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Review: Much Dithering by Dorothy Lambert

August 9, 2020

Much Dithering is both the title of a novel by Dorothy Lambert, and the name of the village where the …

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Mammon and the Magnificat: More on E.F. Benson’s Biblical References

June 1, 2016

I’ve been reading E. F. Benson’s Mammon and Co., one of his less famous novels, which concerns a young aristocratic …

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Surpassing the Love of Riseholme: The Bible and Mapp and Lucia’s Memorial Sermon

May 21, 2016

The memorial service held for Mapp and Lucia in their eponymous novel by E.F. Benson is a brilliant piece of …

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A Guru in the Way: Mapp and Lucia, Episode Two, starring Harish Patel

December 31, 2014

The second instalment of the new BBC Mapp and Lucia lived up completely to the promise of the first, and …

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A Peek Into Tilling: “Mapp and Lucia”, starring Anna Chancellor and Miranda Richardson

December 30, 2014

The BBC has put Mapp and Lucia on our screens.  This is a major epoch.  E.F. Benson’s novels about the …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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