Rosemary Hennessy In the Company of Radical Women Writers University of Minnesota Press, August 2023. Thank you NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Rosemary Hennessy’s stories from Black, Jewish, and white women who saw communism as an answer to the problems arising from the Great Depression is a riveting read. PerhapsContinue reading “Week beginning 20th March 2024”
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Week beginning 7 September 2023
Barbara Pym, her novels and her relationship with her sister, Hilary, are at the forefront of my mind this week. I have just attended the Barbara Pym Conference on the theme of sisterhood, so Some Tame Gazelle (first published 1950, Virago Modern Classics 2009) is an appropriate place to begin. Barbara Pym’s first published novelContinue reading “Week beginning 7 September 2023”
Week beginning 26 April 2023
Publishing I have begun this week’s blog with a great story about publishing from a Western Australian author, Gordon d’Venables. I referred to his new book, Hunted, last week. Star of the South, which, from what I recall of our discussion in January 2021 in Perth, is rather different from the earlier publications, will beContinue reading “Week beginning 26 April 2023”
Week beginning 2 March 2022
Reviewing Tom Stoppard A Life was an interesting process – looming large was the question ‘How did I enjoy the plays of this conservative person who, in my opinion, dined too many times with Margaret Thatcher? The closest I could come to recalling any sense of political unease was at the end of seeing NightContinue reading “Week beginning 2 March 2022”
Week beginning 12 January 2022
A Western Australian writer, Liz Byrski author of At the End of the Day, and Jane Cockram, another Australian, are featured this week. Both books are uncorrected proofs sent to me by NetGalley for review. Liz Byrski At the End of the Day Macmillan Australia, 2021. Liz Byrski has once again given voices to peopleContinue reading “Week beginning 12 January 2022”
Week beginning 17 November 2021
This week’s post concentrates on voting rights, in America, the UK and Australia. The most significant are the changes proposed in America to introduce voting legislation such as the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Act designed to overcome discriminatory legislation already in place. In the UK and Australia the demands thatContinue reading “Week beginning 17 November 2021”
Week beginning 17th March 2021
Book Reviews: Julia Cooke, Come Fly The World, The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. Women’s History Month Women’s March 4 Women Rally Canberra 15 March Thousands of people, predominantly women, but with plenty of men, children and dogs also in attendance, rallied at Parliament House, Canberra. TheContinue reading “Week beginning 17th March 2021”
Week beginning 3 March 2021
Book Review: Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can, Edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore, Library of America, 16 February 2021. Thank you to Net Galley for this copy for review. With Women’s History Month being celebrated in March, this collection seems the most relevant with which to beginContinue reading “Week beginning 3 March 2021”
Week beginning 20th January
Spending a week in Perth was a pleasant reminder of the tremendous effort that Australians, in the main, are putting into keeping Australia as Covid 19 free as possible. Masks are now mandatory in the Canberra and Perth airports, and on Qantas flights, unless eating or drinking. An interesting observation in the city of PerthContinue reading “Week beginning 20th January”
Week beginning 6th January 2021
Television Comments: The Good Fight ; The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit. ‘Well, Mr President, the challenge that you have, is that the data you have is just wrong’ Brad Raffensberger to Trump. This week’s American top election story, the attempt to change the vote cast in Georgia, seems to be the height of President Trump’sContinue reading “Week beginning 6th January 2021”
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