Dear friends and readers, What do you mean summer’s here? It’s the beginning of May. Well, arguably from the point of view of weather, here in Northern Virginia we have two seasons: the cold (or maybe it would be more accurate nowadays to say the mostly cool and chilly) where days are short, and the [...]
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Summer’s here: my past year’s listening & new routs
Posted in About this blog, Anne Bronte, Audio books, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, teaching, Trollope, tagged classic movies, elizabeth gaskell, george eliot, online reading, Poldark, reading-as-life, seasonal on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Dickens and Sandy Welch’s Our Mutual Friend: A book of a river
Posted in 19th century novels, 19th century poetry, 20th century culture, About this blog, autism, Autobiographical, Charles Dickens, gothic, political novels/films, politics, rape, tagged Our Mutual Friend, Sandy Welch on February 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Filmic rendition in Welch’s movie of the famous opening scenes of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: opening shot of movie; Lizzie (Keeley Hawes) at center; John Harmon (Steven Mackintosh) back from the dead and drowned the last Dear friends and readers, Over the past 10 weeks I’ve been listening to Mil Nicolson (Librivox) read aloud Dickens’s [...]
Two new blogs — or old blogs moved and re-conceived
Posted in About this blog, Andrew Davies, Austen, autism, Seasonal, tagged Aspergers, Helen McNicholl, John Atkinson Grimshaw on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Helen McNicholl (1879-1915), In the Shade of the Tent (1914) Dear friends and readers, I’ve been meaning to tell people who come here that I’ve moved and changed my other blog and invented a third. First, I moved my Reveries under the Sign of Austen to wordpress. This is a more appropriate space, as many [...]
I return to my routs
Posted in About this blog, Austen, Autobiographical, Conferences, gothic on October 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A favorite fall picture: Camille Pissaro (1830-1903), Quai malaquais, Morning Sun (1903) Dear friends who read this blog, I thought I’d say that today I have finished both versions of my paper on the gothic in Northanger Abbey: a 31 minute version called “People that marry can never part:” an intertextual reading of Northanger Abbey” [...]
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 [...]
