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Next Stop Procrastination #13: The Archive Edition

A photo of the side of Hinton Ampner house with the sunken pond in front of it

I’m not reading from other sources as much as I used to but, particularly with the demise of Twitter, there’s no really easy way to share other people’s written work at the moment. Threads and BlueSky aren’t really there (yet?), and I do like the idea that these posts are here to look back on rather than links shared one by one and gone in a matter of minutes on social media.

The list below is one I compiled over the course of months during that time I was blogging intermittently. Timely news has been edited out, evergreen content remains.

Author/Literary Figure Specific

How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life
Helpful Men: Defending Philip Roth, Dismissing Virginia Woolf
40 Years Ago, Poet Lucille Clifton Lost Her House. This Year, Her Children Bought It Back
On the Friendship and Rivalry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
‘I learned about storytelling from Final Fantasy’: novelist Raven Leilani on Luster and video games
Makeshift Refuges: Edith Wharton’s Home-Building
Virginia Woolf on Why We Read and What Great Works of Art Have in Common
The Fashion of Jane Austen’s Novels
Is Jane Austen the Antidote to Social Media Overload?
“Only Lovers Live in the Present”: On the Notebooks of Patricia Highsmith
By the time L Frank Baum introduced the world to Dorothy and the gang, he’d already made his name as a shop window dresser par excellence
Emily Brontë’s Lost Second Novel

Book Specific

Was This Book The Original Eat, Pray, Love? (Mary Wollstonecraft)
The Mary Bennet Makeover: Postfeminist Media Culture and the Rewriting of Jane Austen’s Neglected Female Character
How the Women Became Little

About Writing

You Must Change Your Writing Style: Ward Farnsworth’s Guidebooks to English Virtuosity and Ancient Philosophy
On Setting YA Aside to Write a Novel for Adults (Nina LaCour on “Growing Up” Through Fiction

Libraries & Bookstores

Why a Bookstore’s Most Quiet Moments Are (Sometimes) Its Most Important
The Norwegian library with unreadable books

Misc. Literature

Better Than Nothing? Exploring the Limitations of AI-Narrated Audiobooks from a Disabled Person’s Perspective
Rachel Hore on Olga Gray, the historical figure behind her book, A Beautiful Spy
‘Alice door’ – inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell
How a Team of Calligraphers Brought Jane Austen’s Fictional Letters to Life
Lydia Conklin on Writing Residencies and the Invaluable Gift of Permission
What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Other Links

The Devonshire Manuscript, a sixteenth-century handwritten collection of poetry and commentary, offers a glimpse of intellectual life at the court of King Henry VIII

 
 

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