Dear friends and readers, What do you mean summer’s here? It’s the beginning of May. Well, arguably from the point of view of weather, here in Northern Virginia we have two seasons: the cold (or maybe it would be more accurate nowadays to say the mostly cool and chilly) where days are short, and the [...]
Archive for the ‘George Eliot’ Category
Summer’s here: my past year’s listening & new routs
Posted in About this blog, Anne Bronte, Audio books, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, teaching, Trollope, tagged classic movies, elizabeth gaskell, george eliot, online reading, Poldark, reading-as-life, seasonal on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Maureen Corrignan’s Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading & Stevie Smith on the 12 Dancing Princesses
Posted in 20th century culture, American literature, feminism, George Eliot, girls books, gothic, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, novels of sensibility, teaching, Winston Graham, women's novels, women's art, tagged Bobbie Ann Mason, Girl Sleith, heroine's text, jane eyre, Little Women, Maureen Corrigan, portrait of a lady, Stevie Smith on April 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Woman reading, artist or photographer unknown Dear friends and readers, The title may be off-putting, but Corrigan’s book is an inspiriting book to read in the dark near-dawn hours of a spring into summer morning, one intended to keep the reader company in her journeys with others through books. Corrigan writes of reading as intense [...]
Foremother Poet: George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans Lewes) (1818-80)
Posted in 19th century novels, 19th century poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, George Eliot, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, tagged George Henry Lewes, Rosemarie Bodenheimer on May 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In France alone woman has had a vital influence on the development of literature; in France alone the mind of woman has passed like an electric current through the language . . . (George Eliot, “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé”) George Eliot, 16 March 1877, Sketch by Princess Louise Dear friends and readers, I’m [...]
Adoption stories
Posted in 20th century culture, feminism, George Eliot, politics, women's memoirs, tagged Silas marner on May 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Barbara Melosh’s Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption Dear friends and readers, Last and this month on Wompo appeared a URL to a new blog website where poets and writers are invited to tell the reality of their experiences of adoption, whether as the mother who gave up her baby (babies), the child [...]
