english literature
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Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Uncollected Stories
Sylvia Townsend Warner, ‘The Music at Long Verney’, The Harvill Press, 2001
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Lolly Willowes – Autumn, Witchcraft, Satan
‘Lolly Willowes’, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Penguin Classics, 2020. First published by Chatto & Windus 1926.
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Dark Christmas Stories for the Dark Season
This is the second year in establishing a new Christmas tradition – reading ghost stories in the long nights of December.
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2024 – The Year of the Books Which Have Piled Up
In 2024, my reading resolution is to go through all the books which have piled up over the last years.
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7 Reasons Why Pursue an MA in English Literature
I didn’t even know what Reading was until I spent three years as a student on an MA in English literature.
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Jane Eyre – How to Be in Control
When read with intent, Charlotte Brontë’s must-read classic ‘Jane Eyre’ is more than a gothic novel, more than a romantic love story. It is a…
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Something Tangible, Alive, Threatening
‘The Villa and The Vortex’, Elinor Mordaunt, Handheld Press, 2021
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How ‘Jane Eyre’ Was Published – The Story in Charlotte Brontë’s Letters
That Charlotte Brontë published ‘Jane Eyre’ in 1847 under the name Currer Bell is well-known but what more is there to the story? Let’s see…
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The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf’s First Novel
It’s hard to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel objectively, knowing her later work. I keep looking for the Woolf I know. But she was not…
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Orlando. He Was a Woman.
‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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