Beth Hardiman, from Tamara Drewe Alexandra, from The Night Bookmobile Dear friends and readers, A couple of years ago now I became aware of how graphic novels have grown up; they are no longer fancied up comic books; the art and words can be as complex and moving as many a sheer verbal longer novel. [...]
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Graphic Novels: Audrey Niffenegger, Posy Simmonds among other treasures
Posted in book history, comic poetry, girls books, novels of sensibility, romance, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged Audrey Niffenegger, elizabeth gaskell, Gemma Bovary, graphic novels, Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe on January 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Capriccio: The pleasures of art as standing in for hope
Posted in 18th century, 20th century culture, Austen, comic poetry, Music, opera, painting, Theater, tom stoppard, women's art, tagged Moliere, renee fleming, richard strauss, the Met on April 26, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Renee Fleming as the Countess bowing before the audience after the opera was over: we see a wide portion of the whole set from on high Dear friends and readers, Before too much time goes by, I want to praise and recommend going to see the Met’s production of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio. The Admiral, Izzy [...]
Foremother Poet: Elizabeth Hands (fl 1789)
Posted in 18th century, comic poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, historical fiction, Poetry, political novels/films, satire, women's memoirs, women's art, tagged foremother poet, Paula Feldman on April 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Henry Robert Morland, A (Later) 18th century female servant Dear friends and readers, As the anthology of Scottish woman poets I want to use for blogs on their poetry has not yet arrived, I’ve decided to blog about another poet about whom little is known, but whose poetry is felicitious. (It’s not hard to find [...]
