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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Winston Graham’s Bella: the last Poldark novel (12, Cornwall 1818-20): bonding with characters
Posted in 18th century novels, 19th century novels, autism, disability issues, Disabilty studies, historical fiction, novels of sensibility, Poldark, political novels/films, Winston Graham, tagged Cornwall on August 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Jeremy Poldark (Ioan Gufford) and Ben Carter (Hans Matheson) rowing into Nampara Cove (1996 Poldark, Stranger from the Sea) Dear friends and readers, It’s been a couple of weeks now since I finished Bella Poldark, the 12th and last of the Poldark novels. Written a year (2002) before Graham died (2003), this book brings the [...]
