Dear friends and readers, I’ve not given up or put away my review of the new Cambridge Finch volume altogether. I’ve been reading (for example) Gillian Wright’s Producing Women’s Poery, 1600-1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print: a study of women’s poetry as the texts appear in the manuscripts across this era. I’m going to […]
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Studying Manuscripts: from Anne Finch to Jane Austen
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, Austen criticism, conference-paper report, early modern women, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, women artists, women's novels, womens lives, tagged foremother poet, letters, symbolic women, women's life-writing on May 25, 2022| 4 Comments »
Review of the Cambridge edition of Austen’s Later Manuscripts
Posted in Austen criticism, Austen's life, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austen sequels, jane austens letters, women's memoirs, tagged letters, literature, women's life-writing on November 20, 2012| 3 Comments »
Jane Austen writing — as imagined and drawn by Isabel Bishop (1902-88) Dear friends and readers, Doubtless you will remember how last spring, early and late I was examining the later manuscripts of Jane Austen (using diplomatic transcripts, the online Jane Austen manuscript site), reading about the study of manuscripts in and of itself, and […]
Austen’s unpublished writing: the manuscripts
Posted in Austen criticism, Austen film, Emma, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austens letters, jane austens novels, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, women's art, tagged letters, linda bree, literature, women's life-writing on March 14, 2012| 10 Comments »
The 2nd volume is shorter than I cd wish — but the difference is not so much in reality as in look, there being a larger proportion of Narrative in that Part. (Austen, 29 January 1813) An attempt to present the manuscripts consistently to be read as works in their own right to a popular […]
Renaissance Society of America: A virtual conference, the first I’ve attended in many years … (1)
Posted in early modern women, female archetypes, feminism, literary biography, reading life, Renaissance women, women artists, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Anne Finch, Anne Murray, Catherine des Roches, feminism, foremother poet, Gaspara Stampa, Lady Halkett, Louise Labe, Marguerite de Navarre, symbolic women, women's life-writing, women's poetry on December 11, 2022| 3 Comments »
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652) — self portrait of herself as a painter Dear friends and readers, Although I have only a few sessions to describe out of the many that the RSA presented online for a few days, that is, from November 30th, to December 1st, I want to record what I heard and participated in. […]
Jane Austen and Anne Finch in Manuscript and Manuscript Culture today
Posted in 18th century poetry, Austen criticism, Austen film, female archetypes, feminism, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austens letters, jane austens novels, women's memoirs, tagged letters, women's life-writing on October 23, 2022| 5 Comments »
Amanda Vickery expatiating on a group of 18th century letters and what they reveal Dear Friends and Readers, Last May I announced that I would be going (once again) to the East Central region meeting of the American 18th century Society and that a proposal for a paper I was going to write over the […]
A 4 day virtual Virginia Woolf conference (2)
Posted in 20th century, conference-paper report, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, politics, women artists, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Bloomsbury, feminism, foremother poet, symbolic women, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, women's life-writing, women's novels on July 2, 2022| 4 Comments »
Virginia, Leonard and Pinka Woolf One of Virginia Woolf’s desks Dear friends and readers, Here am I to tell you about the second two days of the virtual Virginia Woolf conference held a few weeks ago now (for Thursday and Friday). Saturday, the first session I could make was “Flush: Canine Relations.” Having taught Flush […]
Summer reading: Valerie Martin’s Italian Fever
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An enchanting ironic romance occurring in Tuscany This is the cover of the audio book Bernini’s Daphne and Apollo in the Galleria Borghese in Rome — to which our heroine, Lucy Stark, comes, is riveted by & comments on An enchanting ironic romance occurring in Tuscany Dear friends and readers, While I have for a […]
Anne Finch’s friendship poetry: to women friends who were themselves poets, or wrote some poetry
Posted in 18th century, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women's memoirs, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Anne Finch, Catherine Fleming on December 7, 2021| 4 Comments »
Sisters, 1891, Elin Danielson-Gambogi (Finnish), 1861-1919. Quiet female friendship is such a rare topic (except the woman painter be painting discipleship) for fine painting, one must go to novel illustrations and I can’t think of any of sufficient beauty for my purpose From the Circuit of Appollo, a poem by Anne where she names (unfortunately […]
Virtual Conferences, Lectures & Videos: Anne Bronte, her novels & poetry (2): as whistleblower
Posted in 19th century, disabled women, epistolary narrative, epistolary novels, feminism, foremother poet, french writers, heroines' texts, Women's historical romance, women's memoirs, tagged Anne Bronte, foremother poet, symbolic women, women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on October 3, 2021| 1 Comment »
Anne Bronte by herself, drawn as a girl seeking, looking out Dear friends and readers, A couple of week ago now I wrote out some notes I took on two separate occasions, a talk on zoom from the Gaskell house and Haworth cottage on Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte, and two talks from an […]
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