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Sunday, July 27, 2025
"So rapturous a delight": What Jane Austen's characters read (and why), part 1
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The Reader by Marguerite Gérard and Jean Honoré Fragonard, c. 1786. Image source: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge In her book What Jane...
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Fingersmith
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Cover of the U.S. edition of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Riverhead, 2002). Image source: Underground Books on Abebooks.com The story ma...
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the abolition of the British slave trade
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Amazing Grace DVD cover. Image source: Amazon.com Amazing Grace (2006) tells the story of William Wilberforce and the abolitionist cam...
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