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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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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 [...]

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Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, pen-name Scholem Aleichem (1859-1916) Dear friends and readers, Izzy and I went to see Scholem Aleichem, or, Laughing in the Darkness late Sunday afternoon. Bob (on Trollope19thCStudies) had recommended it a couple of weeks ago now. So now I’ll repeat the recommendation: it’s a fine film, one of the best I’ve seen [...]

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The picture gracing the cover of Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women Writers, 1872-1926, edd. Catherine Lundie Dear friends and readers, I continue my tales of my time at this summer’s Sharp conference. I here cover three sessions, two on the first Friday afternoon and the first of four all day Saturday. My topics [...]

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          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, [...]

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Catherine and Tom Cookson, later in life writing together Lichfield Cathedrale, a drawing by Catherine who during WW2 became a commercial artist Dear friends and readers, Having embarked on my summer project to read historical novels, popular, post-colonial, romance, time-traveling, rewritten (and all about them), I quickly came across the name of Catherine Cookson as [...]

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Ralph Fiennes as Duke telling the Duchess he does not make deals; why should he? Keira Knightley as the powerless stunned wife listening (The Duchess) Dear friends and readers, I’ve returned to my movie studying project (right now I’m watching films and making notes towards a revision of a chapter on Andrew Davies and the [...]

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Catherine Hogarth Dickens, a photo of her later in life Dear friends and readers, Last week I finished reading Lilian Nayder’s The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth. Were it to be read widely, its content genuinely taken in and disseminated, the book has the potential to alter the common perception of Catherine Hogarth [...]

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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 [...]

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Henry James, a photo (1897) This is not the effete young man, or the tired weary old guarded bland one, but an imposing solid guy, distinctive, intense, modern looking too without being (as he is in another) crumpled. Look at the powerful thigh, the stub of a cigar and flat cap. Dear friends and readers, [...]

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