Elizabeth Anscombe wrote of birth control and morality.

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, the Catholic philosopher whose work on subjects from Aristotelian ethics to the perils of birth control is enjoying a renaissance, died 10 years ago this week in England, at 81. And obituary writers remembered what she wore.

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Elizabeth Anscombe wrote of birth control and morality.

The Telegraph wrote, “Clad in leopard-skin trousers and a leather jacket, she might sit in silence for minutes on end, puffing on a cigar, after one of her students had finished reading out an essay.”

And The Guardian : “For a time she sported a monocle, and had a trick of raising her eyebrows and letting it fall on her ample bosom, which somehow made her yet more daunting.”

Read remainder at NYTs, here...