Elizabeth Carter (idealized) by Katherine Read (1762) Dear friends and readers, I’m several days late for this week’s foremother poet. First I couldn’t make up my mind which poet to write about, and then I lost heart. But tonight inspirited by Elizabeth Carter’s “A Dialogue,” in love with her picture from Elizabeth Eger and Lucy [...]
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Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)
Posted in 18th century, feminism, Foremother Poetry, Poetry, Samuel Richardson, women's poetry, women's art on May 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels (2)
Posted in 19th century novels, conference report, Conferences, political novels/films, Samuel Richardson on October 25, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Anthony Trollope, a photo from the 1870s Dear friends, readers and lovers of Trollope, Here am I back again for the second time to provide summaries and evaluations of the 14 essays printed by Deborah Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Reginia Gagnier (eds): The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels., a selection from a Trollope [...]
How much our houses can mean: putting away one’s life, what was once close to hand, near to heart
Posted in Autobiographical, cats, Facebook, library books, Samuel Richardson, women's poetry, tagged clarissa, Our house on September 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. — R. L. Stevenson Our house, 1984 (Jim’s mother, me, two daughters): it has not changed all that much Our backyard: you see Izzy’s windows last summer Dear [...]
The Duke & Phineas & Caroline & Clary: praise for & revamping website
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, Film adaptations, film studies, French novels, gothic, novels of sensibility, romance, Samuel Richardson, Trollope, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged caroline de lichfield, Isabelle de Montolieu, madame max, pallisers, phineas finn, plantagenet palliser, Richardson's Clarissa on August 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Duke of Omnium (Philip Latham) and Phineas (Donal McCann) talking of their political ideals (12:24 1974 Pallisers) Dear friends and readers, I’m taking two days out between preparing and putting new materials for teaching “Exploring the Gothic” as well as writing on the natural sciences and technology (particularly in the field of medicine (e.g, “Patients [...]
A time away: Interior (The Rape) by Degas
Posted in 18th century, 20th century culture, feminism, Samuel Richardson, womens' films on March 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Lovelace’s (Sean Bean) first attempt to rape Clarissa (Saskia Wickham) (1991 BBC Clarissa) Dear friends and readers, The Admiral and I will be gone for a few days, to Albuquerque, New Mexico (we’ll see Santa Fe!), where there is an 18th century conference at which I’ll give my paper-talk, “What right have you to detain [...]
Another year in reading
Posted in 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Anne Bronte, henry james, Samuel Richardson, women's novels, women's art, womens' films, tagged George Meredith, Iris Origo, Margaret Drabble, mary cassatt on January 5, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), The Cup of Tea (1879) Again Cassatt, again her sister, Lydia, this time At the Tapestry Loom (1881) (we went to a wonderful show and lecture on her art at the National Women’s Museum of Art in DC this year) Dear Readers and friends, Over on Reveries under the Sign of Austen, [...]
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: Marriage and family; another look at the rise of the novel
Posted in 18th century, conference report, feminism, Samuel Richardson, women's novels, tagged education, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, May Hays, Monk Lewis on November 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845), Painter in Her Studio (1796): beautiful, luminous and witty, it’s a family portrait Dear Friends, Yet another conference report of the Eastern Region 18th century panels. There were four papers in the panel on Marriage and the Family (Friday, 2:45-4:15), but since I was not able to understand all four (one on [...]
