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Pride, Prejudice, and 'Passing'
From Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
The story so far…
A chance encounter brings protagonist Irene Redfield face-to-face with her childhood friend Clare Kendry. Clare tells Irene of how she lives ‘passing’ as a white woman, married to...
Odysseus and his mother
from Homer, The Odyssey, Book XI
The Story so Far…
As Odysseus recounts his troubled journey home from Troy, he describes entering the Underworld. There, he sacrifices animals so the dead can drink their blood and speak. Among the spir...
'O frabjous day!' Our book is coming out
The book is being published on 9 August by Bodleian Publishing and is available to pre-order from the Bodleian Library Shop (online and in store) as well as other sites and bookshops. See links below:
Ten-Minute Book Club: Deep Dives into...
Weirdness in the American West
From Mary Austin, Earth Horizon: An Autobiography
The Story So Far…
Mary Austin, one of the first major women writers of the West, recounts her life in California and the experiences—like a trip by stagecoach—that inspired her writ...
One of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's last poems
"A Musical Instrument” (1862)
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What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river!
Spreading ruin, and scatteri...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford
Oxford lecturer in medieval literature, interested in pasts and futures of reading, and stories of animal encounter.
Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; core member and curator of LitHits
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