John Harrell as Dorimant, the Man of Mode Jessika Williams as Margaret of Anjou (The American Shakespeare Center, Blackfriars Playhouse, 2018) Friends and readers, EC/ASECS 49th annual conference, held in Staunton, Virginia, October 25th to 27th, 2018, has just ended a rewarding two days of panels, papers and presentations on the theme of performance in […]
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EC/ASECS conference & The Presence of Charlotte Smith, Matthew Prior and George Crabbe in Austen’s Persuasion
Posted in 18th century, Austen criticism, Austen Poetry, conference-paper report, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, jane austen criticism, jane austens novels, Persuasion, women's film, tagged Charlotte Smith, EC/ASECS, George Crabbe, Matthew Prior, Samuel Johnson on October 30, 2018| 4 Comments »
Performing Charlotte Smith & Matthew Prior in Austen’s Persuasion
Posted in 18th century, Austen criticism, Austen Poetry, conference-paper report, foremother poet, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austens novels, Persuasion, women's art, women's novels, women's poetry, tagged allusion, Charlotte Smith, foremother poet, women's novels, women's poetry on June 6, 2018| 8 Comments »
Cattle Watering perhaps by John Glover (1767-1849) Gentle readers, I’ve had some troubles over the past two weeks: my PC Dell Desktop computer died, and it has taken two weeks to replace it with a new one (Windows 20); alas while I was promised that all my files would be retrieved and put back into […]
Autumn: Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith in Persuasion
Posted in 18th century, Austen criticism, feminism, film adaptation, foremother poet, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austens novels, landscapes, Persuasion, reading life, women's art, women's films, women's novels, women's poetry, tagged Charlotte Smith, seasonal on December 8, 2017| 6 Comments »
Amanda Root as Anne Elliot walking among the autumn leaves (1995 BBC Persuasion, scripted Nick Dear, directed Roger Michell) Dear friends and readers, I am chuffed (proud, happy) to say two new essays on Charlotte Smith by me are now available from the power and liberty of the Internet. The first is my essay for […]
Placing Charlotte Smith at Chawton House Library: Desmond, Beachy Head, a musical lecture recital & St John’s, Guildford
Posted in 18th century, conference-paper report, epistolary narrative, feminism, foremother poet, french writers, gothic, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, landscapes, politics, women's novels, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Charlotte Smith, symbolic women, women's novels on December 1, 2016| 4 Comments »
Hardy, Under Beachy Head Dear friends and readers, This is the sixth and last of my reports on the the Charlotte Smith conference this October, to which I will add a lecture given by Carole Brown on the history of St John’s Church in Guildford where Charlotte Smith was baptized and lies buried. The first […]
Placing Charlotte Smith at Chawton House Library: the novelist & playwright
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, adaptations, Ann Radcliffe, conference-paper report, epistolary narrative, epistolary novels, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, foremother poet, jasna, landscapes, literary biography, reading life, translation studies, women's art, women's novels, tagged women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on November 24, 2016| 6 Comments »
Furness Abbey, Cumbria (modern photo) Dear friends and readers, A third conference report, our subject this time Smith’s novels, tales and her one play, What Is She?. I’ve described Friday morning and middle afternoon. This time I cover more papers, with some briefer summaries: starting late Friday afternoon, to lunchtime Saturday and early afternoon, the […]
Placing Charlotte Smith at Chawton House Library, her poetry: the marketplace, natural world & use of paintings
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, conference-paper report, costume drama, epistolary novels, feminism, reading life, The Watsons, women artists, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Charlotte Smith, homoeroticism, symbolic women, Travel book, victorian novelist, women's life-writing, women's poetry on November 13, 2016| 3 Comments »
Frontispiece to 1788 edition of Elegiac Sonnets To the Goddess of Botany: OF Folly weary, shrinking from the view Of Violence and Fraud, allow’d to take All peace from humble life; I would forsake Their haunts for ever, and, sweet Nymph! with you Find shelter; where my tired, and tear-swollen eyes Among your silent shades […]
Placing Charlotte Smith at Chawton House Library: Her Elegiac Sonnets
Posted in 18th century, conference-paper report, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, landscapes, literary biography, reading life, women's art, women's novels, women's poetry, tagged Charlotte Smith, women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on November 9, 2016| 4 Comments »
Charlotte Smith in 1792 by George Romney Dear friends and readers, In the second week of October a second Charlotte Smith conference was held for three days: the first two at mostly at the Chawton House Library (a musical recital was in St Nicholas’s church on the grounds); the third, a Sunday, a tour to […]
Charlotte Smith’s Ethelinde and Emigrants as Post-colonial texts
Posted in 18th century, conference-paper report, epistolary narrative, Fanny Burney, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, women's art, women's novels, women's poetry, tagged Charlotte Smith, Dora Carrington, Remedios Varo, women artists on October 25, 2016| 4 Comments »
Remedios Varo, Spiral Transit (1962) By contrast? Carrington’s Artist Home and Garden “as woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” – Woolf, Three Guineas Dear friends and readers, As I’m just coming up for air after having attended three conferences in […]
Charlotte Smith’s Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake is published!
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, adaptations, Andrew Davies, Ann Radcliffe, Austen criticism, Austen film, Austen Poetry, Austen's life, female archetypes, feminism, gothic, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, women's art, women's novels, women's poetry, womens lives on October 8, 2016| 9 Comments »
Dear Friends and readers, Valancourt Press has published my edition of Charlotte Smith’s Ethelinde; or, The Recluse of the Lake. You can see the book, a description of the story, and places and ways to buy at Valancourt’s on-line site. The artist who painted that alluring suggestive image on the cover is Jean-Baptiste Mallet (1759-1835). […]
Charlotte Smith’s Celestina: a novelist in search of another kind of novel
Posted in 18th century, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, tagged Charlotte Smith, women's novels on August 8, 2016| 3 Comments »
John Martin (1789-1854), Landscape possibly Isle of Wight or Richmond Felicité passée Qui ne peut revenir; tourment de ma pensée Que n’ai je en te perdant, perdu le souvenir In these gloomy moods, she was quite unable to remain a moment in company — Smith cannot break away from obsessive memories of her life as […]
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