Lucie Cousturier, Self Portrait (1919) “It is very early in the morning … The address provided by a young Ouolof who had been my pupil in France, led me to the extremity of the craftsmen’s precinct … The yard of sizable dimension that I entered contained only one tree, slightly bigger than our orange tree, [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Lucie Cousturier (1870/8-1925), artist, memoirist, a woman just outside the loops of respectability
Posted in feminism, French culture, painting, women's art on August 31, 2009 | 12 Comments »
La Nuit de Varennes: a feel of serendipitous life
Posted in 18th century, Film adaptations, French culture, French novels, political novels/films on August 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The Puppet show (“all the way from Venice”) of “Nuovo Mondo”, the film’s original title) Dear Friends, Last night I finally managed to see once again while I was wide awake the brilliant and feelingly alive La Nuit de Varennes, directed by Ettore Scola, written by him and Sergio Armidei (to whom the film is [...]
Pallisers 11:22: The difficulties of marriage, three transcripts, with a little about Venice
Posted in 19th century novels, Film adaptations, political novels/films, romance, Trollope, tagged pallisers, sheila ruskin, simon raven, stuart wilson on August 18, 2009 | 10 Comments »
The Duchess, Silverbridge, Tregear and Lady Mary in a gondola, seen from a distance Dear Friends, I’ve written about Pallisers 9:18 – 10:21 (including the Lady Rosina de Courcy) of the 1974 BBC Pallisers on this blog thus far. (For 1:1 – 8:17 see previous blog.) I’ve another one to add tonight: 11:22. The power [...]
Julie & Julia: from email to blogging
Posted in feminism, Film adaptations, Movies, romance, women's art, womens' films, tagged julia child, meryl streep, nora ephron on August 12, 2009 | 28 Comments »
Amy Adams as Julie blogging about cooking Dear Friends, Isobel and I took such pleasure in seeing Nora Ephron’s latest movie, Julie & Julia, that I thought I would blog about it, even if recommending it is quite unnecessary as I’ve gathered ours is such a common reaction, that this movie is something of a [...]
Austen’s Northanger Abbey in French; what translations tell us
Posted in Austen, French novels, gothic, translation art, tagged Feneon, Luce, Seurat on August 6, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Catherine gets to walk on Beechen Cliff with her friends, Henry and Eleanor Tilney (’07 Northanger Abbey) Dear Friends, As I’ve told the people at Reveries under the Sign of Austen, I’ve been asked to write a short piece for an online magazine about Austen in translation and I’ve been reading Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, [...]
Margaret Oliphant: Phoebe Junior among others
Posted in 19th century novels, feminism, Margaret Oliphant, Trollope, women's novels, tagged Scots novels, Walter Scott on August 3, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) Dear Friends, For a few weeks now I’ve been sustained by two books, sometimes reading them at night, sometimes in the car as I sit next to Jim while he drives. One, Margaret Drabble’s The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws, I’ve written about on Reveries under the Sign [...]
