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Dear Edith, When The Love Child (1927) opens, Agatha is 32, a spinster, and lonely. Her mother has just died. Agatha’s life has been a blank, and…… Read more “The creation of the love of all her being”
Tag: England
Edith Olivier
Edith Olivier (Edith Maud Olivier. December 31st, 1872 – May 10th, 1948) was an English writer. Olivier was educated at home by her mother, and later by…… Read more “Edith Olivier”
All the earth beneath him was filled with lamentation
Hi, folks! This is the third post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women – Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by…… Read more “All the earth beneath him was filled with lamentation”
The eye is deceived as well as the heart
Hi, folks! This is the second post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women – Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction…… Read more “The eye is deceived as well as the heart”
The terrible moment of complete illumination
Hi, folks! This is the first post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women – Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by…… Read more “The terrible moment of complete illumination”
Mary Cholmondeley
Mary Cholmondeley (June 8th, 1859 – July 15th, 1925) was an English writer. The third of eight children and the eldest daughter of a clergyman, Cholmondeley was…… Read more “Mary Cholmondeley”
Women’s Prize 2021: Gyasi, Lockwood, Fuller & Doshi
Hi, folks! This is my final post on the books on the Women’s Prize 2021 longlist. Here is part I, if you are interested. On to my reading…… Read more “Women’s Prize 2021: Gyasi, Lockwood, Fuller & Doshi”
They could not face death, quiet, enthroned
Hi, folks! This is the final post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers,…… Read more “They could not face death, quiet, enthroned”
The garden was ablaze with these brilliant scented blossoms
Hi, folks, This is another post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923, ed.…… Read more “The garden was ablaze with these brilliant scented blossoms”
The whisper of distrust soon started
Hi, folks! This is another post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Ground-breaking Female Writers, 1852-1923, ed.…… Read more “The whisper of distrust soon started”
Clemence Housman
Clemence Housman (Clemence Annie Housman. November 23rd, 1861 – December 6th, 1955) was an English writer and illustrator. Her mother died in 1871, when Housman was ten.…… Read more “Clemence Housman”
Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli (pen name of Mary Mackay. May 1st, 1855 –Â April 21st, 1924) was an English writer. Corelli was the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish writer…… Read more “Marie Corelli”
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand
Dear George, Feminist critics were angry with you in the 1970’s, and perhaps some of them still are: your Dorothea remains firmly grounded on the very rules…… Read more “Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand”
Perhaps we don’t always discriminate between sense and nonsense,
Dear George, Yours is an odd Prelude: already in its first paragraph, it refuses to give us an easy key to your Middlemarch (1871-72). It goes on…… Read more “Perhaps we don’t always discriminate between sense and nonsense,”
John Oliver Hobbes
John Oliver Hobbes (pen name of Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie, born Richards. November 3, 1867 – August 13, 1906) was an Anglo-American writer. Hobbes was born in…… Read more “John Oliver Hobbes”
My own books scourge me
Hi, folks! I am kicking off our Season in Middlemarch with a slim biography, packed with illustrations, in case you fancy a brief outline of Eliot’s life.…… Read more “My own books scourge me”
A season in Middlemarch
Hi, folks! This seems to be the season of readalongs for me: I am currently participating (and already behind) in The Old Wives’ Tale Readalong hosted by Rohan…… Read more “A season in Middlemarch”
Being good felt delicious
Dear May, Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) traces the eponymous character’s downfall from a promising child to a nonentity. Our protagonist, Harriett, the only child…… Read more “Being good felt delicious”
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