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 Palmer Ada Palmer Ada Palmer is an American historian and writer and winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her first novel "Too Like the Lightning" was published in May 2016. The work has been well received by critics and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The daughter of computer engineer Douglas Palmer and artist Laura Higgins Palmer, Ada grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. Following her undergraduate education, Ada Palmer obtained a doctorate at Harvard University. Following a stint at Texas A&M, Palmer began teaching at the University of Chicago. As a