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Brief Encounters
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, countless distinguished writers made the long and arduous voyage across the seas to Australia. They came to give lecture tours and make money, to sort out difficult children sent here to be out of the way; for health, for science, to escape demanding spouses back home, or simply to satisfy a sense of adventure. In 1890, for example, Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny arrived at Circular Quay after a dramatic sea voyage only to be refused entry at the Victoria, one of Sydney's most elegant hotels. Stevenson threw a tantrum, but was forced to go to a cheaper, less fussy establishment. Next day, the Victoria's manager, recognising the famous ...
Jane Austen
"Jane Austen wrote her six novels in a small English village almost 200 years ago. She never travelled abroad and she never mentioned Australia or New Zealand. So why do people "down under" read her novels today? Why do they watch films based on her books in record-breaking numbers? Why do they find her plots, characters and ideas so relevant to their lives? ..."--Back cover.
Celebrating Pride and Prejudice
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2012 by Frances Lincoln Limited under the title Happily ever after: a celebration of Pride and prejudice"--T.p. verso.
A Dance with Jane Austen
“The period illustrations and dance diagrams are charming, but Fullerton's discussion of dance in Austen's novels is both incisive and entertaining. From the Netherfield ball in Pride and Prejudice to Anne Elliot playing the piano as her friends dance in Persuasion, Fullerton explains how dancing moves the action forward in each book and what it reveals about various characters. (She even draws heavily on the unfinished The Watsons.) By the end, readers will long to revisit the dance scenes in Austen's world and follow her heroines' practice of talking over the ball afterward with friends over a cup of tea. A beautifully illustrated exploration of dance in the life and novels of Jane Austen. “ -Shelf Awareness Drawing on contemporary accounts and illustrations, and a close reading of the novels as well as Austen's correspondence, Susannah Fullerton takes the reader through all the stages of a Regency Ball as Jane Austen and her characters would have known it.
Jane Austen and Crime
Jane Austen and Crime shows the crimes Jane Austen included in her novels, puts them into the context of the Georgian age, and examines, for the first time. the symbolism and morality of crime and punishment in her fiction. It shows how Jane Austen's contemporaries would have reacted to these crimes and how they would have been punished.--Back cover.
Jane and I
Literary memoir
Happily Ever After
“An intelligent and generous companion to Pride and Prejudice: its author and her era, characters, language, reception, [and] adaptations.” —Sydney Morning Herald Pride and Prejudice has a fair claim to being the world’s favorite novel. Read and studied from Cheltenham to China, it’s been translated into many languages and made into countless films. This book, from longtime Jane Austen Society of Australia president Susannah Fullerton, describes how Austen wrote her masterpiece, its lukewarm initial reception, and its evolving popularity. As well as discussing sex-symbol Mr. Darcy, charming heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and the superb range of comic characters, she discusses the novel...
Jane Austen and Crime
This new approach to Austen and her works uncovers the renowned author's fascination with illegality and its brutal consequences. From murder, adultery, and duelling to gaols, hangings, and stocks, this book examines the criminal landscape of Austen's England and highlights its significance in her novels.
Robert Burns
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David's Crown
As well as the name of a virus, a corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible’s 150 psalms as they appear in William Coverdale’s timeless translation. The Psalms express every human emotion with disarming honesty, as anger and thankfulness alike are directed at God. All of life is here with its moments of beauty and its times of despair and shame. Like the Psalms themselves, the poems do not avoid the cursing and glorying over the downfall of your enemies, but wrestle honestly with them as we do when we come to say them.
