Interview with Brenda Clough on HIS SELACHIAN MAJESTY REQUESTS
I had a gas reading this book. Brenda Clough maintains she writes historical SF, maybe too confining a label? She has set a number of
Tag: Victorian literature
Reading the Classics: Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë
My favorite of the Brontes is Anne. This is my favorite of her novels. In this and Jane Eyre, we have governess-eye views of the
Reading the Classics: The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
This is the first book in Anthony Trollope’s famous Barsetshire series, which inspired spinoffs by Angela Thirkell, and a ton of various filmic versions. Nobody
Reading the Classics: WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
It’s actually winter in Southern California, closing us in for an entire week. Time to reread the great classics! And Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth
Reading the Classics: MIDDLEMARCH
The occasion of this recent reread was a discussion of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. At the end one of the groups said, “Why is this considered
The Brontes, and Author Vs. Critic
It is scarcely the province of an author to refute the arguments of his censors and vindicate his own productions, but I may be allowed