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Mr Orwell dramatised
Part One: Animal Farm. David Stuart Davies looks at the various attempts to dramatise George Orwell’s allegorical novella of Stalinist Russia.
Centenary of the publication of ‘Women in Love’
David Ellis celebrates the centenary of the publication of ‘Women in Love’, arguably D.H. Lawrence’s best novel.
The Gothic Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Carver looks at the life of probably the most innovative and influential figure in 19th century American literature.
‘Based on the Writings of Henry James’
The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Bly Manor: Stephen Carver takes up the story
Stephen Carver looks at Lady Audley’s Secret
Stephen Carver looks at Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s classic example of Victorian ‘Sensation Fiction’, which helped create the template for modern crime fiction.
David Stuart Davies looks at Lorna Doone
David Stuart Davies looks at R.D. Blackmore’s romantic West Country classic.
Black Beauty and Chronic Illness
Pippa Stacey finds a connection with Anna Sewell’s Children’s Classic beyond the book itself.
Sally Minogue celebrates The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
2020 marks the 150th anniversary of Robert Tressell’s birth; Sally Minogue celebrates his iconic novel, ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
Stephen Carver looks at Moll Flanders
‘Thus I gave up myself to a readiness of being ruined without the least concern, and am a fair Memento to all young Women, whose Vanity prevails over their Virtue.’ Stephen Carver looks at Daniel Defoe’s novel of the progress of a poor orphan girl in 17th century England.