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Review – “The Gospel of Eve” by Rachel Mann

November 6, 2020

All I wanted to do was re-examine Evie’s book. A palimpsest. Was that the solution to the secret of her …

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Writing in Sequence: A Guest Post by Penelope Wallace

October 5, 2020

This is a guest post by Penelope Wallace, author of the “Ragaris” novels. Penelope and I have been taking about …

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The Subtlety of Governor Gumpas – C.S. Lewis and a Detail of The Discarded Image

May 8, 2019

I’ve been rereading C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image today, sparked by a reread of Michael Ward’s work on planetary symbolism …

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Paté and Parallels: Reading “The Last Chronicle of Barset”

April 14, 2018

I’ve been reading Anthony Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset recently, and enjoying the experience.  [Spoiler warning: don’t read this …

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The Charms of Rosmerta: Harry Potter, a pagan goddess and the English school story

February 20, 2018

This term I am in the enviable position of teaching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as part of the …

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Miss Pettigrew and the Provincial Lady: Women Looking at Women

February 20, 2016

Midcentury British fiction by women is one of my favourite genres, and I have the overdraft with Persephone Books to …

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Speak Its Name, by Kathleen Jowitt

February 5, 2016

“This it what it was like. No matter who you were back then, and whoever you ended up as afterwards, …

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“the use of the post-office is in her own hands” – Anthony Trollope, Pillar Boxes, and Love Letters

January 6, 2016

Anthony Trollope invented the pillar-box, and then regretted it. That’s one of those facts which has been at the back …

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There’s A War On, Darling: Blackadder, E.M. Delafield and the Provincial Lady

August 8, 2014

World War.  A British headquarters.  A commander pores over a deskful of papers whilst their second-in-command fusses around them, irritably …

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Heroine Addict: Emma Kendall on Harriet Vane

October 24, 2013

For a little while it was Violet Baudelaire. There were many, many years when it was Lyra Silvertongue. There was …

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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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