The little white attic

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

1/ Anyone who reads The Tale of Genji must sometimes wonder: but what does Murasaki Shikibu think? How does she really feel about Genji and ...

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

Whilst many people are reading Emma together (2015 marks the 200th anniversary of Emma ; and 5 days ago was Jane Austen's 240th birthd...

It is perhaps considered backward and narrow-minded, even sexist, to speak of the gender of a writer and of their creations, as though the d...

A critique of Daniel Deronda in the form of a short story, or rather, a play.  There are 3 characters.  Theodora adores George Eliot and ...

The line "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" in Middlemarch reminds me of the line ...

Page 193 of Middlemarch : "These were actually Lydgate's first meditations as he walked away from Mr Vincy's, and on this gro...

https://rippleeffects.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/what-was-jane-austen-really-like-reading-cassandra-jane/ https://rippleeffects.wordpress.com...

This post is a response to Caroline's comment here: http://thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.no/2015/04/literature-reading-taste-critiques.h...

The other day, in The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, I read the introduction and several chapters on Snow Whi...