women writers

Flannery O’Connor and Charles Dickens

Flannery O’Connor and Charles Dickens

My first year as a research student has been full of ups and downs. Mainly I have been overwhelmed with the amount of information I feel that I should know. This is coupled with fleeting moments of Alan Partridge-esque “aha!” experiences when I come across a lucrative discovery. For my thesis, I am using my […]

A Solution to the ‘Perfect Murder’? P. D. James and the Case of Julia Wallace

A Solution to the ‘Perfect Murder’? P. D. James and the Case of Julia Wallace   At the end of last month, The Sunday Times proclaimed that the crime novelist P. D. James had found a solution to the murder of Julia Wallace, an unsolved case from early 1931 that has sometimes been dubbed the […]

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner, 2013

Alice Munro, Canadian ‘Master’ of the Short Story

Despite being deemed a “writer’s writer” and “the Canadian Chekhov”, Alice Munro has never achieved wide recognition. That has just changed. From now on, she will be known as “the Nobel Prize winning author”, having received the world’s most prestigious literary award on 10th October. At 82, Munro is not the oldest author to receive […]

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