This, I think, does count as actual rediscovery of a neglected, if not entirely forgotten, author of the 60s/70s: Lost Beneath the Waves of Time: Jane Gaskell in/and the ’60s (and reading that I realise that she was a lacuna in those studies of Angry Young/Rebel Women Writers of the same period, but probably she was just too Out There and In Genre ( Read more... )

Somehow I feel this is not going to be The Egg and I for the C21st, for lo, it does not sound like an entire barrel of laughs (I did not even know that 'backyard chickens' constituted a movement):
Review of Gina G. Warren. Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement. If you are interested in learning about a burgeoning and complex ( Read more... )

More and more:

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Seconding the emotion:

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Composing the song my heart hears

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Go to the Go-Go -

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There are many versions of this, but one of the best (and rather off his usual track)

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Still got it - 2016 medley:

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Suspend your belief on a very fragile thread - though it is a rom-com, so being prepared to accept the dubiously realistic is there from the get go: Tartan and tinsel: a Scottish castle-dwelling novelist on Brooke Shields’ new romcom: [T]his is not a film you want to get into authenticity arguments with.... Obviously, they have never had a ( Read more... )

I've just been reading Celia Brayfield, Rebel Writers: Seven Women Who Changed Their World (2019), which, though it covers some of the same territory as Anne Wellman, Angry Young Women: six writers of the sixties (2020), is actually rather different in approach. Also, leaves out Penelope Mortimer, only passingly mentions Drabble, adds in Charlotte ( Read more... )

Have been feeling lethargic and lackadaisickal most of the week, during which I had hoped to have written a report on a book proposal for an academic press. Suspect that they want rather more than: 'This will be a major contribution to the historiography, thoroughly researched, has read the relevant literature, author has solid track record', with ( Read more... )

I put this on my 'interesting?' list a while ago, and I recently noted that it was Very Cheap On Kindle, so bought it.
It is, I apprehend, self-published: this is the author's website.
It's about six young women writers of the 60s who wrote plays/books that are a) now considered iconic of the period and continue to be produced/reprinted b) had ( Read more... )

Born on this day, 1939, Dusty Springfield, acclaimed pop singer, and 'Since her death.... commended as the leading 20th-century British soul singer'. Also an habitue of the Gateways, Chelsea, and had several somewhat troubled relationships with women, at a time when, even with the advent of the so-called 'permissive society', this was still not ( Read more... )

Icon of my youth and several decades of adulthood, Katharine Whitehorn has died aged 93, having had Alzheimers for some years (I think I read a piece a few years ago by her son about deciding to put her in full-time nursing care).
I devoured her columns as they came out in The Observer, and in later years have accumulated what I think is the ( Read more... )

Like, in previous years I am sure the advice columns were all 'how do I deal with compulsory getting together with FAAAAMILY for trad celebration angst angst angst' -
- but on reflection, probably the people who were heavying them into obligation to get together with FAAAAMILY for trad celebration are the ones who are blithely going ahead and ( Read more... )