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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Winston Graham’ Category
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 »
Serial storytelling; or, the Art of the Season-long mini-series, from Poldark to Downton Abbey
Posted in 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Costume drama, Downton Abbey, Edwardian drama, Film adaptations, film studies, historical fiction, history play, novels of sensibility, Poldark, Winston Graham, tagged Cornwall, Downton Abbey, heroine's text, Poldark on April 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Poldark, Margaret (Diana Berriman) and Ross (Poldark, Season 1, Part 2, Episode 1) Ethel (Amy Nuttal), Mrs Hughes (Phyllis Logan) and Ethel’s baby (Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 6) Dear friends and readers, For a second time I’ve assigned with read with my classes Winston Graham’s Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-178, and it [...]
Winston Graham’s The Walking Stick: Graham’s first disabled heroine
Posted in 20th century culture, disability issues, Disabilty studies, Film adaptations, Poldark, political novels/films, politics, Winston Graham, tagged heroine's text, polio victim on October 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
David Hemmings as Leigh Hartley painting Samantha Eggar as Deborah Dainton (The Walking Stick, 1970) Dear friends and readers, Yes, I’ve read yet another novel by Winston Graham: The Walking Stick (published by Doubleday, 1967). In his Memoirs of a Private Man, Graham says “judged solely by financial criteria, [it was] the most successful novel [...]
Handy list: Winston Graham’s Poldark, Cornwall & other books
Posted in 18th century novels, Film adaptations, historical fiction, mystery-suspense, Poldark, political novels/films, Winston Graham, tagged Cornwall, Poldark on September 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Bronze Age Tomb, Cornwall Gentle readers, I hope I do not try your patience by placing a concise survey of the Poldark series, together with the counterparts of each novel in the mini-series, and a list of fiction and non-fiction by Graham I’ve read thus far, two closely related books by other authors, and two [...]
Winston Graham’s The Little Walls
Posted in 20th century culture, mystery-suspense, novels of sensibility, Winston Graham, tagged Susan Hill, wife abuse on September 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Little Walls, an ancient “red light” district of Amsterdam Dear friends and readers, I’ve gotten into my penultimate phase of my project towards a paper on Winston Graham’s Poldark first 7 novels. I read the plot-design of the first novel, am nearly finished outlining the plot-designs of the next three, and then I can just [...]
Poldark, 2nd season (2:1-4): costume drama as a usable exemplary past
Posted in 18th century, Film adaptations, film studies, historical fiction, Movies, Poldark, Winston Graham, tagged Cornwall, Poldark on August 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Elizabeth (Jill Townsend) gives birth to Valentine: season 2 begins and ends with Elizabeth in childbirth Dear friends and readers, I’ve been reading away towards the paper I intend to write on “Liberty” (in the complicated 18th century sense) in the Poldark novels, which basically has meant finishing re-reading the first seven novels, and will [...]
Winston Graham’s Bella: the last Poldark novel (12, Cornwall 1818-20): bonding with characters
Posted in 18th century novels, 19th century novels, autism, disability issues, Disabilty studies, historical fiction, novels of sensibility, Poldark, political novels/films, Winston Graham, tagged Cornwall on August 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Jeremy Poldark (Ioan Gufford) and Ben Carter (Hans Matheson) rowing into Nampara Cove (1996 Poldark, Stranger from the Sea) Dear friends and readers, It’s been a couple of weeks now since I finished Bella Poldark, the 12th and last of the Poldark novels. Written a year (2002) before Graham died (2003), this book brings the [...]
Winston Graham’s Twisted Sword: Deliver us from swords & curs (Poldark 11, Cornwall 1815)
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Film adaptations, historical fiction, Poldark, political novels/films, Winston Graham, tagged John Bowe, John Keegan, Mel Martin, Napoleon on June 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
John Bowe as Ross Poldark grown older (The Stranger from the Sea, 1996 Poldark Mel Martin as Demelza and Kelly Reilly as Clowance Dear friends and readers, The second to the last Poldark novel did not disappoint me. The epigraph of the novel is from Pslam 22, Verse 20: Deliver my soul from the sword; [...]
Winston Graham’s Cordelia: an independent woman
Posted in 19th century novels, historical fiction, Poldark, political novels/films, romance, Trollope, Winston Graham, tagged King's general, tipping the velvet on June 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Winston Graham’s Cordelia, 1st page, 1949 Doubleday edition Dear friends and readers, A secondary project I’ve been progressing with this spring and summer is reading historical fiction — accompanied by watching film adaptations when there are any. This because I love the genre, for my paper this coming fall for EC/ASECS, and, in the case [...]
