The Last Phone Booth
When I read about the “world’s smallest Austen museum” in a red telephone box in Steventon, Hampshire, in a recent …
Tag Archives: Edith Wharton
Eight Years!
Here are eight of my favourite blog posts, to mark the eighth anniversary of my blog: Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” …
L.M. Montgomery and the Halifax Public Gardens
“She’ll feel awful bad if her flowers get frosted, especially them dahlias. Octavia sets such store by her dahlias.” In …
“Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified”
Lady Catherine insists to Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice that she must not think she will ever improve her …
Five Years!
Jane Austen’s letters, her novels Emma and Persuasion, the virtue of charity, the history of Nova Scotia, and the composition …
The Custom of the Country Turns 101 Today
Today is the 101st anniversary of the publication of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country. She called it her …
A Summer (Reading) Marathon
“A girl came out of lawyer Royall’s house, at the end of one street of North Dormer, and stood on …
Edith Wharton’s Passion for Order
It was Helen Pinkerton who introduced me to Edith Wharton, and in honour of Wharton’s birthday today I’d like to …
Mansfield Park is a Tragedy, Not a Comedy
I’m really excited about discussing Mansfield Park with all of you this year – so excited that I can’t wait …
How Much Did Edith Wharton Revise The Custom of the Country?
Tenth and last in a series celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country. “I have …
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