Saturday, 31 December 2022
Friday, 30 December 2022
POSSESSION, A VERY ROMANTIC MOVIE
A visiting American scholar is paging through an old volume at the British Museum when he comes upon a letter stuffed between the pages, a love letter, it would appear, from Queen Victoria's poet laureate, addressed to a woman not his wife. The poet has been held up for more than a century as a model of marital fidelity. The letter is dynamite. The scholar slips the letter out of the book and into his portfolio, and is soon displaying it, with all the pride and uncertainly of a new father, to a British woman who knows (or thought she knew) everything about the poet. Read here.
https://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/possession-2002-a-love-story-with-multi-generational-pull/
https://fsharetv.io/watch/possession-episode-1-tt0256276
Sunday, 25 December 2022
Saturday, 17 December 2022
Friday, 16 December 2022
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MISS AUSTEN!
December 16th is a festive day for Janeites. On a very snowy day in 1775 our favorite author Jane Austen was born to Rev. George Austen and his wife Cassandra at Steventon rectory in Hampshire, England.
She was a revolutionary writer, who had very strong views about her society and found pleasure in expressing her thoughts through her writing. Born into a large family, she enjoyed sharing her writings and entertaining others. Read here.
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