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"Death recorded" feels so quaint and low-key now.
January 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Death recorded" feels so quaint and low-key now.
Thank you so much, it was a wonderful book :). (I was also happy to see someone else who must have enjoyed "Shakespeare's Lives" as much as I did!
January 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Thank you so much, it was a wonderful book :). (I was also happy to see someone else who must have enjoyed "Shakespeare's Lives" as much as I did!
Just wanted to latch onto this comment to thank you for posting about "Imagining Shakespeare's Wife" -- got it for Christmas and it was BRILLIANT.
January 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Just wanted to latch onto this comment to thank you for posting about "Imagining Shakespeare's Wife" -- got it for Christmas and it was BRILLIANT.
William the Conqueror wasn't paying Danegeld as a voluntary investment, let's put it that way.
January 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
William the Conqueror wasn't paying Danegeld as a voluntary investment, let's put it that way.
Now I'm imagining her as the annoying local rich mom who's always just happening to mention that her husband has performed for the Queen ;).
December 17, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Now I'm imagining her as the annoying local rich mom who's always just happening to mention that her husband has performed for the Queen ;).
Depending on which station you exit at, it can definitely be a "modified rapture" situation 😐. But gingerbread redeems everything!
December 17, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Depending on which station you exit at, it can definitely be a "modified rapture" situation 😐. But gingerbread redeems everything!
He bought the biggest house in town with a courtyard and several dozen rooms. All that and the second best bed, what's not to like? (Also, I really need to get that book!)
December 17, 2024 at 7:43 AM
He bought the biggest house in town with a courtyard and several dozen rooms. All that and the second best bed, what's not to like? (Also, I really need to get that book!)
Any chance you could get the ducks to pose as well?
December 8, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Any chance you could get the ducks to pose as well?
Really nice article, thank you for sharing! I had completely missed that attribution and am glad to know of it, even if it seems not to be a true one. Personally I can see why Elizabeth might have decided "semper eadem" might wear better than "la plus heureuse".
December 4, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Really nice article, thank you for sharing! I had completely missed that attribution and am glad to know of it, even if it seems not to be a true one. Personally I can see why Elizabeth might have decided "semper eadem" might wear better than "la plus heureuse".
I'm sure it's for the best.
December 4, 2024 at 12:08 AM
I'm sure it's for the best.
anneboleynnovels.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/c... I just reread my summary of it and remember absolutely none of it except for Anne trying to get the heroine raped and an escape from a cellar or something. Never again.
Cold Steel by M.P. Shiel (1899, rev. 1929)
This book features one of the strangest Anne Boleyns I have ever seen in fiction — there have been villainous Annes before, and even a few blonde Annes, but never before have I seen Anne depicted a…
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December 3, 2024 at 9:50 PM
anneboleynnovels.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/c... I just reread my summary of it and remember absolutely none of it except for Anne trying to get the heroine raped and an escape from a cellar or something. Never again.
I swear to God that Cold Steel was like some nightmare book in one of those Borges libraries -- finding the same page twice felt virtually impossible and the text was so dense that figuring out what was going on was agony.
December 3, 2024 at 3:02 AM
I swear to God that Cold Steel was like some nightmare book in one of those Borges libraries -- finding the same page twice felt virtually impossible and the text was so dense that figuring out what was going on was agony.
I love it too but have to put in a good word for the Alistair Sim version which is fantastic and also piles on even more Christmas-related trauma for Scrooge to the point where I'd be saying Bah, humbug as well 😁
December 2, 2024 at 10:54 PM
I love it too but have to put in a good word for the Alistair Sim version which is fantastic and also piles on even more Christmas-related trauma for Scrooge to the point where I'd be saying Bah, humbug as well 😁
That or one of those unreliable narrator novels where it alternates between the voice of the woman and the AI boyfriend. Actually, I'd read that! But I don't love the idea in real life.
December 2, 2024 at 5:44 AM
That or one of those unreliable narrator novels where it alternates between the voice of the woman and the AI boyfriend. Actually, I'd read that! But I don't love the idea in real life.
Everything about this article screams act I of a horror movie.
December 2, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Everything about this article screams act I of a horror movie.
I don't know what it meant; possibly he was hoping for some last-minute credit before entering the Hereafter, possibly unable to ignore the calendar that would have ruled his entire adult life. But something about it cuts across the centuries and invites sympathy.
November 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I don't know what it meant; possibly he was hoping for some last-minute credit before entering the Hereafter, possibly unable to ignore the calendar that would have ruled his entire adult life. But something about it cuts across the centuries and invites sympathy.
This was a priest who had spent decades doing his best to assist the king in pursuing unsavory political goals, who had kept a mistress and had several children, but who in the end could not bring himself to break a much simpler rule on a fasting day.
November 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
This was a priest who had spent decades doing his best to assist the king in pursuing unsavory political goals, who had kept a mistress and had several children, but who in the end could not bring himself to break a much simpler rule on a fasting day.
I always find it oddly affecting that on his last day, Wolsey refused to eat broth made with meat, as it was "a fasting day, and St. Andrew's Eve." On being reminded that illness excused him, his reply was "What, though? I will eat no more."
November 29, 2024 at 9:44 PM
I always find it oddly affecting that on his last day, Wolsey refused to eat broth made with meat, as it was "a fasting day, and St. Andrew's Eve." On being reminded that illness excused him, his reply was "What, though? I will eat no more."
It's thanks to Cavendish that we know of Anne Boleyn's love affair with Henry Percy, of her anger at Wolsey for separating them, and Wolsey's dying declaration that "if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."
November 29, 2024 at 9:44 PM
It's thanks to Cavendish that we know of Anne Boleyn's love affair with Henry Percy, of her anger at Wolsey for separating them, and Wolsey's dying declaration that "if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."
Beautifully written, I am thankful that you're here and speaking out. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Beautifully written, I am thankful that you're here and speaking out. Happy Thanksgiving!