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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Fanny Kemble’s Damning Journal about Slavery on a Southern Plantation

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Frances Anne Kemble is a series of journal entries that she wrote in the f...
Friday, October 21, 2022

‘Lady Susan’ by Jane Austen Is a Spiteful Piece of Work

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  Author Sophia Alexander with 'Lady Susan' by Jane Austen Mrs. Vernon waited on Lady Susan, shortly after her arrival in town; and...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Edwin Green's 'The Indians of South Carolina' is a Quick, Cheerful Read

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Author Sophia Alexander holding her comb-bound PDF copy of Edwin Green's charming volume about the natives of SC. In honor of Indigeno...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

'Tapestry' Long-Listed for the Laramie Book Awards by Chanticleer International

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I've just found out that both Susan Higginbotham's latest novel and my own were long-listed for the Laramie Book Awards 2022 by Chan...
Friday, September 30, 2022

'Mansfield Park' by Jane Austen a Disappointment in Ideals

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Sophia Alexander with her omnibus of Jane Austen works, read in full over a quarter-century ago! I am continuing my trek back through Jane A...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Brontë Is Intense, Intelligent, and Far From Ideal

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"No sight so sad as that of a naughty child... What must you do to avoid [burning in hell forever]?"... "I must keep in good ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Sophia Dorothea of Celle's birthday

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  Happy 356th birthday to Sophia Dorothea of Celle, wife of Prince George Louis of Hanover, who later became King George I of Great Britain....