Olivia Williams as Jane Austen, writing Emma (Miss Austen Regrets, Ch 3) Dear friends and readers, This is the second of two conference reports on the ASECS conference I attended this past spring. You have ahead of you brief records of a session on “The Eighteenth Century on Film,” and of the titles of the [...]
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ASECS, Albuquerque: Film Studies/Avoiding Erasure of Women’s Literary History/Race a cultural not biological construct/self-parodying theater
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Austen, Fanny Burney, feminism, Film adaptations, film studies, political novels/films, Theater, women's memoirs, tagged race theory on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Julia Kavanagh: disabled 19th century woman of letters
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, Austen, disability issues, Disabilty studies, Fanny Burney, feminism, Foremother Poetry, French culture, French novels, Life Writing, Travel Writing, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged Amelia Opie, aphra behn, germaine de stael, julia kavanagh, julie lespinasse, madame de layfayette, madame roland, maria edgeworth, sarah fielding, scudery on April 1, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, On the last day of the Christmas MLA conference this past Xmas, I managed to buy for myself Eileen Fauset’s excellent literary biography of Julia Kavanagh, a 19th century Irish woman of letters: The Politics of Writing. Fauset’s biography shows Kavanagh to have been a courageous woman, good novelist, and significant [...]
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: papers on women poets, novelists, diarists, playwrights
Posted in 18th century, 19th century novels, conference report, Fanny Burney, novels of sensibility, Regency Romantic literature, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged Anne Finch, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Joanna Baillie, Mary Brunton on November 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Angelica Kauffman (171401807), The Muse of Composition Dear Friends, This is my fifth report on the smallish conference of 18th century scholars held at Bethelehem, Pennsylvania. It consists of reports on papers from three panels: on Saturday, “Bibliography, Textual Studies and Book History, Part I” (8:30-10:00 am), “Foreign Intelligences” (2:00-3:30 pm), and “Late 18th century [...]
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: The Seductive Menace, Popery (more gothics)
Posted in 18th century, conference report, Fanny Burney, Movies, novels of sensibility, tagged Amelia Opie, Monk Lewis on October 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Anna (Hermione Norris) places flowers on Clarissa’s grave, Mr Hickman (Jon Sotherton) standing by (1991 BBC Clarissa) Dear Friends, Here is the second panel I went to at the recent conference. The second period on Friday, from 10:15 to 11:45, offered what turned out to be an excellent set of papers on “The Seductive Menace: [...]
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: Fanny Burney D’Arblay’s Memoirs of Dr Burney as the autobiography of an older woman; we perform The Witlings
Posted in 18th century, Austen, conference report, Fanny Burney, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art on October 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Frances d’Arblay (Fanny Burney), 1811, artist unknown Dear Friends, Jim and I returned from the East Central ASECS at Bethlehem this past Sunday, having had a rejuvenating time. We met old friends, made some new ones, I heard some (to me) wonderfully interesting papers and took part in lively sessions, we walked about Bethlehem, and [...]
