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Showing posts with label Stella Benson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stella Benson. 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...
Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Stella Gibbons’s My American and writing: Part I

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A s previously mentioned, Stella Gibbons makes some insightful comments about writers, writing and the imagination in her novel My American ...
Friday, 31 July 2020

Artemis Fowl and the demon cult leader: Part I

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I read the first three of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl  fantasy novels when they were first published. I remembered them recently when compil...
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...
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, 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...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Stella Benson, Douglas Adams and the total picture disaster

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T he novelist and travel writer Stella Benson, who has inspired many articles, had some good insights about herself and her life. S he may...
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...
Sunday, 5 January 2020

January 6th and a few associated birthdays

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S ome aspects of the lives of Stella Gibbons and Stella Benson  were compared in the post that marked their birthdays. T here are a few mo...
Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Joyce Collin-Smith: imagination, alienation, and an imaginary friend

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N ovelist and journalist Joyce Collin-Smith’s autobiographical work Call No Man Master has inspired many articles to date, and t here is st...
Sunday, 21 July 2019

Stella Benson and L. M. Montgomery

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T his article summarises a few common elements in the lives of novelists Lucy Maud Montgomery and Stella Benson. T hey both had something ...
Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Stella Benson's diaries

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I came across this quotation from L. M. Montgomery recently: “ Only lonely people keep diaries.” S he kept a diary from the age of...
Tuesday, 9 July 2019

More words about writing from L. M. Montgomery

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T his article contains a few more hard-hitting quotations on the subject of writers and writing from L. M. Montgomery. S he seems ambiv...
Thursday, 20 June 2019

The two worlds of L. M. Montgomery

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C anadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for her Anne of Green Gables series, has recently become a person of interest. S he wi...
Friday, 26 April 2019

Stella Benson, two men, and great disillusionment

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S trindberg’s ignoring of his initial feelings of mistrust when he met the mystery man who became his ‘former American friend’ has reminded ...
Thursday, 11 April 2019

Stella Benson’s very true words about pain

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A s I learned recently from reading Joy Grant’s biography, the novelist Stella Benson experienced a lot of pain in her life. S he had th...
Thursday, 28 March 2019

More about Stella Benson’s travel nightmares

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T he novelist Stella Benson travelled the world. She saw some beautiful buildings and scenery, she gained a variety of new experiences and s...
Sunday, 17 March 2019

Stella Benson’s Living Alone: Part VII

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T his is the final article in the series inspired by Stella Benson’s fantasy novella Living Alone. T here is still more to say about Sarah B...
Friday, 15 March 2019

Stella Benson’s Living Alone: Part VI

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T his article in the series inspired by Stella Benson’s fantasy novella Living Alone   has more to say about Richard the Wizard  and his mot...