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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Lady Emma Hamilton and Her “Attitudes”
About a year ago, I read Amanda Elyot’s Too Great A Lady: The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton. I found that Emma’s story, her rise from poverty to fame, really illustrated for me the importance of rank and position among the British aristocratic and royal circles in 18th century England. It was nearly impossible for a “nobody” to penetrate the ranks of society. Quite… Continue reading...
Currently Reading…The Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee
Synopsis: “London, 1711. As the rich, young offspring of the city’s most fashionable families fill their days with masquerade balls and clandestine court-ships, Arabella Fermor and Robert, Lord Petre, lead the pursuit of pleasure. Beautiful and vain, Arabella is a clever coquette with a large circle of beaus. Lord Petre, seventh Baron of Ingatestone, is a man-about-town with… Continue reading...
Posted in 18th Century, Alexander Pope, England, Society Scandals, Sophie Gee
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Joely Richardson To Play Catherine Parr on Showtime’s The Tudors
Joely Richardson was recently cast as Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Catherine Parr, on the fourth and final season of Showtime’s The Tudors. The series, which is currently filming in Dublin, Ireland, has won two Emmys for main theme title music and for costume design. Season four airs next spring… Continue reading...
Review | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Dial Press
Release Date: July 28th, 2008
Source: My bookshelf – I received this book as a gift.
To both my delight and dismay, this book was a very quick… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, Book Reviews, England, WWII
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Long Live The Queen…of Royal Fiction, That Is!*
New Yorkers, mark your calendars! I just discovered that Philippa Gregory will be gracing us with her presence at the new (and gigantic) Barnes & Noble store located at 86th St and Lexington Ave, on Wednesday, September 16th at 7 PM. This is just one of the many appearances she will be making while promoting her upcoming book, The White Queen (releasing August 18th). The White
Down the Rabbit Hole
I just couldn’t resist mentioning that Tim Burton recently released the first teaser trailer for his upcoming “Alice in Wonderland”. The film stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, and Polish actress Mia Wasikowska as Alice.
I realize that Lewis Carroll’s psychedelic tale of pipe-smoking caterpillars and mad tea parties is far from historical fiction, but… Continue reading...
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Currently Reading…The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie BarrowsSynopsis: “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
“January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, England, WWII
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How I Came To Be A Hist-Fic Chick
I have always been an avid reader of books, but my passion for the past began in my seventh grade social studies class. While most of my friends were hiding copies of Judy Blume books and Seventeen Magazine behind their academic readings pretending to be studying, I was nose deep in my history textbook, absorbing the stories of generations past as if they were exciting, fast-paced novels. I was able to… Continue reading...
On Order Emerging From Chaos…
While I wish I could share some clever anecdote about how this blog came to be, I must confess the truth: the present chaotic disarray of books wedged inside my petite Manhattan apartment, my comments scribbled in the margins of so many pages, has finally taken its toll on me. I cannot see to the bottom of my MacBook’s desktop for it is filled to the brim with lists upon… Continue reading...
Posted in About Me, Art, Sandro Botticelli
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