Litfic
( Continuing my slow progress through the oeuvre of May Sinclair )

Lunar eclipse! As we came out of the National Theatre there were groups of people standing and looking up at the sky and at first we couldn't see what they were looking at and then we saw the half-moon cut the wrong way (across instead of lengthways) in the sky. By the time we got home the eclipse was complete. But now there is just a faint sliver ( Read more... )

Well, actually the first one I meant to link to I can't find on Guardian website: advance article on forthcoming British Library exhibition on Elizabeth Barrett (Browning) b. 1806, happy 200th, half of one of the most famous-ever virtually-met couples. Foregrounds EBB's feminism, but I don't really think there's much of a case for turning Mr ( Read more... )