‘Lady Audley’s Secret’: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Mid Victorian Sensationalist Novel
How embarrasing: I typed and published a whole post – a review of this notorious Victorian novel – and only the image came out! I
How embarrasing: I typed and published a whole post – a review of this notorious Victorian novel – and only the image came out! I
I am a bit perturbed (I’m good at being perturbed, aren’t I?) at a New Age view which has infiltrated popular thinking. A recent blog
I enjoyed Balzac’s ‘Pére Goriot’ overall, despite – maybe because of – the melodramatic scenes. I particularly enjoyed the chapters which dealt with the villain
To my shame, I never had got round to reading Jane Austen’s unfinished work, ‘The Watsons’ until now. Well, that’s not quite true. I began
Four and a half stars for an excellent read – with a hero I really like (despite my last few posts, this can happen
I seem to be making a habit out of disliking one or both of the main characters in the books I’ve read recently: I couldn’t
While writing some ghost stories myself, I have been re-reading some of the ones I came across years ago by way of inspiration. I found
This is actually the third time I’ve read this, which has to be a compliment to the author. A fellow writer mentioned it
These days, it is a firm convention of romantic novels that there must be a happy ending – otherwise, it confounds reader expectations. While some
I have read several books by Daphne du Maurier and have admired her writing style, her evocative descriptions, her clever plotting, clarity of vision and
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