The little white attic

In June, I finally got to visit the Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire.  In September, I visited Jane Austen’s grave at Winch...

 1/ When I picked up Cecilia , I wanted to promote Frances Burney—why is she not better known and widely read?  Look at her achievements. As...

1/ Evelina , Frances Burney’s first book, is an epistolary novel, but because it’s mainly composed of Evelina’s letters narrating her experi...

 1/ When asked whether we know a writer if we only read them in translation, I suppose most people would say either yes or no. I think it de...

I suppose I’m part of the problem.   “Why do they keep adapting Jane Austen a zillion times instead of Frances Burney?”, I asked. And yet I ...

1/ A Shakespeare fan never runs out of things to read.  I’ve been enjoying If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation ...

Hồi trước, tôi đã gom lại một mớ bài thơ tục của Hồ Xuân Hương. Nhưng Hồ Xuân Hương tất nhiên đâu chỉ viết thơ tục. Giờ gom lại một số bài v...

The first thing I’m gonna say is that I don’t particularly like reading poetry in translation (look, I don’t even read much poetry in the or...

1/ Look at the defence of novels in Northanger Abbey :  ““I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read n...