An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: Never Forget! Maus; a Webinar

An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: Never Forget! Maus; a Webinar: You may register now for the Iowa Council for Holocaust Education's Webinar on the graphic novel, "Maus" Date...

Miss Charlotte Bronte meets Miss Barbara Pym: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Miss Charlotte Bronte meets Miss Barbara Pym: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I would just like to say Rest in Peace; I studied 100 Years of Solitude in Spanish, and was blown away. He was a master storyteller and an ...

Daphne Du Maurier

Review: Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster NY: Bantam/Doubleday, 1993. This is a very well researched and organized biography of the gifted woman who gave us "The Birds," "Rebecca," and "Jamaica Inn." There is a detaled, outlined table of contents as well as an extensive family tree and several pages of photos grouped according to chronology. The index is also comprehensive. Forster is also a novelist, and her style is easy to read but not condescending. DDM captures the imagaination of many of us who specialize in 19th and 20th c. British literature. "Rebecca" has always been one of my favorite books, first read when I was 13, and reread many times over. The film is also captivating, and I found the short story of "The Birds" far creepier and more frightening than any film. Recommended for fans of DDM, biography, The Brontes, the gothic novel, literary bio, memoir, 19th/20th c lit and women's studies

A Step Into the Bata Shoe Museum: The Beauty of Beads

A Step Into the Bata Shoe Museum: The Beauty of Beads: By Elizabeth Semmelhack, Senior Curator   Small, luminous and colourful, beads have been used to decorate footwear around the world...

Doll Museum: Bru, Jumeau, and more

Doll Museum: Bru, Jumeau, and more: The 19th century web museum exhibt will soon continue our chronology. Thanks for being patient for our digressions and for my bad typing. ...