Comments for Hope Mirrlees on the Web

Comment on About This Site by Mike Tortorello

Mike Tortorello — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:20:24 +0000

Hello Erin,

I can be reached at peganapress@live.com. I’ve still had no success getting permission to reprint Paris. Sent a registered letter to Dr. John Saunders, one of the executors of Hope’s estate and was undeliverable. Am trying to reach Mrs. Eliot through her agent but have met with no success so far. Nevertheless, I have printed the first two pages of the poem following the spacing from your scan very laboriously. Can see how this must have driven Virginia Woolfe over the edge. Anyway, any help you might give would be appreciated. I’m determined to see this through and get Paris printed.

Mike

Comment on Madeleine Meets the Web by margaret ellison

margaret ellison — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:03:27 +0000

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

Comment on Jane Ellen Harrison on Ritual by Erin

Erin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:45:52 +0000

And thanks to you as well, Mr. Wessells. Reminiscences is a real joy.

Comment on Jane Ellen Harrison on Ritual by Erin

Erin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:43:18 +0000

Thank you so much, Professor Beard. I am a great fan of your work, and it’s extremely kind of you to stop by.

Comment on Jane Ellen Harrison on Ritual by H. Wessells

H. Wessells — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:46:35 +0000

Superb quotation, Erin. This makes clear to me why Harrison’s dream of the dance of the bear was so significant to her (Hope-in-the-Mist p. 10).
Thank you!
And my, what distinguished company you draw!

Comment on Jane Ellen Harrison on Ritual by mary beard

mary beard — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:48:33 +0000

Hi erin.. interesting! good luck, mary

Comment on About This Site by Erin

Erin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:59:13 +0000

Thanks, Marianne! Fixed. Glad to hear you could find a nice edition locally — we’re a bit hard up for nice editions in the US.

Comment on Welcome to Readers of Swanwick and Gaiman by Audra

Audra — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:29:18 +0000

I’m so pleased to see a site dedicated to Ms Mirrlees! (Found you thru Gaiman’s blog.)

Comment on About This Site by Marianne

Marianne — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:16:27 +0000

Hi,
Just a quick note to say that the barnes & noble review has moved – it’s now at http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Library-Without-Walls/Lud-in-the-Mist/ba-p/820

Thanks for an interesting site – I found you via Neil Gaiman’s blog, but I found Lud-in-the-Mist in my local library in the Gollancz edition you mentioned.
Marianne

Comment on About This Site by Ben Towle

Ben Towle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:08:01 +0000

Erin – Thanks so much for the information. If you do try to track down the “theoretical rights-holder” (or want any help trying to do so) please contact me via the email address I submitted. Doing a comics/graphic novel adaptation of this work is something I’d really be interested in, if copyright issues could be sorted out. I’ll certainly keep the prospect on my radar for the future–or sooner if an orphan works bill ever makes its way through the legislature.