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Showing posts with label Marie Corelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marie Corelli. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 August 2020

Artemis Fowl and the demon cult leader: Part II

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T he other demon of interest in Eoin Colfer's  Lost Colony is called Leon Abbot. He is one of the worst of the demons and the secret en...
Monday, 27 January 2020

Public libraries present

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F or much of my life, I took the existence of public libraries for granted: they were just there. I can now look at them more objectively an...
Tuesday, 21 August 2018

Elizabeth Taylor’s Angel: some miscellaneous thoughts

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T his final article in the series inspired by Elizabeth Taylor’s novel Angel includes some more connections and a few miscellaneous points ...
Sunday, 27 August 2017

Benjamin Disraeli: clothes, debts and a very happy marriage

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I have been looking at more information about Benjamin Disraeli’s life, personality and political career. He is still a man of mystery to ...
Saturday, 15 July 2017

Benjamin Disraeli and some more unseen influences

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B enjamin Disraeli the eminent Victorian, the prime minister of  what was at the time the greatest power on earth, the  statesman and super...
Monday, 1 May 2017

The childhood of Marie Corelli

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I described some painful events in the life of the Queen of Victorian Best-sellers Marie Corelli  recently. Writing about an episode in Ru...
Friday, 14 April 2017

Rudyard Kipling and the House of Desolation: Part I

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T here is an episode in Rudyard Kipling's childhood that is of great interest to me: the miserable years of torment spent in what he la...
Monday, 27 March 2017

Exploitation and unfinished business in the life of Marie Corelli

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T here are some lessons to be learned from the financially successful but personally sad life of the best-selling Victorian novelist Marie C...
Saturday, 26 March 2016

Elizabeth Taylor’s Angel: witches and writers

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E lizabeth Taylor’s novel Angel has inspired two previous articles: A ngel’s  Imagination  covers the ways in which a very strong, act...
Monday, 21 March 2016

Elizabeth Taylor’s Angel: her life and personality

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A ngel Deverell is the main character in Elizabeth Taylor’s novel Angel .   She has provided much more article material than I was expectin...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

Elizabeth Taylor’s Angel: her imagination

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I  first heard about Elizabeth Taylor’s novel Angel when it turned up in the results of a Google Search for “Marie Corelli”.  I had nev...
Saturday, 30 January 2016

Being positive can occasionally backfire

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I have learned from experience that our inner state often determines our experiences, so we can definitely change our lives for the better...
Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Angela Brazil, her brother, and the child prodigy pianist

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R eading about J. M. Barrie and his infiltration of the Llewelyn Davies family has reminded me of a chilling little story that I read in Th...