Get it here.This is quite a short work, but really got me thinking about sexual politics. On the face of it, Daisy is a beautiful, free-spirited American girl who falls foul of European standards of propriety, and simultaneously, by means of metaphor, its disease-laden miasma. I say on the face of it, because a little [...]
Get it here.In ‘Something New’ Wodehouse has Joan Valentine, the female writer,say of the magazine she works for: ‘It’s a horrid little paper–all brown-paper patterns and advice to thelovelorn and puzzles. I do a short story for it every week, undervarious names. A duke or an earl goes with each story.’ One week, I suspect [...]
Get it hereAt first I was fairly sure I would not enjoy this book. It starts slowly, but I could not work out why – Mr James writes very well, but I felt it lacked something. At the start of chapter four I realised what it was: dialogue. Because when it starts, things really start [...]