The little white attic

The two women at the centre of Vanity Fair are Rebecca (Becky) Sharp and Amelia (Emmy) Sedley, who are later Mrs Rawdon Crawley and Mrs Geo...

Hello there. I haven’t been blogging lately because I wasn’t in the mood, having an excruciating toothache for over a week (wisdom teeth). T...

See part 1 , in which I wrote about my reading of female authors and the call to read more women.  See part 2 , in which I talked at length ...

I recently had some conversations with 2 friends on Twitter about The Age of Innocence , particularly the ending, which reminded me of a blo...

See my earlier blog post about reading women .  1/ With the plan of reading more books by women this year, so far I have read:  - Edith...

- 10 favourite novels (updated):  The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu  Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy M...

Me being featured at The Common Breath : talking about Jane Austen, Murasaki Shikibu, Lev Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Nguyễn Du, and some other...

It probably shows how bad my concentration is, or how little patience I have, during the lockdown that midway through Edith Wharton’s autobi...

Many people often foolishly think Jane Austen’s a romance author—the mother of chicklit. Indeed all her 6 novels follow the marriage plot, a...

I’ve finished reading The Age of Innocence . A magnificent novel. It must be Edith Wharton’s best book.  “… he had built up within himself...

Writing about Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf ponders, if she had lived longer:  “She would have devised a method, clear and composed as ever,...

Edith Wharton can sure write about passion. Look:  “"Then stay with me a little longer," Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just...