Just read @dlbirch1 ‘s fascinating & positive 2-page @TheTLS review of @avrilhorner1’s new bio of novelist Barbara Comyns.I’ve got Comyns’s Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead. Remarkable, & kin to Ursula Holden - both neglected.Great work by today’s women critics on our shared past
This Sunday on Radio 3, 6.45 UK time, a stellar company helps me tell the story of Robert Greene and the precarious lives of university graduates. Oh yes, that other young whippersnapper of a playwright makes a brief appearance-- what was his name again?
https://t.co/SjUDwCGTCJ
Tomorrow evening, @dlbirch1 delivers the 23rd-annual Ruskin Lecture on the subject of "Mariana at Work: Ruskin and Gender."
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Some very shrewd reflections here, on both the promising aspects of the new REF regulations and the need to be careful to frame the more radical features to guard against unintended consequences.
'O’Brian cared about the historical authenticity of his fiction, and if you have ever wondered about the difference between a flying jib and a main topgallant, he is the man to explain.' (@dlbirch1)
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@ABRACKENBURY Hello! Lovely to hear from you, too. That photograph really needs to be replaced. It was taken a good few years ago ... as the saying goes, it's weird being the same age as old people. Don't prune Village too much!
I don't want to miss a word ...