http://hopemirrlees.com/2009/madeleine-meets-web/ Her work, life, and historical context Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:20:24 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://hopemirrlees.com/2009/madeleine-meets-web/comment-page-1/#comment-104 margaret ellison Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:03:27 +0000 http://hopemirrlees.com/?p=58#comment-104 I learned in the past 2 years that Hope Mirrlees is a distant cousin of mine via the Moncrieff and Pattison families. We bought a copy of "Lud in the Mist" because I wanted to read the writing of a relative I had never met. I am immensely proud of her scholarship and efforts at writing but I must say I did not care for her book in the least. As an American reader, perhaps it is something English to admire this fantasy novel. I don't like it and I wonder what the hoopla is all about. Perhaps I just don't care for the style of her writing. And I am still so proud of all she did in her lifetime. Wish I had known about her and could have met her and talked with her about her unique life I learned in the past 2 years that Hope Mirrlees is a distant cousin of mine via the Moncrieff and Pattison families. We bought a copy of “Lud in the Mist” because I wanted to read the writing of a relative I had never met. I am immensely proud of her scholarship and efforts at writing but I must say I did not care for her book in the least. As an American reader, perhaps it is something English to admire this fantasy novel. I don’t like it and I wonder what the hoopla is all about. Perhaps I just don’t care for the style of her writing. And I am still so proud of all she did in her lifetime. Wish I had known about her and could have met her and talked with her about her unique life

]]> http://hopemirrlees.com/2009/madeleine-meets-web/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Blissbat Loves Books » Blog Archive » Hope Mirrlees’s First Novel Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:27:24 +0000 http://hopemirrlees.com/?p=58#comment-81 [...] Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, is now online in full text at my Mirrlees website. Here’s the introductory blog post. [...] [...] Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, is now online in full text at my Mirrlees website. Here’s the introductory blog post. [...]

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