Time has passed so rapidly and our next meeting is on Monday 21 September and we are reading Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story. To purchase this book visit our page on Amazon:
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/chawhouslibr-21
It will raise funds for the Library and help us to keep developing the collection.
Tuesday 25 August 2009
Friday 21 August 2009
The Madwoman in the Attic
This week's Times Higher Education features The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar under its series on the literary canon ('The Canon', p. 47). A text I'm glad to say we have in the collection here at Chawton House Library. Deborah D. Rogers, professor of English at the University of Maine, ends her article with a question often raised about the recovery of women writers: '... some argue that ghettoising female authors is no longer necessary to counteract their marginalisation. For them, the time has come for a more integrative history of literature. But, echoing my children's complaints on long drives, I can't help but ask: "Are we there yet?"'
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Hester Thrale Piozzi
It's excellent to see Hester Thrale Piozzi, TLS August 7 2009, featured in the Life and Lives of Dr Johnson (just as she should be!) at The National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition runs until December 13.
Read Man of Fetters: Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/12/08/081208crat_atlarge_gopnik
and search our online catalogue for Thrale Piozzi holdings at Chawton House Library:
http://www.chawtonhouse.org/library/index.html
Read Man of Fetters: Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/12/08/081208crat_atlarge_gopnik
and search our online catalogue for Thrale Piozzi holdings at Chawton House Library:
http://www.chawtonhouse.org/library/index.html
Friday 14 August 2009
Villette by Charlotte Bronte and Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
As I've been on annual leave there has been time to listen to the radio and BBC Radio 4 have featured dramatisations of both Villette and Ruth. Catch up with them on i-player:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ltt32
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvg9b
There's also been lots of fun with Desperate Romantics and BBC 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvyq2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ltt32
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvg9b
There's also been lots of fun with Desperate Romantics and BBC 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvyq2
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