Blogs about: Aphra Behn
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James is kicked out of this blog!
…and with those posts about Inés de Castro (albeit that they ended up being nothing like what I originally envisioned), I have achieved my 2012 ambition of “getting the hell out of 1688… more →
A Course Of Steady Reading
"The Dream" -- Aphra Behn
wrote 5 days ago: “The Dream” by Aphra Behn— All trembling in my arms Aminta lay, Defending of the b … more →
Open Garden 1
wrote 1 week ago: Gyles and Carrie had agreed to open the garden of Nutwood Cottage to the general public, in conjunct … more →
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things!
wrote 1 week ago: Lucretius, has always made me feel hopeful and some how more connected to the universe and less to t … more →
The Book Jar 3: Off To South America...
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Background: A book jar is a pretty, positive way of gathering together all the titles you want to re … more →
Adrian Lester says is it a 'tragedy' that black actors contributions are ignored in the UK
wrote 1 month ago: REMEMBERING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF BLACK ACTORS: Adrian Lester THERE ARE many actors who are famous fo … more →
Like If You Remember This Facebook Meme
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wrote 1 month ago: I am grateful for Facebook and other social media. They have revolutionized the world. In an instant … more →
(drinking) Song
wrote 1 month ago: Oh Wine, pleasing witchery, priz’d disease that in tyranny can bestow passion we wake sluggish … more →
Conflicting Definitions, The Lovely Oxford English Dictionary And Aphra Behn's 'The Willing Mistress'
wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been saying in previous posts that the first thing to do when reading a poem is to work o … more →
Aphra Behn - The Willing Mistress
wrote 1 month ago: Note the tone Stella Gonet uses to portray the mistress’ willingness; not only is she willing, … more →
Aphra Behn - The Willing Mistress (1680)
wrote 1 month ago: Amyntas led me to a Grove, Where all the Trees did shade us; The Sun it self, though it had Strove, … more →
A Little Retreat
wrote 1 month ago: “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful fri … more →
Why do writers make such good spies?
wrote 1 month ago: Last month I finished reading Keith Jeffrey’s official history of the British Secret Intellige … more →
An Introduction to a True Account of a College Student’s Life
wrote 1 month ago: I do not pretend, by writing this true account of a college life, to entertain you with misadven … more →
Eva, or the Ill-Fated Vampire: A True History
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wrote 1 month ago: Anthony and Eva could no longer ignore the foreboding sound of ravenous townsmen approaching their h … more →
Rover.
wrote 2 months ago: Frederick. I begin to suspect something, and ‘twould anger us vilely to be trussed up for a ra … more →
A trick of perspective...
wrote 2 months ago: William Hogarth (1697-1764) was a British painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social cr … more →
Can drama be feminist?
wrote 2 months ago: By Sarah Weston In the study of arts-based subjects, the tendency might be to apply theories (“isms” … more →
Defining the Historian: Women Who Write About Sex
wrote 2 months ago: I’ve spent the last month being part of two amazing initiatives run by the BBC, here in the UK. Firs … more →
Happiness Quotes
wrote 2 months ago: “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond th … more →
