If you happen to be in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney on Saturday come to our FREE show! #prankqueans #StBrigid #Irishmusic #JamesJoycebirthday
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Today is the feast of St Brigid and for the first time Ireland is honouring their matron saint with a public holiday. The Prankqueans will be celebrating all things Celtic and female this Saturday with 'Brigid of the Waves'.
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Elizabeth was aged 5 in this photo, therefore taken in 1871, a year after the family migrated from Sydney to London. She would go on to write 21 books,many of them best-selling as well as critically acclaimed.She deserves a blue plaque!
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Elizabeth and the 'April, May and June babies'. "Luckily the stork didn't bring any more babies after the June one, or I don't know what would have happened. How could you call a baby February, for instance?" From 'The April Baby's Book of Tunes' (1900).
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In Poland, near Elizabeth's home in what was formerly Pomerania, there are two statues of the author. I would settle for one in Sydney, or even just a blue plaque!
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Noam Chomsky references the continuing relevance of my father's book 'Taking the Risk out of Democracy' in this interview. bostonreview.net/articles/the-p #DavidBarsamian @heckelfonic
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Perfect timing! My longed- for copy of Elizabeth's 'In the Mountains' (1920) turned up today! Thank you World of Rare Books.
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Elizabeth's novel,'The Enchanted April', about four women holidaying in Italy, was published #OTD 100 years ago, Oct 31st, 1922. 'She was permeated beyond altering by the atmosphere, .. If one may say so . . she had found her celestial legs.’
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'Loose talk about husbands had never in Mrs Fisher's circle been encouraged...husbands were taken seriously as the only real obstacles to sin.'
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A scene from the 1992 film adaptation of Elizabeth's 'The Enchanted April' (produced by Harvey Weinstein), a much truer-to-the text version than the 1935.
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#booktofilm #onlyhappinesshere
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Join us this Sunday night in #Sydney for a #Samhain #poetry #music #song #event at Level 1, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills to celebrate the #Irish #FestivalOfTheDead!
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Just as charming as the 1992 film, the 1935 black and white film adaptation of the The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim can be seen here: ok.ru/video/29505650
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View from Kirribilli, Sydney, where Elizabeth von Arnim was born and spent her first three years. "I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for if I had I would have missed a lot of lovely weather."
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The Prankqueans invite you to a free event tonight celebrating Samhain with music, song, poetry and storytelling. Dixon Room, State Library of NSW, 6.30pm. I will be giving a short talk about James Joyce's story 'Clay', set on All Hallows Eve.
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The protagonist in the 1941 film version,unlike the novel, is almost completely unlikeable. Hollywood misogony/dislike of strong female protagonists?
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Elizabeth's last novel, Mr Skeffington, published a year before she died, was produced as a film starring Bette Davis and is almost completely devoid of the novel's humour.
Mr. Skeffington Trailer 1944 youtu.be/ahvE9V7uzI8 via
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3/3 'Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.' #doglovers
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2/3 'In my day and turn having been each of the above-except that instead of husbands I was wives-I know what I am talking about, and am well aquainted with the ups and downs...the sometimes almost hourly ones...which inevitably accompany human loves.'
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1/3 When I discovered Elizabeth's non-fiction book,'All the Dogs of My Life'(1936) I wrongly assumed it was about her husbands."I would like, to begin with, to say that though parents,husbands children,lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs."
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In 1935 Elizabeth was way ahead of literary fashion when she published this story of a woman retreating to the south of France after discovering her daughter is having an adulterous affair with the family's trusted financial advisor. Much fun to be had.
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Another story of a woman escaping from a man, this time her father,and preferring to live on the poverty line rather than under patriarchal tyranny. How many women still stay in terrible relationships for financial reasons? Republished 2021 by
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The exquisite cover of 2019 edition of Elizabeth's novel about adultery 'Expiation'. "A satire of middle-class prudery.., what was ignored in the years after Expiation's first publication was how laugh-out-loud hilarious it is."
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While writing 'Love', Elizabeth claimed she tore up 6 pages for every 1. The novel details the heroine's attempts to maintain her fading beauty in the hope of keeping her younger lover, including disturbing scenes based on the author's own 1917 face lift.
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3/3 'Love' is 120,000 words. Of it Elizabeth said, "writing isn't an easy job, and the easier it looks when it is finished the more soul-sweat has gone into it. But I wouldn't be without it for anything – to be happy one must create." #OnlyHappinessHere
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2/3 Of 'Love' The Guardian commented that the author, as 'the most charming enfant terrible of modern fiction . . . has given away her whole sex and may have deterred countless readers from the dangers of marriage.'
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1/3 Elizabeth's novel 'Love' (1925), based on her affair with a man 30 years her junior, had a working title of 'I Never Should Have Done It'. #womenwithyoungerlovers #forgottenwomenwriters
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3/3 The Literary Review stated that "Only a woman, only a married woman.. could have written it. It is a work of highest art, and one instinctively recalls Jane Austen's masterly portraits." #novelsaboutdomesticviolence #domesticabuse #classics
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2/2 Elizabeth said that 'Vera' was her 'high watermark' and that she would 'never write anything as good again' but that she didn't wish to because the book 'was extracted from me by torment'. IMHO it is her masterpiece.
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1/3 If anyone doesn't understand coercive control all they need do is read 'Vera',Elizabeth's masterful portrait of domestic violence,based on her marriage to Francis Russell (brother of Bertrand). #coercivecontrol
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Elizabeth's cousin, Katherine Mansfield, concluded her review of 'Christopher and Columbus' thus: "She is, in the happiest way, conscious of her own particular vision and wants no other."
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Take note all aspiring creative writers of the first sentence of Elizabeth's novel 'Christopher and Columbus'. Over my 25 years of teaching I met few students who could write a grammatical sentence of more than 15 words. Elizabeth's is 216.
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4/3 A reviewer from Punch magazine concluded that Miss Cholmondeley "was herself in Germany during the summer of 1914, and has chosen this way of telling us what she saw and heard."
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3/3 The letters, written in the voice of the teenage daughter just prior to the outbreak of WWII, were so convincing that the TLS concluded, as did other reviewers, that the book must have been written by an eye witness.
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2/3 Elizabeth's daughter, Felicitas, died alone at 16 in Germany, where she had been sent to boarding school. 'Christine' is an epistolary novel based on letters between a mother, in England, and a daughter in Germany.
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1/3 Elizabeth's 10th book 'Christine' (1917) was written under the name of Alice Cholmondeley. Elizabeth denied she was the author, even to close friends, possibly because it revealed much about her relationship with her ill-fated daughter.
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3/3 According to one commentator, 'The Caravaners' was so popular that caravanning suddenly became the rage and 'landowners had to cope with a small army of literary females haranguing the locals about women's right to vote.'
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