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Showing posts with label Antonia White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antonia White. Show all posts
Monday, 26 April 2021

Jean Rhys: feeling different and not belonging

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C arole Angier's biography of the novelist Jean Rhys contains some very  insightful remarks about her and her life. Some of these remark...
Monday, 11 January 2021

John Christopher’s Guardians: Part V

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T his article in the series inspired by John Christopher’s Guardians is mainly about some minor connections and a major influence that I de...
Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Stella Gibbons’s Amy Lee and the nightmare journey

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S tella Gibbons lived her entire life in the Hampstead and Highgate area of London; she displays her great knowledge of and love for ‘Ham ...
Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Context and the total picture: Part III

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T he previous article  in the series describes how some people who for better or worse put painful personal experiences into the context of ...
Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Jean Rhys and Antonia White: some similarities

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I have been working my way through Carole Angier’s definitive and very detailed biography of the writer Jean Rhys.  Jean Rhys: Life and W...
Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Context and the total picture: Part II

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P art I  introduces the idea that putting painful experiences into the context of the lives of well-known people can have both positive and ...
Monday, 15 June 2020

Antonia White and a few more familiar elements

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T his article contains a few more examples of elements that Antonia White had in common with other people featured on here.  Telepathic con...
Monday, 8 June 2020

Antonia White, a gold coin and impressionable children

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T his article was inspired by an incident that I read about in the novelist Antonia White’s account of her early childhood in As Once in May...
Sunday, 17 May 2020

Antonia White's travel nightmare

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T he novelist Antonia White describes a nightmare journey in her unfinished autobiographical novel Clara IV. C lara goes on holiday to Aust...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Antonia White, Terry Pratchett, snakes and a big coincidence

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T he novelists Antonia White and Stella Benson have more in common than biographical material that has a very depressing and exasperating ef...
Monday, 4 May 2020

Antonia White, cults and independent thinking

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T his article was inspired by something very disturbing that I read in As Once in May , a collection of Antonia White’s autobiographical wri...
Monday, 13 April 2020

Balancing the books: a problem and a solution

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I started an article about Terry Pratchett’s witch Tiffany Aching  by saying what a great relief it was for me to turn to his books after r...
Saturday, 21 March 2020

Passing it on: Enid Blyton and Antonia White

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T his is another article about people who suffered at the hands of their parents then went on to make their own children suffer in much the ...
Saturday, 11 August 2018

Elizabeth Taylor’s Angel: wanting and getting

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A further article or two about Elizabeth Taylor’s novel Angel has been outstanding for a long time now. A ngel has inspired three previ...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015

The little smile and the gleam in the eye: another sinister scenario

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T here is an unpleasant phenomenon that occurs in some people’s lives. Unlike other unseen influences, energy vampirism for example, there ...
Saturday, 26 April 2014

Diana Wynne Jones’s witch Aunt Maria: part I

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A unt Maria appears in Diana Wynne Jones’s Black Maria aka Aunt Maria . She operates and does a lot of damage on more than one level: she ...
Thursday, 1 October 2009

Alcotts and Brontës and psychic crime

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W hen I first read some biographies of the Brontë and the Alcott families, I immediately noticed some connections and common patterns. So...