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Critical Sandwich
is 75% done
I just shudder thinking about how 18yo Elizabeth Inchbald ran away from home to London to become an ACTRESS in 1780, with no roles booked and no lodgings
just staying in cheap shady inns, attracting attention of bad men who notice that she's a girl alone
— 20 hours, 44 min ago
just staying in cheap shady inns, attracting attention of bad men who notice that she's a girl alone
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Critical Sandwich
is 50% done
I wish the author would go more into authors' life or into the plot of those novels and its similarity with Austen works.
I like the moralizing (female writers were dismissed and forgotten, and only Austen was allowed to survive) and the book-collector's bits (here's when the book stopped being published)
So just add 30 or so pages of comparisons?
— Sep 06, 2025 10:42AM
I like the moralizing (female writers were dismissed and forgotten, and only Austen was allowed to survive) and the book-collector's bits (here's when the book stopped being published)
So just add 30 or so pages of comparisons?
Critical Sandwich
is 20% done
At first I didn't connect with the "book collector's" part of the novel, but I realized that being a book collector, the author has more knowledge on printed editions and that can trace the rise and fall in popularity of these "forgotten" authors.
— Aug 12, 2025 01:18AM