Raising a Little Theater
In Austen’s Mansfield Park, Tom talks about ‘raising a little theater’ paralleling it to the idea of raising a little hell.
Continue reading →In Austen’s Mansfield Park, Tom talks about ‘raising a little theater’ paralleling it to the idea of raising a little hell.
Continue reading →Family letters and remembrances tell us that Jane Austen played a variety of games with her young nieces an nephews, and was quite good at many of them, including bilboquet.
Continue reading →This has happened to me before, so it really should not have surprised me. But I had hopes that just maybe this would be the time that Garmin would not hate me. Nope, no such luck. Garmin hates me. Utterly and completely. Garmin simply hates me. Usually, whenever we take a trip, we share the long highway driving hours, but once we get to the fiddly bits as we close in on our destination, I … Continue reading →
Like so much of Georgian England, home theatricals were about the preservation of rank.
Continue reading →