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 [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Film adaptations of Anthony Trollope’s novels; A proposal to help create interest in Him
Posted in Movies, Trollope, tagged classic movies, mini-series, pallisers on May 31, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Talk of the Town: forever unforgettable
Posted in Movies, ronald colman on May 27, 2009 | 10 Comments »
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, [...]
A Passionate Sisterhood: Women of the Wordsworth Circle by Kathleen Jones
Posted in 18th century, Poetry, Regency Romantic literature, women's art on May 25, 2009 | 13 Comments »
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 [...]
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
Posted in 18th century, Plays on May 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
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 [...]
Music concert: Haydn & 6 18th century women composers
Posted in 18th century, Music, women's art on May 21, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
A few books to begin with
Posted in gothic, novels of sensibility, women's art on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Rescue & Retrieval
Posted in Austen, conference report, Conferences, Travel Writing, Trollope, women's art on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A sequel to Ellen and Jim Have a Blog, Too.
Posted in About this blog on May 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
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 [...]
