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EMILY MIDORIKAWA and EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf. Reviewed by Justine Ettler

EMILY MIDORIKAWA and EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf. Reviewed by Justine Ettler

by NRB | 2 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction | 1 comment

From Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell to Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, Midorikawa and Sweeney celebrate the friendships between women writers.  I’ve heard people say that what ensures a writer’s continued productivity are things like having a...
EMILY BRONTË Wuthering Heights. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

EMILY BRONTË Wuthering Heights. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 16 Jun 2016 | Fiction | 0 comments

Sophisticated narrative layering and emotional insight make Wuthering Heights an extraordinary novel. I believe Wuthering Heights to be one of the best (if not the best) English novels of the 19th century, possibly ever. I’ve read it perhaps 20 times, taught it in...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the Victorians

The Godfather: Peter Corris on the Victorians

by NRB | 2 Oct 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

I first read Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) at school when it was a set text. I was very impressed by it, answered a question on it in the exams and got a good mark, although I’ve long forgotten what I wrote. At university, Hardy’s poems were set for...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on pseudonyms

by NRB | 23 Nov 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Back when my series characters Ray Crawley, Luke Dunlop and Richard Browning were losing favour with readers and publishers, a few people suggested I should have published the books under pseudonyms. It was well-meaning advice but it wouldn’t have worked. Pseudonyms...
             

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