In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Jo March goes crazy for a novel called Undine. But what is it, and who is it by? Thomas Ruys-Smith goes digging for answers. Continue reading »
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Non-Christmas Christmas Cinema
One of the best things about Christmas is the sheer volume of films on the television schedule. I’m sure many, if not all of you, have by now bought the Christmas Radio Times, reached for your favourite highlighter pen and marked which films you want to watch, sky + or illegally download. As our blog … Continue reading »
Have Yourself a Henry James Christmas
Henry James left America for England in 1876 and stayed for the next three decades. Here, taken from his travel memoir English Hours, James describes a late-19th century Christmas spent in the North of England. Continue reading »
