March daffodils to the side of my house (close up) Dear friends and readers, Yesterday I had to expend a goodly sum to a group of workers (acting with alacrity to obey their boss), the man who owns Residential Lawn Management, to cut my grass, ground down the hedge in front of my house, hand-cut [...]
Archive for the ‘Autobiographical’ Category
Museum of Modern Art: another way to house ourselves & get to one another
Posted in 20th century culture, Autobiographical, modern art, museums, politics, Travel Writing, tagged 21st century lifestyle, cars, travel, vacation on April 3, 2012 | 5 Comments »
South Central ASECS Conference: at Asheville
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 18th century poetry, 18thcentury actresses, actresses, America 18thcentury, Ann Radcliffe, Austen, Autobiographical, conference report, Conferences, feminism, museums, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, Regency Romantic literature, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged 18thc conference, aphra behn, heroine's text on March 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, Hitherto I’ve put all my conference reports and news about my papers on this blog. Since the beginning of this year when I created a new blog just for Austen and 18th century studies and women writers, I decided that my reports of 18th century conferences, papers and Austen should logically [...]
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 [...]
“New” hook up culture another name for “old” casual encounter
Posted in 18th century, 19th century novels, 20th century culture, Autobiographical, feminism, rape on October 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) and Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) on their first night together: he’s lying about Darcy at the dinner, and later they have sex (Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2001) “New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large” — John Milton “the progress of reformation is gradual and silent, as the extension of evening shadows; [...]
Emma Donoghue’s Passions Between Women: seeing what was there but I never saw before
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Austen, Autobiographical, biography, feminism, French culture, later 17th century, novels of sensibility, women's art, tagged heroine's text, tipping the velvet on October 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Miss Eleanor Lavish (Sinead Cusack) from Forster’s Room with a View (Davies’s film) Dear friends, This is probably my third blog on Donoghue’s Passions between Women, maybe the fourth in which I’ve mentioned the book. I wrote about it to suggest that Jane Austen, her sister, Martha Lloyd, and Anne Sharp all show a pattern [...]
Capital Fringe Festival: Pandora, a continually slightly wacky Tragical-Comical Greek Romp
Posted in 20th century culture, Autobiographical, museums, Music, Plays, Seasonal, tagged Capitol Fringe, folk-like festivals, Impressionable players, Pandora on July 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Pandora (Madeline Whiting) — one of the Impressionable Players Dear friends and readers, The Capital Fringe Festival — 3 weeks of plays, concerts, events of all cultural sorts — has begun, and we went to the first of six events we’ve chosen for ourselves. It was truly delightful and I recommend even hurrying out to [...]
Two day New York interlude: windows & walks
Posted in 20th century culture, Autobiographical, Seasonal, Travel Writing, visual art, tagged Central Park, Frederick Wisemen on May 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Leon Cogniet (1794-1880), The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome (1817) Dear friends and readers, The Admiral (aka Jim) and I returned this afternoon from a two day interlude in NYC of nearly non-stop delightful (really) visits and talk with friends, a birthday party, walking in Manhattan and Central Park (whenever it [...]
Spring break: Seasonal Moment
Posted in Austen, Autobiographical, Poldark, Seasonal, women's poetry, tagged Ingeborg Bachmann, Randall Jarrell on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Demelza goes fishing to provide food (1975-76 Poldark, Episode 11) Dear Friends and Fellow Readers, GMU’s spring break is upon us, so I’ve decided to write a blog about where I am in my life just now. Seasonal taking-stock. A while back the Admiral and I decided we would not go to the 18th century [...]
She had seated herself again … for life, as it were
Posted in Autobiographical, Seasonal, teaching on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Frank Currituck Benson 186201951), Currituck Marshes, North Carolina (1926) Dear friends and readers, A brief seasonal blog: tonight in Alexandria we are experiencing the kind of cold that threatens the life of anyone who has to spend the night out in it. I did finish and sent off my paper on the film adaptations of [...]
Doing Christmas & Snow Reveries
Posted in Autobiographical, cats, Seasonal, tagged fiber optic penguin on December 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Colin, my fiber optic penguin Dear friends and readers, Some people my age have grandchildren, others have great-nieces and nephews: I have two cats and a fiber optic penguin which lights up in a glittery way when I plug him in. I gave him the name I would have given a son had I had [...]
