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Há 3 dias · Day 17: Tipping the Velvet (1998) by Sarah Waters. I’d read all of Waters’ other novels, but somehow not got around to her first. As you’ll probably know, it tells the story of Nancy. She grows up in a Whitstable family whose living is made by selling oysters – and by all the messy process that precedes selling them.
I can think of a lot of books criticizing capitalism or in support of feminism, for example, but not many classics that are written from a right-wing perspective. Some of Orwell's work could be interpreted as criticizing the far-left, but he was a democratic socialist. I've heard complaints from the right that literary critics are usually left ...
12 de mai. de 2016 · Purnell reports rumours of altercations between Lady Blanche’s various lovers, who probably included Lord Redesdale, the grandfather of the notorious Mitford sisters and the man Purnell seems to endorse as the most likely father (pp. 10–11).
Há 4 dias · Mitford Sisters . Unity, Pam, Diana, Nancy and Jessica lived at the Victorian Gothic Mansion, Batsford Park, between 1916 and 1919 (famous for its Arboretum) near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. The sixth sister, Deborah was born at Asthall Manor at Asthall village near Swinbrook in Oxfordshire.
Há 3 dias · Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.
Há 3 dias · On Patriotism, by Paul Daley. On Rape, by Germaine Greer. Author: Paula Matthewson Title: On Merit (On Series, previously Little Books on Big Ideas series) Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 2019 ISBN: 9780522875751, pbk., 97 pages Source: Personal library, purchased from Benn’s Books $14.99.
Há 3 dias · It can mean only one thing – the return of Bridgerton. Netflix’s revisionist costume drama is now in its third series, and all of its Regency-ish hallmarks are present and correct. The ...
