Our books, dear Book Browser, are a comfort, a presence, a diary of our lives. What more can we say? (Carol Shields, Swann) Mary Cassat, Modern Women (mural) for Women’s Building Mary Cassatt, detail of mural as a painting Dear friends and readers, Some may remember that I reported on a lecture and book I [...]
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In which I tell of a disappointment and how I’m overcoming it: Radcliffe replaces Trollope
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, book illustration, Conferences, Film adaptations, Italian culture, novels of sensibility, Trollope, visual art, tagged Battaglia, picturesque art on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“‘Is it the poorhouse, yer honor?’”, Rod Walter’s illustrations: Storytelling through Pictures for Castle Richmond or? Christian Wilhelm Dietrich (1712-74), Landscape with Bridge Gentle readers, good friends, I’m afraid I have another rejection from the Victorian &/or Trollope academic scholars to tell about. My proposal for a coming NVSA conference in spring 2001, a highly [...]
Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels
Posted in 19th century novels, Andrew Davies, book illustration, conference report, Conferences, Film adaptations, Trollope, tagged Anthony Trollope, HKHWR, pallisers, TTWWLN on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Montague (Cilian Murphy) and Mrs Hurtle (Mirando Otto) at Lowestoffe based on one of the original illustrations (2001 BBC/WGGH The Way We Live Now, script Andrew Davies) Dear Friends and Readers, More than five years after we had our first Trollope conference in 25 years (!); thirteen months after sending off my review of [...]
Back to Trollope: A proposal on the story-telling art of the original illustrations
Posted in 19th century novels, Andrew Davies, book illustration, Charles Dickens, Conferences, Elizabeth Gaskell, Film adaptations, Trollope, tagged Bleak House, HKHWR, Little Dorrit on August 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Carrie Brattle, “castaway,” her hands appealing to someone inside a closed window (from The Vicar of Bullhampton, vignette by Henry Woods) Dear friends and readers, A couple of months ago I saw a Call for Papers on Patrick Leary’s Victoria listserv for a Northeast Victoria Society Association (NVSA) conference to be held at Columbia University, [...]
Books in art and science, Sharp (2): the role of covers, periodicals (Romantic era); Mudie’s non-English and Murray’s travel books
Posted in 20th century culture, Austen, biography, book history, book illustration, conference report, Conferences, French novels, gothic, Regency Romantic literature, Travel Writing, women's art, tagged John Murray, julia kavanagh, monthly periodicals, Mudies Library on July 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Books in art and science, Sharp (1):the 1st folio; science books as school; Nazi non-censorship! and dire predictions
Posted in 20th century culture, book history, book illustration, conference report, Conferences, museums, political novels/films, politics, Trollope, tagged First folio, folger, Llbrary of congress, Shaprp conference on July 19, 2011 | 7 Comments »
‘”That might do”‘ (John Everett Millais’s illustration for a satiric scene in Anthony Trollope’s The Small House at Allington Thomas Bewick’s History of Birds Dear friends and readers, I’ve just spent a pleasant and stimulating 3 and 1/2 days at a Sharp conference held in Washington, D.C. first at the National Library of Medicine (Maryland), [...]
