The Brontës Rebooted
Juliet Barker has published a revised edition of her landmark biography, The Brontës with new material, including letters and juvenilia not available when the original edition was published eighteen years ago.
Category: Authors
A collection of author posts
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was the daughter of a Congregational preacher, the sister of five preachers, and the husband of another. She was raised in a family that …
RIP: Harry Crews
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[/caption]Novelist Harry Crews has died from complications from neuropathy. Crews, who died at his home in Gainesville, Florida, was 76. “He had been very ill,” his ex-wife, Sally Crews, tells the Associated Press in this report. “In a way it was kind of a blessing. He was in a lot of pain.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a rich and darkly morbid story that showcases Hawthorne’s art at its most sensuous and florid. It is the story …
Genesis of “The Dead” by James Joyce
For “The Dead” James Joyce drew upon an incident in Galway in 1903. There a young man named Michael (“Sonny”) Bodkin was courting Nora Barnacle …