When I saw the title of longtime New Yorker writer and cultural essayist Adam Gopnik’s slim new volume, “All That Happiness Is, ” the song “Happiness” from the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brow...
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04.19.2024 Writergurlny.wordpress.comThis weekend in Brussels, the Brussels Brontë Group April Weekend is held: Talks Saturday 20 April 2024 (morning) Université Saint-Louis, Rue du Marais 119, Brussels. 10. 00 Talk by Valerie Sanders: ‘...
04.19.2024 Bronteblog.blogspot.comThe Protestant reverend Dorus van Gogh and his wife, Anna Carbentus, had seven children. The firstborn, named Vincent, was stillborn on March 30, 1852. Just a year later he came into the world Vincent...
04.21.2024 Euro.eseuro.comI saw a tweet by Wera Hobhouse , the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, in support of the End Sexism in Schools campaign. It said that, 'shockingly', only two per cent of GCSE students study literature by female authors. It is a shocking statistic, and it made me think back to my own schooldays. Sure enough, I didn't study a single woman writer for O level or A level English literature. Since you ask, here are the books I studied: O level The Merchant of Venice An anthology of 20th-century British po...
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04.20.2024 Coventrytelegraph.netI got to speak to a group of esteemed old boys from a NZ school today. My starting point was a comment made by a Head of English at a boys school I was teaching at when she stated that the comparative...
04.24.2024 Kiwiblog.co.nz and 1 sitesAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry – George Eliot, Felix Holt the Radical
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