a gallimaufry

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars, by Francesca Wade

Glossing over my long absence from the Internet, I am back to enthuse about a book that most of you have already heard of and maybe read. (If you have read it, write your Thoughts in the comment section below this post!) I shall have to ...

trailing the modernists

This is my reading list on modernism. It’s a work in progress and any suggestions gratefully received, especially with regard to poetry and drama about which I am particularly ignorant. At the moment I’m staying with works written before...

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, by Theodora Goss

(Detail from Fernand Khnopff, I Lock the Door Upon Myself (1891), inspired by a poem by Christina Rossetti; found here) I’m very fond of Theodora Goss’s short stories, so when I saw that she was publishing a novel I was excited and orde...