The Subtlety of Governor Gumpas – C.S. Lewis and a Detail of The Discarded Image
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”
I’ve been reading Anthony Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset recently, and enjoying the experience. [Spoiler warning: don’t read this …
The Charms of Rosmerta: Harry Potter, a pagan goddess and the English school story
This term I am in the enviable position of teaching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as part of the …
Miss Pettigrew and the Provincial Lady: Women Looking at Women
Midcentury British fiction by women is one of my favourite genres, and I have the overdraft with Persephone Books to …
Speak Its Name, by Kathleen Jowitt
“This it what it was like. No matter who you were back then, and whoever you ended up as afterwards, …
“the use of the post-office is in her own hands” – Anthony Trollope, Pillar Boxes, and Love Letters
Anthony Trollope invented the pillar-box, and then regretted it. That’s one of those facts which has been at the back …
There’s A War On, Darling: Blackadder, E.M. Delafield and the Provincial Lady
World War. A British headquarters. A commander pores over a deskful of papers whilst their second-in-command fusses around them, irritably …
Heroine Addict: Emma Kendall on Harriet Vane
For a little while it was Violet Baudelaire. There were many, many years when it was Lyra Silvertongue. There was …
