Beautiful Hannah! ( by the way, great peek at your excellent mani in your photo😂
Lovely reading as usual. I we t to Aix with Kate when she was a teenager and even then she was telling me all about the impressionist painters and the particular light that drew so many of them to the South of France. I remember Aix fondly as a very very hot town full of delightful fountains and gorgeous honey coloured buildings. And the ethereal but noisy Cicada singing away.
Its very very encouraging and exciting for women of my generation to be listened to, dare I say enjoyed as equal as Artists and writers.My husband Michael, asked me recently if I had a cooy of " The tenant Of Wildfell Hall" a favourite. Bronte story and profound social observation of the struggles of being a single mother in 18 th century.
I was so surprised as he had heard a long discussion on Radio 4 about it and really was interested in the whole Bronte clan and the experience of the struggles women had to be taken seriously in their era.
It was sad that , I felt the need to explain the depth of skill , intellect and Artistry it takes to write a novel. He told me that, as a male in a public school English literature was exclusively about Male writers. From Shakespeare to Graham Green and all in between. No boy would have been seen dead with a novel by Austen or Bro te sisters .. perhaps Virginia Woolf would be touched upon but as a passing nod to getting on with the serious stuff of Lytton Strachey .
The times they ARE a changing darling Hannah and about time.
Ah, all sounds lovely. Congrats on the commission! The French Riviera? What a horrible place to have to be forced to travel to write about ;) Hope we get to see some pics from there. It's all gloomy-grey and cold here, so I will accept vicarious enjoyment of other parts of the world 😄
Beautiful Hannah! ( by the way, great peek at your excellent mani in your photo😂
Lovely reading as usual. I we t to Aix with Kate when she was a teenager and even then she was telling me all about the impressionist painters and the particular light that drew so many of them to the South of France. I remember Aix fondly as a very very hot town full of delightful fountains and gorgeous honey coloured buildings. And the ethereal but noisy Cicada singing away.
Its very very encouraging and exciting for women of my generation to be listened to, dare I say enjoyed as equal as Artists and writers.My husband Michael, asked me recently if I had a cooy of " The tenant Of Wildfell Hall" a favourite. Bronte story and profound social observation of the struggles of being a single mother in 18 th century.
I was so surprised as he had heard a long discussion on Radio 4 about it and really was interested in the whole Bronte clan and the experience of the struggles women had to be taken seriously in their era.
It was sad that , I felt the need to explain the depth of skill , intellect and Artistry it takes to write a novel. He told me that, as a male in a public school English literature was exclusively about Male writers. From Shakespeare to Graham Green and all in between. No boy would have been seen dead with a novel by Austen or Bro te sisters .. perhaps Virginia Woolf would be touched upon but as a passing nod to getting on with the serious stuff of Lytton Strachey .
The times they ARE a changing darling Hannah and about time.
Look forward very much to next weeks musings .xx
"...I received a commission to write an article about the French Riviera..."
Getting PAID to write an article about the French Riviera; on site?! Mon Dieu!! My dream since puberty.
"But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence."
M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
Ah, all sounds lovely. Congrats on the commission! The French Riviera? What a horrible place to have to be forced to travel to write about ;) Hope we get to see some pics from there. It's all gloomy-grey and cold here, so I will accept vicarious enjoyment of other parts of the world 😄