Blogs Posts on "19th Century Rehab"

The Dead Man's Message by Florence Marryat by dovegreyreader scribbles on Oct 26, 2009No sooner was I deposited in post-Booker nineteenth-century rehab with my prescription ready to be dispensed, than to my rescue with emergency supplies came Catherine of Victorian Secrets, a small independent publisher busy reviving neglected ninetee...

The Magnificent Mrs Tennant by David Waller by dovegreyreader scribbles on Jul 6, 2009A quick glance at an e mail containing the words Tennant and David in the subject line and it's a mistake there for the making. Once I'd realised it wasn't David Tennant I was still very grateful to David Waller...

The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan by dovegreyreader scribbles on May 18, 2009'All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of "Currer Bell" In quiet "Haworth" laid.' My desk reading this year is The Poems of Emily Dickinson, a beautiful hardback edition propped on a book rest...

Brontemania by dovegreyreader scribbles on May 3, 2009'The first requirement for myth status is a story that is so compelling in its original form that it is endlessly reinterpreted according to the tastes and concerns of each contemporary society and the literary genre which captures them.' Wise...