"Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance." Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' inNo Name(1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that ofThe Woman in WhiteorThe Moonstone. For its family secret - the Vanstone daughters' illegitimacy, their consequent disinheritance and fall from social grace - is revealed early on, and as Magdalen Vanstone struggles to reclaim her identity, the plot uncovers many a moral, social and legal skeleton in...
"Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance." Wilkie Collins's investi...
There is some connexion (I like the way the English spell it They re so clever about some things Probably smarter generally than we are Although there is supposed to be something We have that they don 't 'don t ask me What it is. . . .) John Ashbery, Tenth Symphony "Something We Have That They Don t" presents a variety of essays on the relationship between British and American poetry since 1925. The essays collected here all explore some aspect of the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations of the last seventy years. Since the dawn of...
There is some connexion (I like the way the English spell it They re so clever about some things Probably smarter generally than we are