![]() One of the few works by Prichard written in the first person, it is presented as a series of letters from “Kit” (one of Prichard’s nicknames) to her mother. The focus of this paper is an earlier, obscure serial, “A City Girl in Central Australia” (1906), which is not simply a work of fiction which can be read autobiographically, but rather a work playfully positioned on the boundary of fiction and autobiography. Notably, Prichard invited an autobiographical interpretation of her children’s novel, The Wild Oats of Han (1928), while discouraging it for her novel Intimate Strangers (1937). As a biographer of the Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969), I have found different relationships between her fiction and her life. ![]() Literary biographers often interpret their subjects’ fiction autobiographically, an approach which has been condemned by some critics. ![]()
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Hearts of gold catrin collier6/10/2023 ![]() All soon discovered that plague, famine and massacres could strike in palaces as well as pits. ![]() The immigrants were housed by John Hughes in his “New Russia Company” houses, living alongside aristocrats in manors, and peasants whose homes were holes scooped in the steppe. It rapidly gained notoriety as a hotbed of villainy, where murderers, thieves, whores and illicit love affairs flourished. John Hughes named and created Hughesovka, a town that offered opportunity. A charismatic visionary with enormous personal magnetism, John persuaded Britain’s old aristocracy and nouveau riche to invest in his venture, while concealing his greatest secret – he couldn’t write his name. He began by inviting Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes to build an ironworks on the Russian Steppe. A wealthy, successful, Victorian businessman, John left wife, family, mansion, and country to travel 1000 miles to a primitive backwater, medieval in state and outlook. In 1869, “modernising” Russian Tsar, Alexander 11 formulated a plan to drag Russia into the industrial age. ![]() ![]() ![]() THE TSAR’S DRAGONS – CLICK ON JACKET FOR AMAZON PAGE #ad THE HOSPITAL JOHN HUGHES BUILT OFOR HIS WORKERS ![]() Manga Messiah by Hidenori Kumai6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The book has been made to appeal to those aged 9-15 to try and help younger people learn about religion in a way that will entice them, I personally think this works really well, whether it is through manga or through graphic novel style drawing, images in my mind can always help gain my attention and stop me getting bored of what I am attempting to learn about. ![]() Now it didn’t necessarily make me want to accept christianity and become religious, but I did learn through a media that interests me highly and I wouldn’t have been able to do this as effectively through just the Bible alone. ![]() I myself never took an interest in the bible and yet through this book I was immediatly drawn in by the fact it was a graphic novel and I ended up quickly learning about the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This is a plain example of exactly what I want to portray. ‘Manga Messiah’ by Hidenori Kumai and Kozumi Shinozawa (2006) ![]() The devilish duke by maddison michaels6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Heartbroken, her mind is whirling, but that’s not the most painful part. The Devilish Duke begins with Lady Sophie spying on a man with whom she’s been in love with for a very long time, only to see him to propose to another. And they find not only their lives in jeopardy but their very hearts. Then Sophie becomes the target of a killer lurking from the dark shadows of Devlin’s past. A man who’s everything she’s always feared most-but whom she reluctantly begins yearning for. Even marry a ruthless rake who takes what he wants in business and pleasure. When Sophie learns her beloved orphanage is in imminent danger, she will do anything to save it. And oddly enough, Lady Sophie Wolcott seems unmoved by his charm… But he’s always thought love a wasted emotion and marriage an inconvenience at best. If he can’t woo one of the most eccentric bluestockings of the Ton within the month, he can kiss his hard-earned fortune good-bye. The Devilish Duke by Maddison Michaels – a ReviewĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / BAM / Book Depositoryĭevlin Markham, the notorious “Devil Duke” of Huntington, needs a woman. ![]() Great expectations acker6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Acker’s work addressed language as a site of contestation from which meaning and identity are both constructed and splintered. Through her prolific writing, Acker developed experimental textual methodologies as she distorted language, hybridised fiction and autobiography, ‘plagiarised’ the work of other authors, and introduced maps, drawings and diagrams.įor Acker, the use of the first-person singular was, in fact, plural, as she utilised the ‘I’ in her writing to inhabit different identities from her own life, fiction and history, acknowledging her complicated relationships with family, friends and lovers. The exhibition is accompanied by a small guide that offers an extensive insight also on her literary timeline.The guide is reprinted in full below (copyright ICA, London).Īcker is an exceptional figure in late-20th-century Western literature who moved between the avant-garde art and literary scenes of New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Paris and London. ![]() I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker is an exhibition and series of talks, discussion groups, performances and screenings built around the written, spoken and performed work of American writer Kathy Acker (1947–1997). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the writers include men and women, gay and straight, the results are fascinating and kaleidoscopic. some milieu that had not happened" and then address the theme of Alien or Other, with the Other being a lesbian or gay man. The editors asked contributors to "imagine a different landscape. ![]() This second volume of Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel's Bending the Landscape anthology series focuses on science fiction stories (the first book covered fantasy, and the third will cover horror). ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. These stories explore physical, emotional and moral landscapes vastly different from the familiar - where nothing is as it seems. Keith Hartman's "Sex, Guns, and Baptists" presents a disturbing view of how the world could end up if the Christian fundamentalists continue gaining political ground Ellen Klages takes a 90s dyke back forty years to 1950s San Francisco where she discovers her modern sensibilities are utterly alien to the lesbians of the time multiple award-winning Southern writer, Jim Grimsley, brings us to another world where aliens are all too human. Edited by world-renowned lesbian speculative fiction author Nicola Griffith and science fiction and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel, this groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable and daring writers - gay and straight - creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment. ![]() ![]() Frustrated, yet hesitant to push the issue, Mary agrees to press forward in the hopes of reaching a point where they can safely turn around. He is forced to admit to Mary that he's given up hope of finding Toketee Falls and that, furthermore, he had rejected an opportunity to turn around. While Mary takes a nap, Clark does indeed become increasingly lost on a narrow stretch of road. The two plan to visit Toketee Falls, and Clark insists on taking a road through the deep forest despite Mary's fears of becoming lost. Clark is being transferred out of state, so they opt to take a more scenic route. The title of the work, and the name of the town-Rock and Roll Heaven-both come from the chorus of " Rock and Roll Heaven", a song first recorded by Climax in 1973 which became a Top 10 hit by The Righteous Brothers the following year.Ĭlark and Mary Willingham are a couple traveling through Oregon. It concerns a young couple on a road trip in Oregon when they accidentally wander into a small town inhabited by dead rock and roll legends. ![]() ![]() It was first published January 1992 in the horror anthology Shock Rock and later included in King's collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" is a 1992 horror short story by American writer Stephen King. Short story by Stephen King "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" ![]() Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation, which offered a sort of heroic aura to members of the Ku Klux Klan, whose heinous actions are here made worse by the appearance of monstrous, extra-dimensional creatures called Klu Kluxes – essentially supernatural beasts able to wear human form. The story is set in Georgia, in 1922: never-vanquished racism is experiencing a resurgence thanks to the 1915 first showing of D.W. ![]() ![]() Ring Shout is the kind of book I jokingly call “a Tardis-like story”, one that is much bigger on the inside than it looks on the outside: it’s a well-crafted mix of historical fiction and horror that kept me compulsively turning the pages, and what’s more prompted me to search for its many references to facts or details I knew nothing about, so that I ended up with a little more knowledge than I possessed before I started reading, which is always a definite plus for me. ![]() Little big john crowley review6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I really meant to say “read.” Plunder is for pirates. Let’s face it, I read books now as a writer, which means I am in the business of unpacking the techniques and hidden machinery of every tome I plunder - sorry, not plunder: read. I belong to the latter crowd and what I love best about Little, Big (1981) is that I have only the most limited understanding of why the book affects me as it does. The second group adores Little, Big, and can barely speak coherently about it for fear of needing to sit down suddenly or perhaps burst into a gully-washer of hand-wringing tears. The first group raises baffled eyebrows and perhaps does not even make it through Book One when this group sat down to order, this is clearly not the meal they expected or wanted. Those who have read the book fall into two distinct categories. John Crowley’s novel Little, Big provokes in me exactly that response. One of the great pleasures of adulthood is stumbling onto those unexpected moments when the world reveals that it still has secrets to impart. ![]() ![]() Narrative of Sojourner Truth Aint I a Woman 0241472369 Book Cover. She distinctly remembers hearing her father and mother say, that their lot was a fortunate one, as Master Charles was the best of the family, -being, comparatively speaking, a kind master to his slaves. Narrative of Sojourner Truth 048629899X Book Cover. Second Inaugural Address Sojourner Truth, Aint I a Woman. ![]() She was the daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of one Colonel Ardinburgh, Hurley, Ulster County, New York.Colonel Ardinburgh belonged to that class of people called Low Dutch.Of her first master, she can give no account, as she must have been a mere infant when he died and she, with her parents and some ten or twelve other fellow human chattels, became the legal property of his son, Charles Ardinburgh. These notes are based on the 7th edition of America: A Narrative History by George Brown. ![]() ![]() THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself-but whose name, originally, was Isabella-was born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 17. ![]() |