If you are a Jane Austen fan, you don't just read her six novels. You read her letters, her unfinished works and her juvenilia. And you read them more than once. So it is that I have just - for my local Jane Austen group - reread Love and freindship (sic), the short epistolary novel … Continue reading Jane Austen, Love and freindship (Review)
18th century literature
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Would you believe the issue of fact and fiction is consciously raised in yet another novel I've read? In his preface to The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole suggests that it's possible the story - which he tells us that he "found" and translated - is based on fact. And he concludes that: If a … Continue reading Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Whispering Gums 