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Archive for May, 2009

Anthony Trollope by Samuel Laurence, 1864 Dear Friends, It’s time I started posting once again about the 1974 BBC 26 part film adaptation of Trollope’s six Palliser or Parliamentary novels, written by Simon Raven. The last time I posted I wrote an essay on Anthony Trollope as a political novelist and how the Palliser films [...]

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Dear Friends, I discovered today that Jim and I neglected to include a movie review I wrote for “Ellen and Jim have a blog, too:” Columbia’s irreplaceable The Talk of the Town, 1942, directed & produced by George Stevens, screenplay Sidney Harmon; starring Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur (supporting cast: Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, [...]

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Dear Friends, Dove Cottage, recent photo Kathleen Jones’s A Passionate Sisterhood has been my comfort and rivetting book to read in the evening over the past two weeks. I was sorry when it came to an end. Its great achievement is to free representations of women’s lives from the hegemony of men’s stories. She was [...]

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Nicholas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego Dear friends, Earlier this month Jim, I, and Isobel went to see a fine performance at the Shakespeare Folger Theatre in DC of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. I was by the end so moved and absorbed intellectually, and amused too, that I took down the play from our shelves and [...]

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Dear friends, The cultural forum of the Austrian embassy has come alive again these days: it’s Haydn’s hundredth birthday and there are (free) concerts, lectures and new art exhibit. The exhibit lines the walls of the lovely hall where the concerts are performed: the pictures are revealing and accompanied with such thorough explanations. You can [...]

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Dear Friends, It’s time to start writing for this space. I begin with transposing thoughts and analysis of three books I read recently which meant much to me. Three weeks ago now, most of this reading late at night or in the early morning hours (watching the pre-dawn blue show up in the sky), I [...]

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Dear Friends, Yesterday Jim and I managed to rescue and retrieve all those blogs from “Ellen and Jim have a blog, too,” which were about the topics I will be exploring on this blog. We have put them in several places: on my website front page, and in the Austen, Trollope, and Clarissa regions. The [...]

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Dear Friends, Today Jim and I continue our previous blog on more modern impersonal software (kept by someone else).   If you google for “Ellen and Jim have a blog, too,” you may read of the sad demise of our previous blog. All is not lost as you will read there, and here we will continues [...]

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