Robert Fripp’s website Dear readers and friends, I am honored and delighted to have a guest blogger today. Robert Fripp, the author of Dark Sovereign, a thoroughly researched play that does justice to Richard III. Robert came across my blog-review of the WSC’s production of Richard III: WSC Richard III: a parable about politicians. He [...]
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Richard III: Receiving emergency care after mauling by Shakespeare — by Robert Fripp
Posted in 17th century, biography, book history, Costume drama, European Renaissance, historical fiction, history play, Plays, political novels/films, politics, Renaissance, romance, satire, Theater, Wm Shakespeare, tagged history, libya, Renaissance history, Robert Fripp on March 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Linda Peterson’s Traditions of Women’s Autobiography
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, Anne Bronte, Austen, biography, Elizabeth Gaskell, Foremother Poetry, Life Writing, Margaret Oliphant, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, women's memoirs, women's poetry, women's art, tagged george anne bellamy, george eliot, Harriet Martineau, jane eyre, julia kavanagh, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Robinson, mary smith on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret-room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, [...]
Foremother Poet: Anne Wharton (1659-85)
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, biography, feminism, Foremother Poetry, later 17th century, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Anne Finch, aphra behn, Germaine Greer, John Wilmot on March 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768), London, Whitehall and the Privy Gardens from Richmond House (1747) Dear friends and readers, A fifth foremother poet. In Slipshod Sibyls: Recognition and Rejection and the Woman Poet, Germaine Greer’s moving “Rochester’s Niece” on the life and poetry of Anne Wharton reveals a brilliant young woman poet whose life was brief and [...]
