Watteau, The Serenade Day 8/10 of books that influenced me, had a discernible impact. (For Day 7/10, Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale). When I was around 17 or 18 years old, I was in a used bookstore in Manhattan called the Argosy. It was on 59th Street, near the corner of Lexington Avenue. How I got there […]
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10 books that have influenced me most in my life? Julie de Lespinasse & Marie Anne du Deffand
Posted in 18th century, 18th century films, 18thc actresses, Ann Radcliffe, disabled women, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, foremother poet, french writers, gothic, heroines' texts, historical novels, women's art, womens lives, tagged Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, feminism, foremother poet, Henry Austen, symbolic women, women artists, women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on July 20, 2018| 5 Comments »
10 books that have influenced me most in my life? Alcott’s Little Women, Travers’s Mary Poppins in the Park; Nancy Drew
Posted in children's-girls' books, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, reading life, victorian films, women's art, women's films, women's novels, womens lives, tagged symbolic women, women's life-writing on July 17, 2018| 11 Comments »
Wynona Ryder as Jo coming with accepted manuscript to Gabriel Bryne as Prof Bauer (1996 LW, directed Gillian Armstrong, my favorite of all the LW movies A thumbnail of the pair (hurt badly by the ugly insistence on ownership by a website) Friends and readers, Day 6/10 of books that influenced me, had a discernible […]
10 Books that influenced me most in my life: Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, Bronte’s Jane Eyre & DuMaurier, Austen’s Mansfield Park
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, 18thc actresses, 19th century, Andrew Davies, Ann Radcliffe, biography, costume drama, disabled women, early modern women, Emma, epistolary novels, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, historical-literary study, jane austen criticism, Sense and Sensibility, victorian films, women artists, women's films, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged brontes, daphne dumaurier, Elizabeth Gaskell, Gone with The Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Susan Sontag on July 14, 2018| 2 Comments »
Hattie McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland and Vivien Leigh 1939 in Gone with the Wind Diary Friends, Day 5/10 of books that influenced me (growing up lasts a long time), that had a discernible impact. Again for me this is problematic. Between the ages of 13 and 15 I read and reread four books to the […]
10 Books that influenced me most in my life? Richardson’s Clarissa
Posted in 18th century, 18th century films, epistolary novels, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, literary biography, politics, reading life, women's film, women's novels, tagged Clarissa, feminism, letters, Samuel Richardson, symbolic women, women's life-writing, women's novels on July 11, 2018| 5 Comments »
Anna (Hermione Norris) reading Clarissa’s letter telling Anna of her desperate need for some shelter as she’s pressured intensely to marry Mr Solmes (BBC/WBGH Clarissa, 1991) Friends and readers, I’m carrying on for the second day. For my second book of a 10 book list on what book influenced me most strongly — or, to […]
10 Books that influenced me most in my life? Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Posted in Austen criticism, Austen film, costume drama, female archetypes, feminism, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, jane austen novels, jane austens novels, Sense and Sensibility, women's novels, tagged symbolic women, women's novels on July 9, 2018| 6 Comments »
Hattie Morahan, near the end of S&S thinking that Edward is married, and will never come to her, enduring it, my Elinor Dashwood I’m joining in on a meme on face-book where people ask and answer, What 10 books influenced you more than any others in your life? then you are to put its cover […]
10 important 20th century books
Posted in female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, women's art, women's novels, women's poetry, tagged feminism, foremother poet, symbolic women, women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on January 5, 2014| 1 Comment »
Werefkin, Woman with Lantern (1912) Dear friends and readers, A variation on the 10 important books to you that made the rounds, only absurdly obtuse. On Women Writers across the Ages one of members noticed one of the year-round-up lists which purported to list the 10 serious important books of the 20th century, presumably of […]
10 Books central to my life
Posted in 18th century, costume drama, film adaptation, heroines' texts, jane austen novels, jane austens novels, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, womens lives, tagged feminism, women's novels on December 14, 2013| 25 Comments »
Hattie Morahan as Elinor Dashwood (near close of Davies’s 2008 film of S&S) There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would break the heart … Wordsworth, Michael Friends and readers, There’s been a meme on face-book asking people to cite 10 books that they never forgot, […]
Women writers whose books I’ve been reading or whose films I’ve been watching recently ….
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, Austen film, costume drama, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, tagged actresses, Anna Austen Lefroy, symbolic women, women's novels, women's poetry on October 14, 2019| 1 Comment »
Sometimes (sadly) it seems Austen is the only writer among some of my favorites whom I’ve not gotten to. This fall I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood (oh yes again!), her Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, a supposed and part-sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale, but much more a reaction to (mostly against) the TV serial, which […]
After teaching Tom Jones for 10 weeks
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, historical-literary study, tagged Henry Fielding, teaching, Tom Jones on February 29, 2016| 8 Comments »
Mapping Tom’s Journey Friends and readers, I bring together in one place my essay-blogs on the extraordinary learning journey I took with a group of older retired people at the Oscher Institute of Life-long Learning (attached to American University in DC) when we read and discussed Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. I was asked by a […]
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