Catherine Clive as Mrs Riot by Peter Van Bleeck (in the Garrick Club) (detail enlarged) Friends and readers, I am delighted to be able to say I’ve put onto academia.edu, a review I wrote a couple of months ago of Berta Joncus’s Kitty Clive, or the Fair Songstress . I had hoped to attend the […]
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Catherine Clive (1711-85): singer-actress & writer, a woman immersed in the theater worlds of her era
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18thc actresses, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, landscapes, women artists, women's art, women's memoirs, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged actresses, feminism, symbolic women, women artists, women's poetry on April 16, 2020| 5 Comments »
Retrospective: foremother poets, women painters, actresses
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, 18th century poetry, 18thc actresses, Austen's life, costume drama, early modern women, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, women artists, women's art, women's poetry, tagged actresses, women artists on November 26, 2019| 4 Comments »
Mary Wollstonecraft (1758-97) “I don’t believe you realise how much the war has stung our generation. We have had the bottom of things knocked out completely, we have been sent reeling into the chaos and it seems to us that none of your standards are either fixed or necessarily good because in the end they […]
EC/ASECS, at Fredericksburg: Adaptation, Textual Studies, Women writers; actresses, pets in pictures, slavery & religion
Posted in 18th century, 18th century films, adaptations, Andrew Davies, Ann Radcliffe, Austen criticism, Austen film, conference-paper report, costume drama, early modern women, epistolary narrative, jane austen films, politics, Pride and Prejudice, women's art, tagged feminism, renaissance, Samuel Richardson on February 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Paul Sandby (1731-1809) The Magic Lantern Dear readers and friends, My second report on the papers and talks I heard at the recent EC/ASECS conference (see Money, Feeling and the Gothic, Johnson and The Woman of Colour). I’ve three panels, a keynote speech and individual papers to tell of. Of especial interest: a paper on […]
South Central ASECS Asheville: Enlightenment women writers, poets & actresses & myths
Posted in 18th century, 18thc actresses, conference-paper report, epistolary novels, female archetypes, feminism, gothic, heroines' texts, historical novels, landscapes, women's art, women's novels, tagged Ann Radcliffe, feminism, women's poetry on March 21, 2012| 4 Comments »
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), Portrait of a woman dressed as a vestal virgin Dear friends and readers, A third and last blog on my time at the South Central ASECS (see Panoramas and Ann Radcliffe’s landscapes), again mostly on the papers I heard: Saturday was a long satisfying day, sessions all day long, and I did […]
Sandra Richards’s Rise of the English Actress
Posted in 18th century, 18thc actresses, 19th century, 20th century, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, foremother poet, women's art, women's memoirs, tagged actresses, Helen Mirren on March 2, 2012| 13 Comments »
Ian McKellen and Judi Dench as Macbeth and his lady (1979 BBC Macbeth, Philip Casson, Trevor Nunn) Dear friends and readers, Before I went away to Asheville, North Caroline for the South Central region’s 18th century conference, I wrote briefly about the importance of this book: Richards locates in the mid-19th century the significant shift […]
Still reading about actresses … and Ann Radcliffe
Posted in 18th century, 18thc actresses, Ann Radcliffe, conference-paper report, heroines' texts, women's art, womens lives, tagged theater on February 22, 2012| 1 Comment »
John Singer Sergeant’s portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth Dear friends and readers, I’m now into Sandra Richards’s important The Rise of the English Actress, and am chuffed to be able to say at long last I’ve discovered it was in the mid-19th century that the tide began to turn for actresses and they […]
Kirsten Pullen’s Actresses and Whores
Posted in 18th century, 18thc actresses, 19th century, female archetypes, feminism, women's art, women's memoirs, tagged actresses on February 18, 2012| 6 Comments »
Mae West surrounded by male supporters after she was arrested for making the movie, Sex Dear friends and readers, I returned to my project of reading towards and then writing a review of Nussbaum’s Rival Queens (on 18th century actresses), and found myself again facing this vexed question of how to treat prostitution. Nussbaum is […]
18th century actresses & historical fiction; Poldark dreams
Posted in 18th century, 18thc actresses, female archetypes, heroines' texts, historical novels, women's memoirs, tagged women's life-writing on November 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
Verity (Norma Streader) and Captain Blamey (Jonathan Newt) falling in love (1975-76 Poldark I) Dear Friends, I’m sometimes torn over where to put a blog. I’ve been putting my conference reports on Ellen and Jim have a blog, two for several years now and so thought it best to report on the recent EC/ASECS I […]
Emma Thompson saves an actress; whose movie was the 1995 S&S?
Posted in blank, feminism, jane austen films on August 4, 2009| 2 Comments »
Dear Friends, This story is worth reading and commenting upon here. For the past six or seven years actress after actress who stars in roles has become a bag of bones. In Babel Cate Blanchett looked scary she was so thin; Sally Hawkins in Persuasion and her more recent film for Mike Leigh was frigteningly […]
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