I wrote about the author Elizabeth Goudge a few days ago. I had just discovered her book, Henrietta’s House (1942) and hadn’t really enjoyed it. Even so, I realized that Internet Archive** had a lot of Goudge’s books and I started rereading the Eliot trilogy, The Bird in the Tree (1940), The Herb of Grace [...]
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Vacation, Part II. Still thinking about a book.
Tuesday I wrote about a book by Dava Sobel from 2016. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. Dava Sobel. Viking. 2016. I’ve been rereading it. Sobel is a remarkable writer, able to explain scientific concepts clearly. This can deceive the reader into thinking a topic [...]
I’m on vacation but I read a fascinating book …
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. Dava Sobel. Viking. 2016. The ladies in question started working at Harvard Observatory in the late 1800’s and some of them continued their work until the 1930’s and 1940’s. These women were not students at Harvard; they were employees [...]
Elizabeth Goudge, writer
What do you do when a book, written by an author you’ve read avidly in the past, but which you’ve never heard of before, comes to your attention? You run out and hunt it down. And then, maybe, you think there’s a reason why you never heard of it … Last week, Henrietta’s House by [...]
Old time illustrations
A week or two ago I mentioned reading Pride and Prejudice on Project Gutenberg. The particular edition that was up on that site had adorable illustrations and illuminated capitals done by an artist named Hugh Thomson. I went looking and discovered that Thomson had illustrated several other books, including one called Highways and Byways in [...]
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