I am glad that I have ended my revisal of this dreadful scene. It is not to be endured — Samuel Johnson, Othello [Desdemona. But half an hour! Othello. Being done, there is no pause. Des. But while I say one prayer! Oth. It is too late. Smothers her.] I was impressed for the ten [...]
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Scholem Aleichem, or, Laughing in the Darkness
Posted in 20th century culture, biography, Edith Wharton, film studies, gothic, Life Writing, men's memoirs, museums, politics, teaching, Theater, tagged Identity politics on August 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Linda Peterson’s Traditions of Women’s Autobiography
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, Anne Bronte, Austen, biography, Elizabeth Gaskell, Foremother Poetry, Life Writing, Margaret Oliphant, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, women's memoirs, women's poetry, women's art, tagged george anne bellamy, george eliot, Harriet Martineau, jane eyre, julia kavanagh, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Robinson, mary smith on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
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 [...]
