Civilization, seriously
What really holds civilization together? Women, according to someone Lawrence Durrell once tussled with. But is this as glorious a...
Work-hardened hands
Tall, strong, upright, loving, jealous, kind, old and complex Lisbeth Bede, mother of Adam. I enjoyed George Eliot's minute description...
Fate-spinning crones
Elsewhere Leigh Fermor talks of 'black-coiffed crones'. Here they are 'fate-spinning', giving a terrifying and timeless aspect to them, reinforced...
Broad-leaved sycamores and weary-hearted women
George Eliot writes sensitively and movingly of the early manifestation of Methodism. She wrote Adam Bede around 1850 but set...
What was I created for?
A widely asked question, surely. Here it is one of the key protagonists of Bronte's Shirley, the heroine Caroline. Curiously,...
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