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This is the first of what will undoubtedly be a slew of books that concern late Victorian women writers and ideas of motherhood or maternity, for the simple reason that that’s what I’m writing my Masters dissertation on.
The Story of an African Farm is one of the earlier example of the New Woman in fiction. [...]
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April 29, 2009 in feminism, fiction, review, victorian literature Tagged feminism, olive schreiner, the story of an african farm, victorian
This from last week’s Times Higher Education. I must say I laughed rather a lot:
It may be an authoritative documentation of the history of man, but that did not stop Homo Britannicus being shelved in the gay and lesbian section of a university library. The mix-up at the University of Manchester tickled the book’s author, [...]
Or, at least, it certainly looks that way. I am dreadfully excited. Not only does this mark a momentous moment in women’s writing – the first female Poet Laureate – but Carol Ann Duffy is probably my favourite contemporary poet. And she’s Glaswegian. I am really quite thrilled, and I hope that she enjoys her [...]
I know I only changed my URL a few months ago, but the lovely Catherine offered to host my blog on her server, and it was a proposition I just couldn’t refuse. As you can see, all the content has been shifted over to this new address so we can just carry on as usual.
Please [...]
This just really amused me. It’s been one of those days.
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More erudite posting next week. Perhaps
Jump on over to OUPblog, where I have been choosing my favourite links of the week.
Lovely.
At the end of last year, the good people of Faber and Faber sent me a beautiful 2009 diary, which I have been using religiously ever since. I would be lost without it.
Throughout the diary are lots of pictures of original book covers, poems, and quotations from Faber books. This week’s quotation is from Alan [...]
You wait for a week for a post, then two come along at once. Behold! It’s the Orange Prize Shortlist!
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
‘Choosing just six was far harder than I had imagined, [...]
My blogging has been shamefully lax recently, for which I apologise. In my defence, I had an essay to hand in yesterday and it was a bit ‘all-hands-on-deck’ for the last week there. Still, it’s done, and I’m happy with it, and it’s handed in. Other than the small point of now having a 15,000 [...]
April 21, 2009 in feminism, news & media
Tagged beauty, Britain's Got Talent, daily express, feminism, susan boyle
Tagged beauty, Britain's Got Talent, daily express, feminism, susan boyle
Thanks to Ruth for this one… I do like a good meme.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Oh gosh, I’m not sure. I own every novel by Charles Dickens, except one, so he’s a possibility. I have a lot of Virginia Woolf too.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Jane [...]
Not the TV Book Group
Sun 07 Feb: Brodeck's Report - Philippe Claudel
Sun 21 Feb: The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
Sun 07 Mar: Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers
Sun 21 Mar: The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston
Sun 11 Apr: Skin Lane - Neil Bartlett
Sun 25 Apr: The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan
Sun 09 May: A Short Gentleman - Jon Canter
Sun 23 May: Fledgling - Octavia E. ButlerReading Challenge
The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist - Jill Tweedie
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Singled Out - Virginia Nicholson
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education - Jane Robinson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
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Thanks to NadiaThe Small Print
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