Elizabeth Hawksley

@Hawksley_E

I love history and the arts generally; I read it, I write it and I blog about it.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2017.

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  1. 'It is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life, comedy and tragedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen that make one laugh in spite of oneself.' GH

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  2. 4. velj

    Georgette Heyer on her writing, 'It's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.' And so say all of us.

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    'The Quiet Gentleman'. I've been wondering what the Dowager Countess's reaction will be to Gervase and Drusilla getting engaged. Will she move to the Dower House quietly?

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  4. 2. velj

    Thank you, Sarah. And it's a great way for me to start the day, too, to find so many lovely people who share my admiration for GH.

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  5. 2. velj

    Reading Georgette Heyer is one of life's great pleasures.- I love her wit, style and irony. This week I'm looking at 'The Quiet Gentleman', one of my favourites.

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  6. 1. velj

    So glad you enjoyed it, Lynda. It opened a lot of windows for me - new ways of looking at women and society.

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    Edith Durham's practical and financial support of the Albanian mountain tribes led to her being called 'Queen of the Highlanders'. She wrote: 'It is an awful responsibility - to be fallen in love with by a whole nation.'

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  8. 28. sij

    'Had I the Heavens embroidered cloths' (Yeats) 2 Temple Place's new exhibition has a wonderful selection of 'embroidered cloths' and much more, collected by 7 interesting women in the early 20th century.

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  9. 27. sij

    Intrepid early 20th century traveller Edith Durham visited the mountain tribes in Albania, notorious for their blood feuds - and collected the beautifully designed textiles of the womenfolk, which are now on display here at

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  10. 24. sij

    'My heart leaps up when I behold / a rainbow in the sky./ So was it when my life began; /So is it now I am a man.' 1807. It's true! Seeing a rainbow is always very cheering.

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  11. 23. sij

    I've come across just the right Wordsworth quote for those of us who tend to draft and re-draft: 'All things have second birth, /The earthquake is not satisfied at once.'

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  12. 22. sij

    A thought to ponder on. Wordsworth wrote: 'Every great and original writer must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.' So, take heart, fellow writers; only you can write like you.

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  13. 21. sij

    Wordsworth reminisces on what he has learnt from life: 'that best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts,/ Of kindness and of love.'

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  14. 20. sij

    'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.' William Wordsworth. Writers take note.

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  15. 17. sij

    Ruskin was a firm believer in the innate purity of young girls. He wrote: 'Each book that a young girl touches should be bound in white vellum.' All I can say to that is, 'Yuk!'

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  16. 14. sij

    Byron's 'Don Juan' dismisses women. He says: 'In her first passion woman loves her lover, / In all the others, all she loves is love.' But without a decent education, girls have less chance of intellectual and emotional development.

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  17. 13. sij

    In 'Don Juan', Byron wrote, 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis women's whole existence.' The young lady who once owned my Victorian screen would probably have agreed with him. But is it true today?

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  18. 12. sij

    W. M Thackeray (1811-1863) wrote: 'This is the way that boys begin, All your wish is woman to win.' .

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  19. 7. sij

    'The Voortrekkers shot quaggas to provide meat for their servants and also for their skins, which made excellent home-made shoes. The skin was also used for making large bags or sacks for dried fruits and biltong.' 1920.

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  20. 6. sij

    It's poignant to realize that some of the quaggas I mention in my blog must surely have been given individual names - like the quaggas who pulled Mr Parkins' phaeton, or the one in the Paris zoo.

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