Books in the Scullery
Jem BloomfieldBooks in the Scullery is a substack about books, their intricacies, and the connections between them. From Agatha Christie to medieval mystery plays, via Renaissance poetry, Jane Austen, Narnia and more.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone using the phrase “it is a truth universally acknowledged” is invoking the spirit of Jane Austen. Or at least, some vague sense of history and romance with a distinct flavour of Austen. I wa...
Shakespeare and the Bible: Quotation and Conspiracy
I’m always interested in how books connect to each other, via allusion and echo, by sharing a genre or reworking the same motif. It’s no coincidence that I’m fascinated by the appearance of Shakespeare and the Bible in literature. For some...
Is Lizzy Bennet A Great Reader?
Another week, another moment in Pride and Prejudice which I had misunderstood. Another point when Austen had been perfectly clear what was going on, but I read it via a patina of assumptions formed by later romance writing. I joked in a pre...
Dian de Momerie, Folk-Horror Heroine
Dorothy L. Sayers doesn’t write folk-horror. That might seem too obvious to state, since she’s famous for the genres she did produce: detective fiction, drama, apologetics, translation. I mention it because there is a decided strain of folk...
The Immodest Proposal of Fitzwilliam Darcy
Pride and Prejudice persists in being a novel by Jane Austen, and not a BBC TV show from the 1990s. Because of this inconvenient fact, whenever I reread Pride and Prejudice, I stumble across bits which I’ve either misremembered, or which I’...
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