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• Reading on the Beach

  

  As the heatwave continues, I've been thinking I might take off for the beach tomorrow, complete with my new beach umbrella (€8. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Exiles Return

  

  Let me begin by saying that I have not read Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes, though everyone whose reviews of The Exiles Return I have read seems to... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Tearing up Letter

  

  Yes, we've had women reading letters, women writing letters, women dreaming happily or sadly over letters, but never before a woman tearing up a letter. Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Detective Ladies of Baker Street

  

  The year is 1891. News has reached London that the great detective Sherlock Holmes has met his death after a terrible fight above the Reichenbach Falls in... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tea Time

  

  This lovely painting, done in 1905, is by the American artist Jean McLane (1878-1964). Here's something I found about her, and the picture, online:  The... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Return Of Captain John Emmett

  

  After months of addiction to crime novels, I seem to have rather gone off them, for the moment anyway. But when I saw this recommended on Tales from the... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Painting

  

  Last week I showed you a lovely image of a girl reading, painted by Sir JohnLavery. Here's another of his portraits, this time of his second wife, called Mrs... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Way We Live Now

  

  Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time so rampant... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading

  

  This is 'Miss Auras, The Red Book' by the great Irish portrait painter Sir John Lavery (1856-1941).  There's a lot of very interesting information... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Eat Pray Love

  

  Here's a bookI never thought I'd be reading. I have in fact done my fair share of all these things during the course of my life, which is why I went to see the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 BOOKS

• Barchester Towers

  

  My obsession with Trollope continues. Having read my way almost to the end of the Barchester Chronicles, I decided to rewind almost to the beginning, with a... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading Music

  

  This is a detail from a painting by the very fine French artist Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), who was not only extremely beautiful herself... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• No Fond Return of Love

  

  ial I was introduced to Barbara Pym in the 1980s and read with huge pleasure all the novels that were in print at the time. Now it's Barbara Pym Reading Week an... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jane and Prudence

  

  As you may know, it is now Barbara Pym Reading Week. Hosted by Thomas at My Porch, this promises to be a great week for reviews of this wonderful writer. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girl with Book

  

  Here is a young lady holding a book that she is almost certainly not going to read. Painted by one Léon François Comerre ( 1850 – 1916) who as you can... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girl Writing

  

  This rather charming painting, by the French artist Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) is actually called 'At Her Lessons'. It's one of series of so-called cottag... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dead White Males (The Aspern Papers)

  

  Many years -- even decades -- ago I was co-opted into the study of 'women's writing'. At first a little dubious, I soon became a fully paid up member, both in m... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Framley Parsonage

  

  I simply cannot get enough of Anthony Trollope. Dr Thorne, which I reviewed a few weeks ago, has been closely followed by Framley Parsonage, and now I am... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Arranging Flowers

  

  This weekly spot - or as near weekly as I can manage - started life as a way of showing nice pictures of women reading or writing, and I still try to stick to... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Heat Lightning

  

  "Poor girl," he whispered. His face looked strange, as if for a long time she had not seen it, the deep eye sockets spaced wide, the strong spring of the nose,... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE