Belfast, Ireland, to live with an aunt. She was a student at the Belfast School of Art and then at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1906 to 1912, under the tutelage of Robert Henri. There, she and her long-time companion Mildred McMillen first met. After completing their studies, Gilmore and McMillen moved to Long Island and from there to