Clik here to view.
Crying Tears of Laughter: Irenosen Okojie and Yvette Edwards
In her work as a reviewer for the Sunday Times, Dorothy L. Sayers often took the opportunity to praise the work of her friend Agatha Christie – calling Murder on the Orient Express, for example, ‘a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reading Between the Lines: what we’ve learned from the letters of George...
Inspired by our reading of Daphne du Maurier’s letters, this month Emma Claire and I have been thinking about what we know and can’t know about the various writer friends we’ve profiled on Something...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Through the Good Times and the Bad – George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe
In last week’s post on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford, Emma and I set ourselves the challenge to reflect on the role of consolation in other literary friendships that we have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Margaret Mason, Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley, the celebrated author of Frankenstein, needs little introduction, whereas her friend Margaret Mason may be less familiar. Born into a wealthy Anglo-Irish family in 1773, Margaret King, as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Singing Each Other’s Songs
As we mentioned in last week’s post, Margaret Mason’s relationship with Mary Shelley – the daughter of her former governess Mary Wollstonecraft – changed dramatically over the years. Thinking about the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Charlotte Brontё and Mary Taylor
Back in 2014, we profiled Charlotte Brontё’s friendship with the author of Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell. Theirs was a fascinating bond, but – important though Gaskell was to Brontё – another writer,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More on Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë – female friendship and the novel,...
We are looking forward to seeing those of you who can make it at our upcoming literary salons at NYU London on Thursday 28 April, Wednesday 4 May and Thursday 12 May. Times: 6.30-9pm. Tickets are free,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein (and Alice B. Toklas)
Regular readers of this blog will perhaps remember Alice Fitzgerald’s post on the friendship between Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker, edited by Kathleen Dixon Donnelly. Today, Kathleen writes a post...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Chapters: From co-authors to creative companions
On the day when our joint book comes out in paperback in North America, it is my great honour to announce that Emily’s new non-fiction book, Out of the Shadows, will be published by Counterpoint Press...
View Article
