The Duke helping a very sick Duchess (Susan Hampshire) away from the Ruined Priory Dear Friends and readers, After a six month-hiatus, I return to the 1974 BBC Palliser series once again to conclude my study of this magnificent film cycle, 1:1-8:17 on the old blog, and 9:18-2:24 thus far on this. Three films cover [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Pallisers 12:25: The duchess, our heroine’s dying begins; why her daughter and Silverbridge’s fates mean so much to her
Posted in 19th century novels, Film adaptations, henry james, political novels/films, Trollope, Uncategorized, tagged Jeremy Irons, pallisers on April 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Pallisers redux
Posted in 19th century novels, Film adaptations, Trollope, tagged kate nicholls on April 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
10:20, the deep congenial (loving) friendship of Lady Glencora and Madame Max (I originally meant to make this my avatar) Dear friends and readers, I’ve returned to my study of the Palliser films in more earnest than I have done since last November. My first goal is nearly fulfilled: to understand this series for real [...]
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland: what is the allegory about?
Posted in 19th century novels, Costume drama, feminism, Film adaptations, gothic, romance, tagged fantasy, Frances de la Tour, Geraldine James, johnny depp, lewis carroll, Lindsay Duncan on April 13, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Mia Wasikowska as Alice about to cross to wonderland Dear friends and readers, An interlude. Izzy and I went to see Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland on late Saturday afternoon in the Old Town Alexandria theatre second floor auditorium. Lewis Carroll’s semi-child, semi-adult’s tale is a quintessentially Victorian text, and it had just been discussed [...]
“I recommended him to read Corinna” (Austen): Germaine de Stael’s meditative travel novel
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Austen, French culture, French novels, novels of sensibility, women's novels, women's art, tagged corinne, germaine de stael on April 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Lucy Honeychurch looking up at a Florentine church or sculpture, from 2008 Room with a View (Forster’s novel, Andrew Davies version closer than M-I-J) Dear friends and readers, I had planned to write a blog on Germaine de Stael’s Corinne, or Italy because I remembered loving it when we read it on WWTTA (I now [...]
Julia Kavanagh: disabled 19th century woman of letters
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, Austen, disability issues, Disabilty studies, Fanny Burney, feminism, Foremother Poetry, French culture, French novels, Life Writing, Travel Writing, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged Amelia Opie, aphra behn, germaine de stael, julia kavanagh, julie lespinasse, madame de layfayette, madame roland, maria edgeworth, sarah fielding, scudery on April 1, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, On the last day of the Christmas MLA conference this past Xmas, I managed to buy for myself Eileen Fauset’s excellent literary biography of Julia Kavanagh, a 19th century Irish woman of letters: The Politics of Writing. Fauset’s biography shows Kavanagh to have been a courageous woman, good novelist, and significant [...]
