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Today's Crossword: Here's why the Brontë sisters had to pretend to be men gulfnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gulfnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions. The popular “A” list can be found here, and the full alphabetical index is here. Please comment to add any B writers that I may have missed, and of course to argue with my choices. I’m linking to my posts on the books where I have made such posts. My B shelf begins with a disturbingly large number of copies of Destinies, a paperback SF magazine edited by Jim Baen in my own personal golden age of the late seventies and early eighties. How I loved it and waited eagerly for new copies to arrive in the bookshop! There doesn’t seem much point recommending it now—but if you happen to see copies lying around it’s still worth picking up for the Spider Robinson reviews (lacerating books most people have now forgotten) the Pournelle essays on space futures and technology, the stories from new exciting authors like Orson Scott Card and established favourites like Anderson, Le Guin, Pohl, and Sheckley. Start randomly, but if I had to pick one it’s the copy dated Fall 1980, with part of Heinlein’s
Walking the Invisible Most of us need little impetus to enjoy a revisit to the Brontë sisters’ exhilarating novels… But if you are seeking inspiration for summer reading AND walking, head for the hills of West Yorkshire with Michael Stewart’s literary guide through the walks and nature of the Brontë sisters and you’ll soon be treading the wild moorland that formed the memorable backdrop to literary masterpieces like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Stewart, who was born and raised in Salford, had still not encountered the Brontës’ books by the time he left his rundown comprehensive school at sixteen to work in a factory. And it wasn’t until he borrowed Wuthering Heights from the library and read it on the bus as he travelled to and from his workplace that his ‘Brontë fever’ was born.
A Treasure Trove of Rare Brontë Sisters Manuscripts and Books Is Expected to Fetch Millions at Auction Angelica Villa for ARTNews A trove of Brontë family manuscripts that have been out of the public eye for a century will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of a sale largely devoted to 20th-century documents by literary giants. Highlights from the collection, known as the Honresfield Library, will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York headquarters from June 5 to 9 before the works are auctioned across three sales scheduled to take place this year and in 2022. The first auction will be held online with bidding open from July 2 to July 13.
Bronte family manuscripts, unseen for a century, to be auctioned theage.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theage.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Thereâs a line at the opening of Kiley Reidâs hit debut, Such a Fun Age, that encapsulates the drama at the heart of the recent spate of nanny novels. Emira, a young black woman dressed for a night out, is stopped by a security guard in an upscale supermarket with Briar, the white child she looks after. Itâs late, the guard wants to know where Briarâs parents are. He wonât let Emira leave with her. âBut sheâs my child right now,â she tells the guard. âIâm her sitter. Iâm technically her nanny â¦â
Tales of loss, living and more on our shelves this month republicaneagle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from republicaneagle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Charlotte Brontë Facts | Mental Floss mentalfloss.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mentalfloss.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
kvkirillov/iStock via Getty Images They say that a dog is a man's best friend, but these writers found solace—and occasional inspiration—in another four-legged companion. Celebrate your own love of cats with these 13 feline-loving scribes. 1. Mark Twain Alamy Mark Twain—the great humorist and man of American letters—was also a great cat lover. When his beloved black cat Bambino went missing, Twain took out an advertisement in the New York American offering a $5 reward to return the missing cat to his house at 21 Fifth Avenue in New York City. It described Bambino as “Large and intensely black; thick, velvety fur; has a faint fringe of white hair across his chest; not easy to find in ordinary light.” The cat, fortunately, was alright and returned home.