Posts Tagged 'Charles Reade'
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Reade Archive Visit – Wolf Thoughts
Editorial Note: I actually prepared the following write-up during the archive visit, and never found time to post it. I have chosen not to edit it, instead electing to leave my thoughts as they were at the time. A surprising
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Reade Archive Visit – Wolf Thoughts
Editorial Note: I actually prepared the following write-up during the archive visit, and never found time to post it. I have chosen not to edit it, instead electing to leave my thoughts as they were at the time. A surprising
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Notes on Reade Visit
Note: huge difference between how he himself writes on the cards and what they look like when the secretary copies them afterwards. Secretary’s is neater, with sections spaced out by straight double-lines in purple ink. Why purple? Did he use
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Notes on Reade Visit
Note: huge difference between how he himself writes on the cards and what they look like when the secretary copies them afterwards. Secretary’s is neater, with sections spaced out by straight double-lines in purple ink. Why purple? Did he use
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Miriam’s thoughts re: Reade visit
The Reade notecards weren’t exactly what I expected. After our discussions and readings about his thorough methods, about how he wanted the notecards to serve as proof or evidence that what he had written was based in fact, I was
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Miriam’s thoughts re: Reade visit
The Reade notecards weren’t exactly what I expected. After our discussions and readings about his thorough methods, about how he wanted the notecards to serve as proof or evidence that what he had written was based in fact, I was
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Quarry for Middlemarch
Here’s Harvard’s Houghton Library’s facsimile of George Eliot’s notebook Quarry for Middlemarch; this page contains Eliot’s representation of the vote for the new hospital chaplain over a map of Middlemarch and environs: But this entry, from the end of the
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Quarry for Middlemarch
Here’s Harvard’s Houghton Library’s facsimile of George Eliot’s notebook Quarry for Middlemarch; this page contains Eliot’s representation of the vote for the new hospital chaplain over a map of Middlemarch and environs: But this entry, from the end of the
Hard Cash- a brief thought
I had this thought while reading about Dickens for my paper: Hard Cash never seemed believable to me, and it’s been hard for me to say why. Yes, the things that happen are pretty outrageous, but if I read in
Hard Cash- a brief thought
I had this thought while reading about Dickens for my paper: Hard Cash never seemed believable to me, and it’s been hard for me to say why. Yes, the things that happen are pretty outrageous, but if I read in
The Brig
Hi! This play by the Living Theatre had a similar goal to Reade; both attempted to reform prison systems through intensive research-turned-art. The play is not online (contact Allen Kuharski for a copy), but here’s a link to a some
The Brig
Hi! This play by the Living Theatre had a similar goal to Reade; both attempted to reform prison systems through intensive research-turned-art. The play is not online (contact Allen Kuharski for a copy), but here’s a link to a some
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Thoughts on Reade Visit
Here, in no particular order, are my thoughts on last week’s visit to the Charles Reade Collection at Princeton: My biggest surprise at encountering the Charles Reade’s notecards was how personalized and novel-centric they were. By that, I mean that
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Thoughts on Reade Visit
Here, in no particular order, are my thoughts on last week’s visit to the Charles Reade Collection at Princeton: My biggest surprise at encountering the Charles Reade’s notecards was how personalized and novel-centric they were. By that, I mean that
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Week 9 (Reade archive visit 2)
Here’s a slideshow of photos from our second excursion to the Reade archive.
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Week 9 (Reade archive visit 2)
Here’s a slideshow of photos from our second excursion to the Reade archive.
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Hard Cash Illustrations
Above are the illustrations in the Peter Fenelon Collier (1890) illustrated edition of “Hard Cash” in The Works of Charles Reade.
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Hard Cash Illustrations
Above are the illustrations in the Peter Fenelon Collier (1890) illustrated edition of “Hard Cash” in The Works of Charles Reade.