The IHT published an obituary of a woman believed to be the last person to be fluent in a rare script used for secret communication among women in Hunan Province: “The script, Nushu, represents the language spoken in Jiangyong Prefecture in southern Hunan. Women, who were denied education for many centuries, used it to share feelings, including fears about arranged marriages, husbands and, of course, mothers-in-law.”
Ellen Sander has also blogged a number of background articles about the language.
