#jane williams hogg

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Part 3 of PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ROMANTICS, A TUMBLR HISTORY EXHIBIT: photos i've collected of people related to the english writers of the romantic period and/or who were part of the byron-shelley circle.

Edward John Trelawny (above: a photo of him as an elder compared to a portrait of him as a young man). A key member of the circle, celebrity/adventurer/writer, friend and biographer of Byron and Shelley. Outlived everyone. Proposed to both Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont and remained in touch with them their whole lives. Really interesting person but also a chronic liar, making it difficult to tell which parts of his life stories are fact or fiction. He is buried next to Shelley (who is buried next to Keats); Trelawny bought the cemetery plot when Shelley died decades prior and later offered it to Mary Shelley who declined it. The last two portraits below were done by Joseph Severn, the artist who was friends with Keats, did most of his portraits, & took care of him as he was dying in Rome. I don't think Trelawny ever met Keats.

Jane Williams Hogg (née Cleveland). She was married to an abusive man named John Edward Johnson who she left for Edward Ellecker Williams, who was the father of her first two children and a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley's cousin Thomas Medwin. The family then lived in the same household with the Shelley family (Mary, Percy, and their children) in Italy. Percy dedicated some of his last poems to Jane. After Percy and Edward died together in a boating accident she lived with Mary before partnering with Shelley's best friend from college Thomas Jefferson Hogg who she had two children with.

I think the similarity between her younger portrait (1822, age 24) & her photograph (date unknown, but she died in 1884 & seems like she could be in her 80s in the photo) are very striking; you can clearly see the nose, eyes, hair, and mouth are exactly the same, only older.

She also knew George Eliot and William Michael Rossetti; I mentioned the Rossettis in my last post. I wonder if she ever discussed Shelley's connection to John Polidori with them; I don't believe she ever met John Polidori, but maybe the Shelleys would have mentioned him to her.

Thomas Medwin, another key player of the Shelley-Byron circle in Italy. Cousin of Percy Bysshe Shelley and friend/biographer of Shelley and Byron.

Wilhelm Charles Gaulis Clairmont, the nephew of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont aka Claire Clairmont. Wilhelm was the son of her half-brother Charles Gaulis Clairmont.

[czolgosz]

I dont think youve shown all of your old (as in vintage) books before? can we see them?

sure👍 i'm counting everything pre-1960 as vintage (i looked it up and apparently 20+ years old = vintage...) (& btw this was originally going to be pre-1970 but then i ran out of images that i'm allowed to use in a single post), i'll give specific dates of when they were printed. i'll show pictures of both the front cover and the spine, you'll have to open the image to see the spine though. many of the covers are not very interesting btw.. also this may be leaving out some vintage books that just don't look old and i therefore did not check

vivian grey - benjamin disraeli - 1881.

william harvey - d'arcy power - 1897.

the lightning conductor - charles norris williamson & alice muriel williamson - 1905.

the adventures of tom sawyer - mark twain - 1931.

rebecca - daphne du maurier - 1938.

cross creek - marjorie kinnan rawlings - 1942.

jane eyre - charlotte brontë - 1943.

the miracle of the bells - russell janney - 1946.

the chequer board - nevil shute - 1947.

the private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner - james hogg - 1947.

the big change - frederick lewis allen - 1952.

the american west: the pictorial epic of a continent - lucius beebe & chatles clegg - 1955.

the mouse that roared - leonard wibberley - 1955.

the complete short stories of mark twain - 1957.

[flowers-ferns-and-feathers]

hello! my name is camellia and i'm a disabled university student. i'm an english major in my third year of university, and i'm here to chronicle my experiences and talk about managing study and my health. i study part time, to rest and recover.

this semester i am taking two papers; the gothic, and english literature recontextualised.

course reading lists:

Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764). (complete)

Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796).

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817). (50%)

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). (50%)

Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (1872). -- (reread) (complete)

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). -- (reread) (complete)

Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897). -- (reread) (complete)

J.K. Hale. Sonnets of Four Centuries (1992)

Kazuo Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go (2005).

William Shakespeare. Hamlet. -- (reread) (complete)

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813). -- (reread) (complete)

Asta Nielsen's Hamlet (1921) dir. Svend Gade and Heinz Schall.

Bride and Prejudice (2004) dir. Gurinder Chadha.

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reading list - gothic

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☐  ALDERMAN, Naomi – The Lessons ☐  ATWOOD, Margaret – Lady Oracle ☐  AUSTEN, Jane – Northanger Abbey ☐  AZEVEDO, Álvares de – Noite na Taverna ☐  BECKFORD, William Thomas – Vathek ☐  BIERCE, Ambrose – The Death of Halpin Frayser ☐  BIERCE, Ambrose – The Spook House ☐  BLACKWELL, Anastasia – The House on Black Lake ☐  BLACKWOOD, Algernon – The Listener and Other Stories ☐  BRONTË, Charlotte – Jane Eyre ☐  BRONTË, Charlotte – Villette ☐  BRONTË, Emily – Wuthering Heights ☐  BROWN, Charles Brockden – Wieland ☐  BROWN, Charles Brockden – Ormond ☐  CAPOTE, Truman – Other Voices, Other Rooms ☐  CARTER, Angela – The Bloody Chamber ☐  CATHER, Willa – My Ántonia ☐  CAZOTTE, Jacques – Le Diable amoureux ☐  CHAMBERS, Robert W. – The King in Yellow ☐  DANFORTH, Emily M. – Plain Bad Heroines ☐  DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z. – House of Leaves ☐  DICKENS, Charles – Oliver Twist ☐  DICKENS, Charles – Bleak House ☐  DICKENS, Charles – Great Expectations ☐  DICKENS, Charles – The Mystery of Edwin Drood ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – The Double ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – The Landlady ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – Bobok ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – The Brothers Karamazov ☐  DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan – Lot No. 249 ☐  du MAURIER, Daphne – Jamaica Inn ☐  du MAURIER, Daphne – Rebecca ☐  du MAURIER, Daphne – My Cousin Rachel ☐  du MAURIER, George – Trilby ☐  FARING, Sara – The Tenth Girl ☐  FARRELL, Henry – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ☐  FAULKNER, William – The Sound and the Fury ☐  FAULKNER, William – As I Lay Dying ☐  FAULKNER, William – Light in August ☐  FAULKNER, William – Absalom, Absalom! ☐  FLAMMENBERG, Ludwig – The Necromancer ☐  GARSHIN, Vsevolod Mikhailovich – The Red Flower ☐  GAUTIER, Theophile – The Mummy's Foot ☐  GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins – The Yellow Wallpaper ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – Mirgorod ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – Arabesques ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – The Nose ☐  GRACQ, Julien – Au château d'Argol ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – Young Goodman Brown ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – The Minister's Black Veil ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – Edward Randolph's Portrait ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – The House of the Seven Gables ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – Rappacini's Daughter ☐  HILL, Susan – The Woman in Black ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – The Devil's Exilir ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – The Entail ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – Gambler's Luck ☐  HOGG, James – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ☐  HOLT, Victoria – Mistress of Mellyn ☐  HOLT, Victoria – Kirkland Revels ☐  HUGO, Victor – Notre-Dame de Paris ☐  HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl – Là-bas ☐  INGOLDSBY, Thomas – The Ingoldsby Legends ☐  IRVING, Washington – The Adventure of the German Student ☐  IRVING, Washington – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – The Lottery ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – A Visit ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – We Have Always Lived in the Castle ☐  JACOBS, W. W. – The Monkey's Paw ☐  JAMES, Henry – The Turn of the Screw ☐  JELINEK, Elfriede – Die Kinder der Toten ☐  LATHOM, Francis – The Midnight Bell ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – Uncle Silas ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – In a Glass Darkly ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – Carmilla ☐  LEE, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird ☐  LEIGH, Julia – The Hunger ☐  LEROUX, Gaston – Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ☐  LEVIN, Ira – The Stepford Wives ☐  LEWIS, Matthew Gregory – The Monk ☐  LEWIS, Matthew Gregory – The Castle Spectre ☐  MACHEN, Arthur – The Great God Pan ☐  MARRYAT, Florence – The Blood of the Vampire ☐  MARRYAT, Florence – The Phantom Ship ☐  MATURIN, Charles – Melmoth the Wanderer ☐  MEANEY, John – Bone Song ☐  MÉRIMÉE, PROSPER – La Vénus d'Ille ☐  MOORE, John – Zeluco ☐  MORRISON, Toni – Beloved ☐  NERVAL, Gérard de – Les Filles du feu ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Bellefleur ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Night-Side ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – A Bloodsmoor Romance ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Mysteries of Winterthum ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – My Heart Laid Bare ☐  O'CONNER, Flannery – Wise Blood ☐  ODOEVSKY, Vladimir – Russian Nights ☐  PARKER, Gilbert – The Lane that Had No Turning, and Other Tales ☐  PARSONS, Eliza – The Castle of Wolfenbach ☐  PARSONS, Eliza – The Mysterious Warning ☐  PEACOCK, Thomas Love – Nightmare Abbey ☐  PEAKE, Mervyn – Gormenghast ☐  PHILLIPS, Arthur – Angelica ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "Berenice" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "Ligeia" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Fall of the House of Usher" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Masque of the Read Death" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Oval Portrait" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Pit and the Pendulum" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Black Cat" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Tell-Tale Heart" ☐  POTOCKI, Jan – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Bridegroom ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Undertaker ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Queen of Spades ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – A Sicilian Romance ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Romance of the Forest ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Mysteries of Udolpho ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Italian ☐  RAY, Jean – Malpertuis ☐  ROCHE, Regina Maria – Clermont ☐  ROCHE, Regina Maria – The Children of the Abbey ☐  ROSTOPCHINA, Yevdokia Petrovna – Poedinok ☐  SETTERFIELD, Diane – The Thirteenth Tale ☐  SHELLEY, Mary – Frankenstein ☐  SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe – Zastrozzi ☐  SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe – St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian ☐  SLEATH, Eleanor – The Orphan of the Rhine ☐  STEVENSON, Robert Louis – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ☐  STEWART, Mary – Nine Coaches Waiting ☐  STOKER, Bram – Dracula ☐  STOKER, Bram – The Lair of the White Worm ☐  STORM, Theodor – Der Schimmelreiter ☐  TARTT, Donna – The Secret History ☐  TARTT, Donna – The Little Friend ☐  THOMAS, Elisabeth – Catherine House ☐  URBAN, Miloš – Sedmikostelí ☐  WALPOLE, Horace – The Castle of Otranto ☐  WILDE, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray ☐  ZAFÓN, Carlos Ruiz – La sombra del viento

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[CANNES 2021] Le Festival de Cannes est désormais terminé. On a vu pas moins de 105 films (dont les 24 de la Compétition), toutes catégories confondues ! Voici le classement de nos films préférés parmi ceux-ci, avec les dates annoncées de sortie en salles. 1. ‘Drive My Car’ de Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (SOC, 18/08) 2. ‘Great Freedom’ de Sebastian Meise (UCR, 09/02/22) 3. ‘Memoria’ d’Apichatpong Weerasethakul (SOC, 17/11) 4. ‘Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle’ d’Arthur Harari (UCR, 21/07) 5. ‘Ripples of Life’ de Shujun Wei (QR) 6. ‘The Souvenir Part II’ de Joanna Hogg (QR, 02/02/22) 7. ‘Le Genou d’Ahed’ de Nadav Lapid (SOC, 15/09) 8. ‘Bergman Island’ de Mia Hansen-Løve (SOC, en salles) 9. ‘Julie (en 12 chapitres)’ de Joachim Trier (SOC, 13/10) 10. ‘Annette’ de Leos Carax (SOC, en salles) 11. ‘Compartiment n°6’ de Juho Kuosmanen (SOC, 03/11) 12. ‘Un Héros’ d’Asghar Farhadi (SOC, 15/12) 13. ‘La Fièvre de Petrov’ de Kirill Serebrennikov (SOC, 01/12) 14. ‘Les Poings desserrés’ de Kira Kovalenko (UCR, 23/02/22) 15. ‘Piccolo Corpo’ de Laura Samani (SC, 16/02/22) 16. ‘The Innocents’ d’Eskil Vogt (UCR, 09/02/22) 17. ‘Red Rocket’ de Sean Baker (SOC, 02/02/22) 18. ‘Vortex’ de Gaspar Noé (CPR, 13/04/22) 19. ‘The French Dispatch’ de Wes Anderson (SOC, 27/10) 20. ‘The Velvet Underground’ de Todd Haynes (HC, 15/10) 21. ‘Un Monde’ de Laura Wandel (UCR, 26/01/22) 22. ‘Juste sous vos yeux’ de Hong Sang-soo (CPR, 21/09/22) 23. ‘Medusa’ d’Anita Rocha da Silveira (Q, 16/03/22) 24. ‘Mon Légionnaire’ de Rachel Lang (QR, 06/10) 25. ‘Lamb’ de Valdimar Jóhannsson (UCR, 29/12) 26. ‘Titane’ de Julia Ducournau (SOC, en salles) 27. ‘Retour à Reims (Fragments)’ de Jean-Gabriel Périot (QR, 30/03/22) 28. ‘Rien à foutre’ de Julie Lecoustre et Emmanuel Marre (SC, 02/03/22) 29. ‘Cahiers noirs I - Viviane’ et ‘Cahiers noirs II - Ronit’ de Shlomi Elkabetz (SS, 29/06/22) 30. ‘Moneyboys’ de C. B. Yi (UCR, 16/03/22) 31. ‘Une histoire d’amour et de désir’ de Leyla Bouzid (SC, 01/09) 32. ‘Plumes’ d’Omar El Zohairy (SC, 23/03/22) 33. ‘Journal de Tûoa’ de Maureen Fazendeiro et Miguel Gomes (QR, en salles) 34. ‘Hit the Road’ de Panah Pahani (Q, 27/04/22) 35. ‘Les Olympiades’ de Jacques Audiard (SOC, 03/11) 36. ‘Et il y eut un matin’ d’Eran Kolirin (UCR, 13/04/22) 37. ‘L’Histoire de ma femme’ d’Ildiko Enyedi (SOC, 16/03/22) 38. ‘Face à la mer’ d’Ely Dagher (QR, 13/04/22) 39. ‘Olga’ d’Elie Grappe (SC, 17/11) 40. ‘Une jeune fille qui va bien’ de Sandrine Kiberlain 41. ‘Toute une nuit sans savoir’ de Payal Kapadia (QR, 13/04/22) 42. ‘Petite nature’ de Samuel Theis (SC, 09/03/22) 43. ‘La Civil’ de Teodora Ana Mihai (UCR) 44. ‘Les Promesses d’Hasan’ de Semih Kaplanoğlu (UCR, 03/08/22) 45. ‘Libertad’ de Clara Roquet (SC, 06/04/22) 46. ‘Clara Sola’ de Nathalie Álvarez Mesen (QR, 01/06/22) 47. ‘Jane par Charlotte’ de Charlotte Gainsbourg (CPR, 12/01/22) 48. ‘Serre-moi fort’ de Mathieu Amalric (CPR, 08/09) 49. ‘Cette musique ne joue pour personne’ de Samuel Benchetrit (CPR, 29/09) 50. ‘Amparo’ de Simón Mesa Soto (SC) 51. ‘JFK : L’Enquête’ d’Oliver Stone (CPR, 12/12) 52. ‘Futura’ de Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher et Francesco Munzi (QR) 53. ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ de T. Huezo (UCR, 29/04/22)  54. ‘Nitram’ de Justin Kurzel (SOC, 11/05/22) 55. ‘Défense d’atterrir’ de Jae-rim Han (HC, 30/11/22 en VOD/DVD/BR) 56. ‘La Femme du Fossoyeur’ de Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (SC, 27/04/22) 57. ‘Europa’ de Haider Rashid (Q) 58. ‘Val’ de Ting Poo et Leo Scott (CPR, 20/01/22) 59. ‘Tromperie’ d’Arnaud Desplechin (CPR, 29/12) 60. ‘Oranges sanguines’ de Jean-Christophe Meurisse (SM, 17/11) 61. ‘Marin des montagnes’ de Karim Aïnouz (SS, 07/03/22) 62. ‘Tout s’est bien passé’ de François Ozon (SOC, 22/09) 63. ‘Freda’ de Gessica Geneus (UCR, 13/10) 64. ‘Tralala’ d’Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu (SM, 06/10) 65. ‘France’ de Bruno Dumont (SOC, 25/08) 66. ‘Lingui, les liens sacrés’ de Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (SOC, 08/12) 67. ‘Neptune Frost’ de Saul Williams et Anisia Uzeyman (QR, 22/03/23) 68. ‘Employé / Patron’ de Manuel Nieto (QR, 06/04/22) 69. ‘Les Magnétiques’ de Vincent Maël Cardona (QR, 17/11) 70. ‘A résidence’ d’Alexey German Jr. (UCR) 71. ‘Où est Anne Frank !’ d’Ari Folman (HC, 08/12) 72. ‘Suprêmes’ d’Audrey Estrougo (SM, 24/11) 73. ‘De bas étage’ de Yassine Qnia (QR, 04/08) 74. ‘Benedetta’ de Paul Verhoeven (SOC, en salles) 75. ‘Belle’ de Mamoru Hosoda (CPR, 29/12) 76. ‘Bonne mère’ de Hafsia Herzi (UCR, 21/07) 77. ‘Ouistreham’ d’Emmanuel Carrère (QR, 12/01/22) 78. ‘Mes frères et moi’ de Yohan Manca (UCR, 05/01/22) 79. ‘Entre les vagues’ d’Anaïs Volpé (QR, 16/03/22) 80. ‘Cow’ d’Andrea Arnold (CPR, 30/11/22) 81. ‘Entre les lignes’ d’Eva Husson (CPR, 27/09/23) 82. ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ de Shipei Wen (SS) 83. ‘Les Héroïques’ de Maxime Roy (SS, 20/10) 84. ‘La Fracture’ de Catherine Corsini (SOC, 27/10) 85. ‘Evolution’ de Kornél Mundruczo (CPR, 18/05/22) 86. ‘Les Intranquilles’ de Joaquim Lafosse (SOC, 29/09) 87. ‘Blue Bayou’ de Justin Chon (UCR, 15/09) 88. ‘Mi iubita, mon amour’ de Noémie Merlant (SS, 27/07/22) 89. ‘Haut et fort’ de Nabil Ayouch (SOC, 17/11) 90. ‘Les Amours d’Anaïs’ de Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (SC, 15/09) 91. ‘Murina’ d’Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic (QR, 20/04/22) 92. ‘Ali & Ava’ de Clio Barnard (QR, 02/03/22) 93. ‘Tre Piani’ de Nanni Moretti (SOC, 10/11) 94. ‘After Yang’ de Kogonada (UCR, 06/07/22) 95. ‘A Chiara’ de Jonas Carpignano (QR, 13/04/22) 96. ‘Bruno Reidal’ de Vincent Le Port (SC, 23/03/22) 97. ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ d’Abdullah Mohammad Saad (UCR) 98. ‘La Légende du roi crabe’ d’Alessio Rigo de Righi et Matteo Zoppis (QR, 23/02/22) 99. ‘Aline’ de Valérie Lemercier (HC, 10/11) 100. ‘Flag Day’ de Sean Penn (SOC, 29/09) 101. ‘Întregalde’ de Radu Muntean (QR) 102. ‘Women Do Cry’ de Mina Mileva et Vesela Kazakova (UCR, 09/03/22) 103. ‘Robuste’ de Constance Meyer (SC, 02/03/22) 104. ‘La Croisade’ de Louis Garrel (SS, 22/12) 105. ‘La Colline où rugissent les lionnes’ de Luàna Bajrami (QR, 27/04/22) SOC : Sélection Officielle - Compétition UCR : Un Certain Regard CPR : Cannes Première HC : Hors Compétition QR : Quinzaine des Réalisateurs SC : Semaine de la Critique SM : Séances de Minuit SS : Séances Spéciales A&B

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WOMEN IN FILM

Agnieszka Holland - director, The Secret Garden (1993) Alice Waddington - director, Paradise Hills (2019) Amma Asante - director, Belle (2013), A United Kingdom (2016) Amy Heckerling - director, Look Who’s Talking (1989), Clueless (1995) Angela Workman - writer, The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017), Longbourn (?) Angelina Jolie - director, By the Sea (2015), First They Killed My Father (2017) Anna Boden - director, It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010), Captain Marvel (2019) Anna Kendrick - exec. producer, Dummy (?), Love Life (?) Anne Fletcher - director, The Proposal (2009), Dumplin’ (2018) Ava DuVernay - director, Selma (2014), A Wrinkle in Time (2018) Barbara Streisand - director, Yentl (1983) Brenda Chapman - director, The Prince of Egypt (1998), Brave (2012) Brie Larson - director, Unicorn Store (2017) Bryce Dallas Howard - director, Dads (2019), The Mandalorian Ch. 4 (2019) Carey Mulligan - exec. producer, Promising Young Woman (2020) Cate Shortland - director, Lore (2012), Black Widow (2020) Cathy Yan - director, Birds of Prey (2020) Céline Sciamma - director, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Chanya Button - director, Vita & Virginia (2018) Charlize Theron - producer, Monster (2003), Atomic Blonde (2017), Bombshell (2019) Chloé Zhao - director, Eternals (2020) Claire McCarthy - director, Ophelia (2018), The Luminaries (?) Debbie Allen - director, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), The Twilight Zone (2003) Deborah Chow - director, The Mandalorian Ch. 3, Ch. 7 (2019), Obi-Wan Series (?) Debra Granik - director, Winter’s Bone (2010) Desiree Akhavan - director, Appropriate Behavior (2014) Diablo Cody - writer, Jennifer’s Body (2009), Young Adult (2011) Dorota Kobiela - director, Loving Vincent (2017) Drew Barrymore - director, Whip It (2009) Elizabeth Banks - director, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Charlie’s Angels (2019) Elizabeth Olsen - exec. producer, Sorry for Your Loss (2018–) Emma Stone - exec. producer, Maniac (2018) Emma Thompson - writer, Sense and Sensibility (1995), Last Christmas (2019) Gal Gadot - producer, Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Hedy Lamarr Mini-Series (2020–) Gillian Armstrong - director, Little Women (1994), Death Defying Acts (2007) Greta Gerwig - director, Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019), Barbie (?) Gurinder Chadha - director, Bride & Prejudice (2004), Blinded by the Light (2019) Jamie Babbit - director, Supergirl (2016), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018) Jane Goldman - writer, Stardust (2007), X-Men: First Class (2011), Rebecca (2020) Jennifer Lee - writer, Frozen (2013), Zootopia (2016), Frozen II (2019) Jerusha Hess - writer, Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Nacho Libre (2006), Austenland (2013) Jessica Chastain - producer, I Am Jane Doe (2017), 355 (2021) Joanna Hogg - director, Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010), The Souvenir (2019) Josie Rourke - director, Coriolanus (2014), Mary Queen of Scots (2018) Julia Ducournau - director, Raw (2016), Titane (2020) Julie Taymor - director, Frida (2002), Across the Universe (2007), The Glorias (2020) Karen Gillan - director, The Party’s Just Beginning (2018) Kari Skogland - director, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2020–) Karyn Kusama - director, Æon Flux (2005), Jennifer’s Body (2009), Destroyer (2018) Kate Mara - producer, My Days of Mercy (2017), A Teacher (2020–) Kathryn Bigelow - director, The Hurt Locker (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Katt Shea - director, Poison Ivy (1992), Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019) Kay Cannon - writer, New Girl (2012-2013), Girlboss (2017), Cinderella (2021) Kelly Fremon Craig - director, The Edge of Seventeen (2016)  Lana & Lilly Wachowski - directors, The Matrix (1999), Cloud Atlas (2012) Laura Lau - director, Silent House (2011) Leslye Headland - writer, Terriers (2010), Bachelorette (2012), Russian Doll (2019–) Lindsey Beer - writer, Chaos Walking (2020), The Kingkiller Chronicle (?), Silver Sable (?) Lois Weber - director, A Heroine of ‘76 (1911), The Angel of Broadway (1927) Lone Scherfig - director, An Education (2009), One Day (2011), Their Finest (2016) Lorene Scafaria - director, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), Hustlers (2019) Lucia Aniello - director, Rough Night (2017), Broad City (2014-2019) Lupita Nyong’o - producer, In My Genes (2009), Americanah (2020–) Lynne Ramsay - director, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Madonna - director, Filth and Wisdom (2008), W.E. (2011) Margot Robbie - exec. producer, Gotham City Sirens (?), Modern Shakespeare Project (?) 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In 1797 in Somers Town, London, the woman who invented Science Fiction was born. This woman was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and known as Mary Shelley. Her parents were William Godwin, the famous journalist and political philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist writer. Mary Wollstonecraft died a few days after her daughter was born, leaving Mary to be raised by her father. A few years later, William Godwin got remarried to a neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont. Mary had a very rocky relationship with her stepmother throughout her life, however, was close to her stepsister, Claire Clairmont.

In June of 1812, William Godwin sent Mary to stay with a family friend, William Baxter, in Scotland so Mary would be surrounded by great thinkers. Mary stayed here for a few months, returned to London, and then went back to Scotland again in 1813. It is believed that Mary met her future husband, Percy Shelley, for the first time during her stay in Scotland. Coincidently, Percy became sort of an understudy for William Godwin soon after Mary left Scotland. During this time William Godwin was struggling with money, and he took Percy under his wing because Percy promised him payment. However, since Percy had alienated his family due to his political beliefs, he had a hard time getting money and was unable to pay William Godwin. Because of this William became rather ill with Percy. Simultaneously, Mary and Percy would meet at Mary Wollstonecraft’s grave to hang out. On June 26, Percy and Mary announced that they were in love, even though Percy was married at the time to a woman named Harriet. Then, on June 27, Mary lost her virginity to Percy on the grave of her mother. After their announcement, William Godwin expressed his high disapproval for their relationship. On June 28, 1814, Mary and Percy secretly eloped then fled to France, taking Mary’s sister, Claire, with them.

After they fled to France the trio spent a lot of time journeying through Europe. Sometime during this journey, Mary became pregnant, however, she did not find out until they returned to London. In London, the couple found themselves penniless, and William Godwin wanted nothing to do with them since Mary had ‘tarnished’ her name and reputation. During the next two years, Percy and Mary faced constant debt and the death of their premature daughter. Also, during these years, Percy had many relations with Claire and his ex-wife, Harriet. This was a testimony to his belief in free love. He also encouraged Mary to have a relationship with his close friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg. However, Mary was loyal to Percy, even when Percy was not loyal to her.

In the summer of 1816 Mary, Percy, and Claire spent an extended amount of time in Geneva, Switzerland with the infamous Lord Byron, and his doctor, John Polidori. It was during this time that Mary started writing her famous piece, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.  Also, in late 1816, Percy and Mary got officially married after the suicide of Percy’s ex-wife. In 1818, the couple moved to Italy which is where their second and third children died. Later, Mary gave birth to their fourth child, the only Shelley child to survive. This child was named Percy William Shelley.

Tragically, in 1822, Percy Shelley drowned after his sailing ship sunk. His body was not found for ten days, and then it was immediately buried. After a month, his body was exhumed and burned by request of his family and friends. The only thing that made it through the fire was Percy Shelley’s heart which Mary kept in a jar and with her at all times until she died. In 1823, Mary returned to England and devoted herself to raising her child and writing. At the age of 53, in 1851, Mary died of a brain tumor.

While her life was full of tragedy, Mary’s work still lives on as one of the most iconic pieces of literature to date. She was a strong woman who faced many obstacles in life, and somehow overcame them all. She invented Science Fiction and created a legacy that has last longer than a lifetime.

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MARY SHELLEY & PERCY SHELLEY 

Years active: 1812--1822

                MARY...

     Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was the daughter of the radical philosopher William Godwin, who described her as ‘singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind’. Her mother, who died days after her birth, was the famous defender of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary grew up with five semi-related siblings in Godwin’s unconventional but intellectually electric household.

     Mary’s childhood had elements of Cinderella, complete with a malevolent stepmother. Her father got remarried after the untimely death of her mother, to Mary Jane Clairmont, a widow with two young children. The new Mrs. Godwin favored her children over Mary and was jealous of William’s attention to her. She made life difficult for Mary and promoted her children’s education at the expense of Mary’s. Despite Mrs. Godwin’s efforts, Mary received an excellent education. She had access to her father’s library, listened to his discussions with other leading intellectuals, and immersed herself in her late mother’s writings. Due to clashes with her stepmother, Mary was sent to live with the Baxter family in Scotland. Here she finally found a loving family, and began to focus on her writing.

               PERCY...

     Percy Shelley enjoyed a life of privilege, and was sent to Eton College when he was twelve. After six years at Eton, where he became known for his anti-authoritarian views and began writing poetry and prose, he entered Oxford University in 1810. At Oxford he and a friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, influenced each other’s growing rejection of societal rules. Their collaboration on a pamphlet titled The Necessity of Atheism resulted in their expulsion from Oxford. Percy’s father, angered by his expulsion and refusal to renounce the pamphlet’s atheist ideas, cut him off financially until he came of age two years later. While living in poverty, Percy eloped with sixteen-year-old Harriet Westbrook.

              LOVE NEVER DIES...

     On a visit home in 1812, fifteen-year-old Mary met Percy Shelley, an admirer of her father. Percy visited the Godwin home often, and became friendly with Mary, whom he recognized as an intellectual soulmate. Percy resented that his wife Harriet, preoccupied with one child and pregnant with another, no longer made him the center of attention.

     In 1814, Mary and Percy began meeting each other secretly, as William Godwin forbade the relationship [after Percy fell through in bailing him out of debt]. They had a series of rendezvous at Mary Wollstonecraft's grave in St Pancras Churchyard, and they fell in love—she was 17, he nearly 22. On 26 June, Shelley and Godwin declared their love for one another as Shelley announced he could not hide his "ardent passion", leading her in a "sublime and rapturous moment" to say she felt the same way. On either that day or the next, Mary lost her virginity to Percy, famously consummated near the grave of her mother.

     Soon after, the couple left for France with Mary’s stepsister, Claire Clairmont. The trio traveled throughout Europe reading the works of Mary’s mother, keeping a journal of their travels, and developing their own writing.

     By the fall of 1814, money had run out and they were forced to return home. To further complicate matters, Mary discovered that she was pregnant. Mary tried her best to maintain a normal lifestyle despite a sickly pregnancy but it is rumored that during this time Percy began an affair with Claire. Little evidence supports the claim, however; several sections of Mary’s journals are missing from the period, Claire’s journal has disappeared, and Thomas Hogg--Percy’s friend and biographer--does not include a history past 1815. In any case, Mary was frequently left alone while Shelley visited his wife or engaged in outings with Claire.

     February of 1815 proved devastating for Mary, as her daughter was born two months premature and died two weeks later. Percy’s apathy towards the loss of their child compelled Mary to search elsewhere for comfort and she turned to Thomas Hogg for companionship. It is often thought that Percy encouraged a relationship between Mary and Hogg, especially after his own alleged affair with Claire. Mary had no interest in a romantic relationship beyond Percy, however.

     In May 1816, Mary, Percy and their son William, born the same year, traveled to Geneva where they spent the infamous ‘summer without sun‘ in the company of Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont and John William Polidori, Byron’s physician. The tranquil, bleak and desolate atmosphere was inspiration for a group of young poets and writers. What started as a challenge to write a ghost story, turned into a hauntingly magnificent novel, Frankenstein. Mary was just nineteen years old when she wrote the novel, but in the companion of such geniuses as were Byron and Shelley, she had not dared to present them with a less haunting story. Published anonymously in 1818 with a preface by Percy, it became one of the most popular works of the Romantic period.

     Percy and Mary returned to England in 1816 to face back-to-back tragedies. Mary’s half-sister committed suicide and a few weeks later, Percy’s wife, Harriet, killed herself. Harriet’s death allowed Percy and Mary to wed. Percy’s efforts to gain custody of his two children with Harriet were blocked by her family’s claims that his poetry [especially free love and atheism promoted in the political epic Queen Mab] showed him to be an unfit parent. In March of 1818, the Shelleys settled in Italy, where Percy became part of an expatriate artistic community centered on Lord Byron. There, Percy wrote some of his best work: Prometheus Unbound, “Ode to the West Wind,” “The Cloud, “To a Skylark,” and “Ode to Liberty.” Sadly, their two children, William and Clara, died a year apart, in 1818 and 1819. Mary gave birth to a son, Percy Florence, in November 1819.

     By 1822, the Shelleys had settled on the Bay of San Terenzo in Italy. They were joined by Edward Williams and his wife, Jane. Mary, who had inherited her mother’s melancholic streak, became depressed and isolated after the loss of her children. Percy, disappointed in his marriage, began a flirtation with Jane and wrote several poems to her. Still, Shelley expressed Mary’s isolation from him:

“My dearest Mary, wherefore hast thou gone,

And left me in this dreary world alone? 

Thy form is here indeed--a lovely one

But thou art fled, gone down a dreary road

That leads to Sorrow’s most obscure abode.

For thine own sake I cannot follow thee

Do thou return for mine.”

    On 8 July, Percy and Edward Williams set out on a sailing trip with their eighteen-year-old boatboy, Charles Vivian. They never reached their destination. A letter arrived to Mary addressed for Percy, saying, "pray write to tell us how you got home, for they say you had bad weather after you sailed monday & we are anxious". Mary and Jane Williams rushed desperately to Pisa in the fading hope that their husbands were still alive. Ten days after the storm, three bodies washed up on the coast near Viareggio. Byron and friends cremated Percy Shelley’s corpse on the beach.

     Mary devoted herself to caring for Percy Florence, the only one of her five children to reach adulthood. She was also dedicated to maintaining her husband’s literary legacy. She collected and edited Percy’s poetry and wrote his biography. She continued to write the rest of her life, and was able to provide Percy Florence with an excellent education at Harrow and Cambridge University. Mary died of a brain tumor in February of 1851.

MARY SHELLEY is CLOSED. PERCY SHELLEY is OPEN !

[scifigeneration]

The film, Mary Shelley, shows Frankenstein is always a story for our times

by Deirdre Coleman

Elle Fanning as the author Mary Shelley. IMDB

The lives of young Romantic artists continue to fascinate filmmakers, from Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986) about Lord Byron, to Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009) about John Keats. With the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein upon us, a new film focuses on its author, Mary Shelley.

Frankenstein was conceived by the 18-year old Mary Shelley while she was with her stepsister Claire Clairmont, the poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Byron’s physician John Polidori. The setting was grey, wet Geneva, in the so-called “year without a summer”, 1816, when the volcanic ash of a huge volcanic eruption in Indonesia blotted out the sun, wreaking havoc across the globe’s climate system. Crops failed, livestock died, famine was widespread, and the apocalypse appeared nigh — a perfect setting for a ghost story competition.

Unable to go boating or walking, and cooped up inside Byron’s chalet by the lake, Polidori drafted The Vampyre. But Mary Shelley (played by Elle Fanning in the film) won the competition with Frankenstein, her “hideous progeny” as she called it — the moving tale of the mad scientist Frankenstein and his abandoned, unnamed creature. While the poetry of Shelley and Byron is not much read today, Frankenstein is one of the world’s most popular and admired books.

Mary Shelley is the latest release by director Haifaa al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker, best-known for her critically acclaimed Wadjda (2012). Al-Mansour directed Wadjda via walkie talkie from the back of a van in Riyadh because Saudi women are forbidden to mix publicly with men. Unsurprisingly, the film focuses on her country’s gender oppression: 10-year old Wadjda longs to own a bicycle so that she can race against her friend Abdullah but bikes are not for girls.

Mary Shelley transposes these themes of gender oppression to the business of writing and literary celebrity in the early-19th century. The film opens to the sounds of furious scribbling and incantatory snatches of lurid gothic prose, composed and jotted down by Mary, the 16-year old daughter of two revolutionaries, the political philosopher William Godwin and the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

With her mother dying soon after childbirth, the young Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is growing up in a straitened, loveless household run by a shrewish stepmother (Joanne Froggatt). An avid reader, especially of ghost stories, Mary longs to be a writer herself, the challenge being to find her own voice.

To assist her in this quest, the radical, young (but married) poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) arrives on the scene, drawn like a magnet to the child of two giants in his pantheon of free thinkers. After a brief courtship centred on Wollstonecraft’s grave and inspired by high-sounding poetry and the revolutionary ideals of sexual equality, free love and communal living, Mary elopes with Percy, taking Claire, her complicated and troublesome stepsister, along with her.

In its focus on abandonment and loneliness, and the ways in which free love and sexual liberation can go badly wrong for women, and even worse for their children, the film is fired by today’s #MeToo movement. Many of the painful, actual details of the writers’ lives are condensed, but the high cost of male libertinism is a message powerfully delivered by Al-Mansour. Percy’s abandoned first wife Harriet drowns herself, the narcissist Percy accuses Mary of hypocrisy when she refuses a sexual liaison with his friend Hogg, and Lord Byron (Tom Sturridge) monsters the pregnant Claire (Bel Powley) by describing their affair as a “lapse in judgement”.

Claire Clairmont (Bel Powley), Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth), and Lord Byron (Tom Sturridge) IMDB

Although there are some good scenes on the fashionable science of galvanism, the film’s interest in the novel Frankenstein is marginal. Nevertheless it does something quite clever. It reads the miserable women as incarnations of Frankenstein’s cruelly abandoned creature.

One of the film’s most original moves is to bring the controversial Claire Clairmont centrestage, where she always wanted to be. Bolder than her stepsister, Claire tired of having to share Percy with Mary so she targeted her own poet, one richer and more famous than her stepsister’s. Graphic evidence of Claire’s pursuit of Byron, the rock star of his generation, has survived in her extraordinary letters to him, the first of which warns him that “the Creator ought not to destroy his Creature” in refusing her proposed tryst. She got her way and while Byron later acknowledged Claire’s child as his own, he suspected the “brat” was Percy’s.

Entangled sexually, Elle Fanning captures Mary Shelley’s quietly fierce but loyal nature. Although her idea of Heaven was “a world without a Claire”, she is always protective and compassionate towards her rival, an historical detail well conveyed by the film. Later in life, long after Shelley and Byron were dead, the now childless and still grieving Claire bitterly denounced both poets for their “free love” philosophy, a creed which made them “monsters of lying, meanness, cruelty and treachery”.

Frankenstein is a book which lives in its present moment. In 1824, it was mobilised in the British Parliament to oppose the abolition of slavery. The fear was that the suddenly freed slave would resemble Frankenstein’s creature, a man in physical strength and sexual passion, but an infant intellectually.

In our own times sympathy for the creature as victim often jostles with fear. Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2017), a novel set amid the violence of contemporary Iraq, features “Whatshisname”, a grotesque figure assembled from the body parts of suicide bombers and their victims. At first he seeks revenge for the dead that he embodies but he then turns to killing the innocent.

Last year also saw the publication by MIT of an edition of Frankenstein for scientists, carrying extensive footnotes concerning the creator’s duty of care towards his creation, be that a robot or an atom bomb.

Unfortunately, despite its powerful and innovative focus on the two injured women at the heart of this story, the film ends with a disappointingly conventional message. While Mary has found her authorial voice, she trails off into sentimentality when she reassures Percy (with a kiss) that, despite all the suffering entailed by his romantic idealism, she regrets nothing.

Deirdre Colema os a, Robert Wallace Chair of English in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

[still-single]

NEW RADIO 03 JUNE 2018

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[burningvelvet]

on percy shelley & human connection & coping through art

to set the mood of this post i must say i'm writing it really quickly on my phone over a bowl of pasta with bread & broccoli & some orange flavored sparkling water & im still dressed in my outdoor wintery clothes (all black, knee boots, wool, silver chains & rings, although i mostly prefer gold jewelry).

so anyway today i've been kind of sad over ppl not replying to my texts & my usual reaction is to say "ok, guess i'll kms, wah wah, cry cry" but this sort of passively cynical joking schtick has gotten old & i would rather occupy myself some other way instead of moping about failed connections or the difficulty of initiating contact with anyone or the struggles of modern socialization as a whole.

instead, i will read the works of percy shelley tonight, and think about how he struggled with all of this over 200 yrs ago. of how hard he struggled to make leigh hunt and lord byron collaborate with him on their journal the liberal, and how he struggled all his life to build a positive community even in spite of years of bullying, ostracization, and family strife - he often felt like giving up, and like human connection was impossible, but he never gave in to apathy and instead he continuously curated his ideal life by seeking out other like-minded people, even when he occasionally embarrassed himself in public or when others were decidely averse to him or lukewarm in their reception. john keats didn't entirely take to him when they met and some of keats' friends straight-up disliked percy for being weird, but percy (though scarcely knowing him) loved keats as a brother-poet nonetheless, was generous to him, wrote one of his masterpieces in his favor, and died with a copy of his poems in his pocket.

percy always reached out to others and was a loyal friend even when others disrespected him or ignored him or just simply didnt love him as much as he did them. his letters to lord byron show how reverent he was to his friend, and how his affection was never returned in quite the same gusto, but, while still trying to keep his self-respect, percy quelled his frustrations and continued his correspondence with byron regardless. percy acted as the mediator between byron and claire even when his stress was so high it weighed heavily on his health. he actively tried to choose to be positive even when the people around him were negative or miserable. like most writers back then, he sent his writing to his idols, and sought mentorship from people he admired, like william godwin and leigh hunt, and he continued to respect them even when they took advantage of him financially (moreso in godwin's case).

anyway what i mean to say is that whenever im feeling lonely or rejected or alienated or socially stupid or am just second-guessing my role in society or whatever whatever whatever, i cling to creativity/art/literature/etc. even harder than i regularly do, because thats what it exists for.

i knew a therapist (not one i saw as a patient, but someone i knew through mutual interests in media/the arts) who said that a certain musical performance we both loved probably saved way more lives than any single therapist ever has. - the performance in question was david bowie's tokyo 1990 live recording of rock n roll suicide, an anti-suicide song (its available on youtube, go watch it lol, he performs it with so much conviction).

any way even though at the end of his life shelley sometimes felt like he was failing to achieve his dream of building a utopian art commune - he actually did succeed in introducing several people to each other in ways that changed peoples lives. his friends jane williams and thomas jefferson hogg got married only through his mutual friendship. whole literary societies have been started in his honor - to this day there are conferences & whatnot that meet annually - his life & writing continues to inspire people and bring them comfort - & he would be extremely proud of that - any artist would. the main goal of any famous dead writer is basically to become the imaginary friend of their future readers & he accomplished that - even though all the time he was wracked with doubt/depression/suicidality/illness/chronic pain, etc. - as a political/philosophical radical, he realized that having hope is one of the most influential & radical things one can do - & i'm glad that, even though this is a person who died over 200 yrs ago, there is at least one person who really resonates with me - even though we're from different centuries, different continents, different sexes, etc. - it's helpful to have positive influences to look up to, especially when they've also struggled in similar ways as you. and although shelley was pretty privileged (rich englishman) he really did struggle a lot mentally & physically - his life was a chaotic mess - and he wasn't perfect at all - but i think he's still inspirational for my previously mentioned reasons - his ceaseless hope. the last poem he was working on was titled the triumph of life, even though he wrote it during a deep depression. the last poem he published in his lifetime was hellas, which he hoped would raise money for the cause of greek war of independence. from the poem:

"Life may change, but it may fly not;

Hope may vanish, but can die not;

Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;

Love repulsed, — but it returneth!"

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13 years - 305 books

I am an avid reader and friends frequently ask me what I am reading. Here I will try and post a brief review of each book I read. To begin with here is a list of books I have read over the last 13 years. Feel free to ask me any questions.

2017: (22)

-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

-Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

-Corporate Communication, Theory & Practice by Joep Cornelissen

-Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen

-Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

-A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

-Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

-Theorizing Crisis Communication by Timothy Sallow and Matthew Seeger

-Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns

-The Global Public Relations Handbook by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh and Dejan Vercic

-The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

-When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

-The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

- Introducing Communication Research by Donald Treadwell

- We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby

- Ethics in Public Relations by Kathy Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Bronstein

- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

- Origin by Dan Brown

- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

- Social Media Communication by Jeremy Harris Lipshultz

- A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

2016: (20)

-A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell

-Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

-The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale

-Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

-The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

-The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

-The Speechwriter by Barton Swaim

- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

-The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

-The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

-But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman

-Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

-Brewster by Mark Slouka

-Rosemary The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

-The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

-The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

-Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

-The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

-A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman 

2015: (29)

-All The Truth Is Out by Matt Bai

-Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

-The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

-Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

-Yes Please by Amy Poehler

-A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

-All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

-The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

-To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

-In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

-A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka

-The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

-Persuading Scientists by Hamid Ghanadan

-The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey

-Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

-A Heartbreaking Word of Staggering Genius by David Eggers

-Polio, An American Story by David Oshinsky 

-The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

-Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

-One Summer America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

-Brain on Fire by Susannah Catalan

-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

-The Making of Modern Medicine by Michael Bliss

-People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann

-Internal Medicine by Terrence Holt

-The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

-The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

2014: (10)

-David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

-Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants by The Oatmeal

-Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

-Wild by Sheryl Strayed

-Stiff by Mary Roach

-An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

-Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

-Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

-Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder

-Columbine by Dave Cullen

2013: (13)

-The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner

-The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough

-Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

-I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman

-Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

-A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers

-Inferno by Dan Brown

-The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

-Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

-Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith

-The Brief Wondrous Live of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

-Truth in Advertising by John Kenny

-The Cell Game by Alex Prud'Homme

2012: (16)

-Walden by Henry David Thoreau

-Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

-The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

-Overtreated By Shannon Brownlee

-Listen To Your Heart by Fern Michaels (TERRIBLE BOOK!)

-The Ten, Make That Nine Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten, by Steve Martin

-The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin

-Baby Proof by Emily Giffen

-Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond

-The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

-The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

-Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

-Secrets of The Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

-A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

-Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

2011: (20)

-Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

-I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

-Tinkers by Paul Harding

-How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

-What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

-The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

-The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

-An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

-Tea Time For the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

-Bossypants by Tina Fey

-The Pearl by John Steinbeck

-Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

-Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian and Al Switzler

-Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

-The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

-Of Thee I Zing by Laura Ingraham

-A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

-Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

-Trust Me I'm Dr. Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne

2010: (26)

- History's Worst Decisions and the people who made them by Stephen Weir

- Junky by William S. Burroughs

- One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell

- Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman

- Food Rules by Michael Pollan

- Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

- Drive by Daniel Pink

-The Help by Kathryn Stockett

-The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

-US Americans Talk About Love Edited by John Bowe

-For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl

-The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

-Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston

-The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

-Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

-You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

-Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

-I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

-The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

-Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer

-Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

-A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

2009: (22)

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

• Remember Me? By Sophie Kinsella

• A Long Way Gone, memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah

• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

• Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill

• Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

• Crawfish Mountain by Ken Wells

• My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

• Mistakes Were Made, by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

• Gertrude by Herman Hesse

• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

- When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

- Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich

-The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

-Super Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner

2008: (21)

• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

• Inside the Minds, The Art of Public Relations by CEOs

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol

• The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones

• Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susan

• Wired by Bob Woodward

• One Pill Makes You Smaller by Lisa Dierbeck

• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

• Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

• Pound for Pound by F.X. Toole

• All the Way Home by David Giffels

• Bonk by Mary Roach

• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

• Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris

• The Sea by John Banville

• Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

• Female Chauvinist Pigs, Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy

2007: (28)

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• 1984 by George Orwell

• What Ifs? Of American History edited by Robert Cowley

• The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

• Rabbit, run by John Updike

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

• Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald

• FiSH by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen

• The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

• 1776 by David McCullough

• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

• Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh

• A Dog Year by Jon Katz

• 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann

• IV by Chuck Klosterman

• Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig

• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

2006: (27)

• Collapse, How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond

• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

• Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner

• Harry and Ike by Steve Neal

• State of Denial by Bob Woodward

• Crossroads in American History by James McPherson & Alan Brinkley

• The Lexus & The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

• Strategery by Bill Sammon

• Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

• Japanese Canadian Redress, The Toronto Story

• The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War by Howard Blum

• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

• Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

• Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi

• Wifey by Judy Blume

• Frantic Transmissions to and from LA by Kate Braverman

• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

• The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Hadden

• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

• Marley & Me by John Grogan

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

• Boni y Tigre by Kathrin Sander

2005: (51)

• Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

• Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

• Mary Magdalene by Lynn Picknett

• Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

• The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

• Bob Dylan Chronicles Volumn 1 by Bob Dylan

• Smashed by Koren Zailckas

• Culture Shock Costa Rica by Claire Wallerstein

• The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris

• Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart

• All the President's Men by Bernstein & Woodward

• The Final Days by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

• The Secret Man by Bob Woodward

• Shadow (5 Pres. & the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward

• All Politics is Local, by Tip O'Neill

• What's the Matter With Kansas? (How Conservatives Won the Heart of America) by Thomas Frank

• Don't think of an Elephant by George Lakoff

• Confessions of a Political Junkie by Hunter S. Thompson

• America The Book by Jon Stuart

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London

• Animal Farm by Goerge Orwell

• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnecut

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo

• The Great Fire by Shirly Hazzard

• A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Skirt and the Fiddle by Tristian Egolf

• Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

• Deception Point by Dan Brown

• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyers

• Angry Housewives by Lorna Landvik

• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

• Loving Che by Ana Menendez

• Wolves in Chic Clothing by Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman

• Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

• And Sister by Sophie Kinsella

• Trading Up by Candace Bushnell

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[CANNES 2021] La Sélection Officielle, la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, la Semaine de la Critique et l’Acid du Festival de Cannes 2021, qui se tiendra du mardi 6 au samedi 17 juillet, ont été annoncées. SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - COMPÉTITION 06/07 : ‘Annette’ de Leos Carax – Film d’ouverture 09/07 : ‘Benedetta’ de Paul Verhoeven 14/07 : ‘Bergman Island’ de Mia Hansen-Løve             ‘Titane’ de Julia Ducournau 18/08 : ‘Drive My Car’ de Ryûsuke Hamaguchi 25/08 : ‘France’ de Bruno Dumont 15/09 : ‘Le Genou d’Ahed’ de Nadav Lapid 22/09 : ‘Tout s’est bien passé’ de François Ozon 29/09 : ‘Flag Day’ de Sean Penn              ‘Les Intranquilles’ de Joachim Lafosse 13/10 : ‘Julie (en 12 chapitres)’ de Joachim Trier 27/10 : ‘The French Dispatch’ de Wes Anderson             ‘La Fracture’ de Catherine Corsini 03/11 : ‘Compartiment n°6’ de Juho Kuosmanen             ‘Les Olympiades’ de Jacques Audiard 10/11 : ‘Tre Piani’ de Nanni Moretti 17/11 : ‘Memoria’ d’Apichatpong Weerasethakul              ‘Haut et fort’ de Nabil Ayouch 01/12 : ‘La Fièvre de Petrov’ de Kirill Serebrennikov 08/12 : ‘Lingui, les liens sacrés’ de Mahamat-Saleh Haroun 15/12 : ‘Un héros’ d'Asghar Farhadi 02/02/22 : ‘Red Rocket’ de Sean Baker 16/03/22 : ‘L’Histoire de ma femme’ d'Ildikó Enyedi 11/05/22 : ‘Nitram’ de Justin Kurzel SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - UN CERTAIN REGARD Films datés : 21/07 : ‘Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle’ d’Arthur Harari – Film d’ouverture             ‘Bonne mère’ de Hafsia Herzi 15/09 : ‘Blue Bayou’ de Justin Chon 13/10 : ‘Freda’ de Gessica Généus 29/12 : ‘Lamb’ de Valdimar Jóhannsson 05/01/22 : ‘Mes frères et moi’ de Yohan Manca 26/01/22 : ‘Un monde’ de Laura Wandel 09/02/22 : ‘Great Freedom’ de Sebastian Meise                   ‘The Innocents’ d’Eskil Vogt 23/02/22 : ‘Les Poings desserrés’ de Kira Kovalenko 09/03/22 : ‘Women Do Cry’ de Mina Mileva et Vesela Kazakova 16/03/22 : ‘Moneyboys’ de C. B. Yi 13/04/22 : ‘Et il y eut un matin’ d'Eran Kolirin 29/04/22 : ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ de Tatiana Huezo (Mubi) 06/07/22 : ‘After Yang’ de Kogonada 03/08/22 : ‘Les Promesses d’Hasan’ de Semih Kaplanoğlu Films non datés : ‘A résidence’ d'Alexey German Jr. ‘La Civil’ de Teodora Ana Mihai ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ d’Abdullah Mohammad Saad ‘Les Nuits de Zhenwu’ de Na Jiazuo SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - CANNES PREMIÈRE Films datés : 08/09 : ‘Serre-moi fort’ de Mathieu Amalric 29/09 : ‘Cette musique ne joue pour personne’ de Samuel Benchetrit 12/12 : ‘JFK : L’Enquête’ d’Oliver Stone (OCS) 29/12 : ‘Tromperie’ d'Arnaud Desplechin              ‘Belle’ de Mamoru Hosoda 12/01/22 : ‘Jane par Charlotte’ de Charlotte Gainsbourg 20/01/22 : ‘Val’ de Ting Poo et Leo Scott (VOD) 13/04/22 : ‘Vortex’ de Gaspar Noé 18/05/22 : ‘Evolution’ de Kornél Mundruczo 21/09/22 : ‘Juste sous vos yeux’ de Hong Sang-Soo 30/11/22 : ‘Cow’ d'Andrea Arnold Film non daté : ‘Mothering Sunday’ d’Eva Husson QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS Films datés : 14/07 : ‘Journal de Tûoa’ de Miguel Gomes et Maureen Fazendeiro 04/08 : ‘De bas étage’ de Yassine Qnia 06/10 : ‘Mon légionnaire’ de Rachel Lang – Film de clôture 17/11 : ‘Les Magnétiques’ de Vincent Maël Cardona 12/01/22 : ‘Ouistreham’ d’Emmanuel Carrère – Film d’ouverture 02/02/22 : ‘The Souvenir Part I’ de Joanna Hogg – Séance spéciale                   ‘The Souvenir Part II’ de Joanna Hogg 23/02/22 : ‘La Légende du Roi Crabe’ d’Alessio Rigo de Righi et Matteo Zoppis 02/03/22 : ‘Ali & Ava’ de Clio Barnard 16/03/22 : ‘Medusa’ d’Anita Rocha da Silveira                   ‘Entre les vagues’ d’Anaïs Volpé 30/03/22 : ‘Retour à Reims (Fragments)’ de Jean-Gabriel Périot 06/04/22 : 'Employé / Patron’ de Manuel Nieto Zas 13/04/22 : ‘A Chiara’ de Jonas Carpignano                   ‘Toute une nuit sans savoir’ de Payal Kapadia                   ‘Face à la mer’ d'Ely Dagher 20/04/22 : ‘Murina’ d’Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović 27/04/22 : ‘Hit the Road’ de Panah Panahi                   ‘La Colline où rugissent les lionnes’ de Luàna Bajrami 01/06/22 : ‘Clara Sola’ de Nathalie Álvarez Mesen 22/03/23 : ‘Neptune Frost’ de Saul Williams et Anisia Uzeyman Films non datés : ‘Ripples of Life’ de Shujun Wei ‘Europa’ de Haider Rashid ‘Futura’ de Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher et Francesco Munzi ‘Întregalde’ de Radu Muntean SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE Films datés : 01/09 : ‘Une histoire d’amour et de désir’ de Leyla Bouzid – Film de clôture 15/09 : ‘Les Amours d’Anaïs’ de Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet – Séance spéciale, Film du 60e anniversaire 17/11 : ‘Olga’ d'Elie Grappe 26/01/22 : ‘Une jeune fille qui va bien’ de Sandrine Kiberlain – Séance spéciale 16/02/22 : ‘Piccolo Corpo’ de Laura Samani 02/03/22 : ‘Rien à foutre’ de Julie Lecoustre et Emmanuel Marre                   ‘Robuste’ de Constance Meyer – Film d’ouverture 09/03/22 : ‘Petite Nature’ de Samuel Theis – Séance spéciale 23/03/22 : ‘Plumes’ d’Omar El Zohairy                   ‘Bruno Reidal’ de Vincent Le Port – Séance spéciale 06/04/22 : ‘Libertad’ de Clara Roquet 27/04/22 : ‘La Femme du fossoyeur’ de Khadar Ayderus Ahmed Films non datés : ‘Amparo’ de Simón Mesa Soto SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - SÉANCES DE MINUIT 06/10 : ‘Tralala’ d’Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu 17/11 : ‘Oranges sanguines’ de Jean-Christophe Meurisse 24/11 : ‘Suprêmes’ d’Audrey Estrougo SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - SÉANCES SPÉCIALES Film daté : 20/10 : ‘Les Héroïques’ de Maxime Roy 02/02/22 : ‘H6’ de Yé Yé 07/03/22 : ‘Marin des montagnes’ de Karim Aïnouz (Arte) 29/06/22 : ‘Cahiers noirs I - Viviane’ et ‘Cahiers noirs II - Ronit’ de Shlomi Elkabetz 27/07/22 : ‘Mi iubita, mon amour’ de Noémie Merlant 15/09/22 : ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ de Wen Shipei (VOD) Films non datés : ‘New Worlds, The Cradle of a Civilization’ d’Andrew Muscato SÉLECTION ÉPHÉMÈRE DE FILMS SUR L’ENVIRONNEMENT Films datés : 22/09 : ‘Bigger than Us’ de Flore Vasseur 10/11 : ‘Marcher sur l'eau’ d’Aïssa Maïga 24/11 : ‘Animal’ de Cyril Dion 15/12 : ‘La Panthère des neiges’ de Marie Amiguet 22/12 : ‘La Croisade’ de Louis Garrel Films non datés : ‘Invisible Demons’ de Rahul Jain ‘I Am So Sorry’ de Zhao Liang ACID Films datés : 12/01/22 : ‘Little Palestine, Journal d’un siège’ d’Abdallah Al-Khatib 26/01/22 : ‘Municipale’ de Thomas Paulot 09/03/22 : ‘Soy Libre’ de Laure Portier 30/03/22 : ‘Vedette’ de Claudine Bories et Patrice Chagnard 20/04/22 : ‘I Comete’ de Pascal Tagnati 27/04/22 : ‘Ghost Song’ de Nicolas Peduzzi 12/09/22 : ‘Down with the King’ de Diego Ongaro (VOD) 12/10/22 : ‘Aya’ de Simon Coulibaly Gillard Film non daté : ‘Vénus sur la rive’ de Lin Wang A&B

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Strike Recap: Cormoran, Robin and the Story So Far

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Warning: contains major spoilers for The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil

To a childhood friend, he’s Bunsen. To his sister, he’s Dick. To the colleague whose life he saved, he’s Bob, and to his ex-fiancee, he’s Bluey. In the US, they know him as C.B. Strike, but in the UK, he’s Cormoran Strike, a Cornish PI operating out of Soho’s Denmark Street. He’s the star of four – soon to be five – detective novels by Robert Galbraith (an alias of J.K. Rowling), and he’ll soon be back on BBC One starring in his fourth miniseries Strike: Lethal White.

As it’s been two years since we last saw Cormoran and his agency partner Robin Ellacott in the Strike: Career of Evil finale, here’s a refresher on everything you need to remember from last time around.

How did Strike and Robin meet?

By chance. Robin was assigned to Strike’s Denmark Street office for a week of agency temping as his assistant, but soon found a taste and a talent for the work of a private investigator. In the first series, she successfully interviewed for a much higher-paying HR job in a bland city firm, but chose not to take them up on their offer, finding more satisfaction in Strike’s world, despite the disapproval of her accountant fiancé Matthew. 

How did Strike become a private investigator?

After his mother’s death, he dropped out of Oxford university, where he started dating his former fiancée Charlotte Chapman, and joined the army. After losing his lower leg in an explosion in Afghanistan, he transferred to SIB (Special Investigation Branch) and worked as a military police officer, before using those skills to set up his Soho detective agency. 

Why did Robin drop out of university?

Mid-way through a degree in psychology, Robin was the victim of an assault on campus by a serial perpetrator wearing a gorilla mask. She gave evidence that led to his conviction for rape and attempted murder, and the trauma led to her dropping out of university and moving back home with her parents. 

What happened between Strike and Charlotte?

Only fragments are known in the TV series. Before the series began, Cormoran was engaged to socialite Charlotte Chapman (Natasha O’Keeffe). When he first met Robin, he was mid-argument with Charlotte, who stormed out of his office promising that, like always, he would come crawling back to her. Cormoran moved out of their place and started sleeping in his Denmark Street office, where Charlotte sent his possessions in a box marked ‘Arsehole’. 

In flashbacks, we learn that Charlotte was pregnant at one point, and that Cormoran doubted he was the father. She self-harmed, possibly a suicide attempt, and he comforted her. Later, she announced her engagement to fellow socialite Jago Ross, and posted Cormoran her wedding photos. 

Who are Cormoran Strike’s parents?

Rock star Jonny Rokeby, whom we’ve never met in the series, and model/ ‘groupie’ Leda Strike. Rokeby is a famed womaniser who fathered several children and is largely absent in their lives (‘As far as Johnny Rokeby was concerned, I was just a shuddering of loins’), giving Cormoran multiple half-siblings. Leda was a supermodel who died of a heroin overdose that Strike has always suspected was administered deliberately by her second husband, musician Jeff Whittaker (Matt King). 

How many brothers and sisters does Cormoran have?

There are seven in total in the books, but we’ve only met two on screen – Lucy on his mother’s side and Al on his father’s, but the ‘Rokeby diaspora’ as Al wryly describes them, are scattered all over. 

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How did Strike lose his leg?

Serving in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. His convoy drove into an ambush in which an IED explosion killed several of his colleagues and lost Strike the lower half of one leg. He wears a prosthetic, but the injury means he’s unable to drive and generally less able to pursue suspects on foot than Robin. 

Did Robin marry Matthew?

Yes. In the final moments of Career of Evil, Robin said ‘I do’ to her long-time boyfriend Matthew, despite having learned that he’d cheated on her with a colleague – Sarah – years earlier when she was suffering from the aftermath of her university attack. After firing Robin for endangering the case by pursuing a lead solo, Strike raced to her Yorkshire wedding and made it just before the couple exchanged vows. Seeing Strike at the back of the church, Robin smiled and married Matthew.

Who murdered Lula Landry in The Cuckoo’s Calling?

Her adoptive brother Johnny Bristow (Leo Bill). Johnny hired Strike to investigate Lula’s apparent suicide in an attempt to frame Lula’s biological half-brother Jonah, whom she’d recently tracked down and to whom she’d planned to leave all her money. Johnny pushed Lula to her death and then tried to have Jonah arrested for the murder to make him ineligible to inherit, making Lula’s share of the family estate after their mother’s death come to Johnny. He also murdered Lula’s friend Rochelle, who was blackmailing him over the secret of Lula’s changed will, and as a child, Johnny also killed another of his adopted siblings – a childhood friend of Strike’s named Charlie – by pushing him into a quarry. 

Who killed novelist Owen Quine in The Silkworm?

His agent Liz Tassel (Lia Williams). Decades earlier, Liz was in love with fellow writer Andrew Fancourt (Peter Sullivan) and wrote a hurtful parody, which was published anonymously, of his wife’s novel. She spread rumours that Fancourt had written the parody himself, and his wife killed herself over it. Liz’s client Owen learned that she was behind the parody, and blackmailed her about it for years, forcing her to keep him on as a client over the much more successful and celebrated Andrew Fancourt. When Owen submitted a manuscript to Liz that was intended to spill the dirty secrets of the publishing world under a fantasy allegory (including her humiliating attempt to seduce Fancourt), she edited the manuscript to keep her secrets and sent it out to everybody it was based on. She told Owen to stage a public fight with her about it, then hide out in an old house to generate publicity for the sale of the book. In hiding, she murdered him in the same manner that the hero dies in his manuscript, stopping the blackmail once and for all.

Who killed teenager Kelsey Platt in Career of Evil?

Donald Laing (Neil Maskell), who bore a deadly grudge against Strike after he put him away years ago for the murder of his wife. After serving his sentence, Laing stole from and killed a neighbour, then stole the identity of Ray Williams, an ex-firefighter who’d emigrated, and ingratiated himself into the family of teenager Kelsey Platt, who harboured a crush on Cormoran Strike. To get revenge on Strike, Laing lured Kelsey to a London location where he killed and dismembered her, posing as a new client to make Strike visit the same location and frame him for the murder. Laing posted one of Kelsey’s legs to Robin at Strike’s office, along with lyrics from Strike’s mother’s favourite song by Blue Oyster Cult, in order to goad him. Strike realised that Ray Williams and Donald Laing – who pretended to suffer from debilitating arthritis, and was therefore ruled out as a suspect in Kelsey’s murder – were one and the same, under a wig, false beard and coloured contact lenses. 

What else have Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger been in?

Tom Burke has appeared in a long list of television series and films over the past twenty years, with key TV roles in The Musketeers, War & Peace, Utopia, The Hour and recently, Responsible Child. Film-wise, he won acclaim for the part of Anthony in Joanna Hogg’s 2019 film The Souvenir and appeared opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicholas Winding Refn’s 2013 film Only God Forgives.

Holliday Grainger has been acting since the age of six, and appeared in a range of children’s television as a child. Her film career has included period roles in Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Anna Karenina and Cinderella, as well as modern parts in The Riot Club and Bel Ami. TV-wise, she’s recently appeared in BBC thriller The Capture and Sky hit Patrick Melrose after making a name in The Borgias.

When is the next Strike book coming out?

It’s called Troubled Blood and is published by Sphere on the 15th of September 2020. Here’s the official synopsis (which contains a spoiler for Lethal White so beware):

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot’s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .

Strike: Lethal White starts on BBC One on Sunday the 30th of August at 9pm.

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When I tell people that the most produced playwright writing in the English language, aside from William Shakespeare, is a woman, they get all excited.

  When I tell them that that woman is Dame Agatha Christie they immediately deflate, “Oh,” they say, disappointment tinging their voice, “She doesn’t count.”

  And I want to wring their necks because this is the way women are ALWAYS treated! She’s the most produced playwright in the English language (except for WS) and she DOESN’T COUNT?? You can love her plays or you can hate them, but you cannot diminish her accomplishment. And yet that is just what her first husband, Col. Archibald Christie, is about in the course of Heidi Armbruster’s new play, Mrs. Christie.

  Female writers continue to fight an uphill battle for acceptance and support, as is witnessed by the fact that this world premiere production at the Dorset Theatre Festival was birthed over the past few years in the Dorset’s Women Artists Writing Group, a diverse group of mid-career female theatre artists, founded in 2016 by Armbruster and Mary Bacon, who stars as a thirty-something Agatha Christie, facing a turning point in her life and career.

  I am happy to report that, under the spritely direction of Giovanna Sardelli, Mrs. Christie is a most entertaining mélange of biography, sparkling with magical realism and theatrical wit.

  In 1926, Agatha Christie’s mother died, her marriage fell apart, and she disappeared for ten days. Meanwhile, here in the 21st century, the fictional Lucy (Jennifer Mudge) attempts to cope with her grief by heading off to Styles* for an Agatha Christie fan gathering where she meets a smarmy assistant to a Christie scholar, William (Stephen Stocking) from whom she swipes clues to a “lost” Christie play. As the action progresses, Lucy becomes more and more immeshed in the world of her favorite author as she and another conference attendee, the elderly Jane (Susan Greenhill), race to solve the mystery of the lost document and stay one step ahead of William.

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I can imagine no one better than the incandescent Mudge as the imaginary Lucy and the incisive Bacon in the title role. The three other women on the stage – the beguiling little Betsy Hogg as Agatha Christie’s assistant Charlotte “Carlo” Fisher and various servants named Mary, the elfin Greenhill as Jane, and the sultry Hannah Rose Caton as Col. Christie’s mistress, Nancy Neele, and a modern gal named Chloe – also light up the stage, leaving Stocking and Michael Frederic, as Col. Christie, rather in the shadows.

  The man who does brighten up the proceedings is Sevan Greene’s Hercule Poirot. Poirot was Christie’s first sleuth – her very first published mystery “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” (1920) featured M. Poirot and his moustaches. Here he joins Agatha during her ten day sojourn from society – and in the bathtub – while tens of thousands of Brits scour the countryside for her body.

  Agatha feels she has failed in the accepted roles of wife and mother while her successful run as a devoted daughter has concluded. Col. Christie is the Darrin Stephens to her Samantha, demanding that she give up what makes her unique (and what makes them good money) if she wants to be his wife, as if that is a prize to be coveted. Can she make a new life alone? Can she be “just” a writer? Can she withstand what was then the public disgrace of divorce?

  While Agatha has been wife, mother and successful novelist, Lucy has never found herself. Her life hasn’t had a first act, can she reinvent herself for a second? Can she even raise within herself the will to try?

  Despite this rather dire description of the leading ladies’ predicaments, Armbruster has a twinkle in her eye throughout and there are many good laughs in this play. Alexander Woodward’s set and Stacey Derosier’s lighting help establish time and place swiftly and in ingenious ways. Sarah Netfield has designed some great roaring twenties looks for Bacon, Caton, and Hogg, while giving contemporary Lucy a saucy style all her own.

  The soundscape by Fitz Patton also successfully melds period and modern music without being jarring or offensive. In fact the overall effect is sprightly and effervescent, in keeping with the visuals created by Sardelli and the frothier aspects of Armbruster’s script.

  Under Dina Janis leadership Dorset is building a reputation as a nurturing home for female artists. This is the second world premiere by a female playwright on the Dorset schedule this summer, following on the heels of the thrilling DIG by Theresa Rebeck. Wendy MacLeod’s Slow Food closes the season. Rebeck, who has a home nearby, has premiered a half dozen new works at the Festival, and their Pipeline Series of play readings fostered the development of The Cost of Living by Martyna Majok, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018.

  Whether or not you think Agatha Christie “counts,” you should definitely count Mrs. Christie among the shows you see this season.

  Mrs. Christie by Heidi Armbruster, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, runs from August 1-17 at the Dorset Theatre Festival, 104 Cheney Road in Dorset VT. Set design by Alexander Woodward, lighting design by Stacey Derosier, costume design by Sarah Netfield, sound design by Fitz Patton, stage manager Alyssa K. Howard. CAST: Mary Bacon as Agatha Christie, Jennifer Mudge as Lucy, Susan Greenhill as Jane, Betsy Hogg as Carlo/Mary, Hannah Rose Caton as Nancy Neele/Chloe, Michael Frederic as Col. Christie/Nigel, Stephen Stocking as William/Collins, Sevan Greene as Hercule Poirot.

  The box office may be reached by calling (802) 867-2223 ext. 101, Tuesday through Saturday, 12 – 6 pm. For more information, or to purchase subscriptions and tickets online, visit www.dorsettheatrefestival.org.

  * The home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, that the Christies named “Styles” after the house in her first published mystery, is not open to the public. One of her later homes, Greenway House in southern Devon, is. 

REVIEW: “Mrs. Christie” at the Dorset Theatre Festival When I tell people that the most produced playwright writing in the English language, aside from William Shakespeare, is a woman, they get all excited.