Five From The Archive (no.2)

Five From The Archive (no.2)

StuckInABook at Stuck in a Book - 1 day ago

Thanks for all your encouragement for *Five from the Archive* last week - it was great to hear your suggestions, and I think this will be a fun feature. (If you missed my explanation for this new feature, click herefor no.1.) Now I've even made myself a logo for it! Feel free to borrow it if you want to use the idea. This week... *Five... Books Set in World War II* * * *1.) **Miss Ranskill Comes Home (1946) by Barbara Euphan Todd* *In short*: Published by Persephone Books, this novel tells of Miss Ranskill, a woman who was stranded on a desert island and returns to find England... more »

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Epigram-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Epigram

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.

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Five From The Archive (no.2)

Five From The Archive (no.2)

StuckInABook at Stuck in a Book - 1 day ago

Thanks for all your encouragement for *Five from the Archive* last week - it was great to hear your suggestions, and I think this will be a fun feature. (If you missed my explanation for this new feature, click herefor no.1.) Now I've even made myself a logo for it! Feel free to borrow it if you want to use the idea. This week... *Five... Books Set in World War II* * * *1.) **Miss Ranskill Comes Home (1946) by Barbara Euphan Todd* *In short*: Published by Persephone Books, this novel tells of Miss Ranskill, a woman who was stranded on a desert island and returns to find England... more »

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For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland

For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland

StuckInABook at Stuck in a Book - 4 hours ago

When I started reading *For Sylvia: An Honest Account* by Valentine Ackland (published posthumously, in 1985) I was rather prepared to loathe the author. I've recently read Sylvia Townsend Warner's *Diaries*, and I haven't come across more heartbreaking diary entries than those concerning the period when Ackland (STW's partner for decades) decided to move her lover Elizabeth Wade White into their home, while Sylvia Townsend Warner moved out to a hotel, as some sort of experiment. Although Warner is devoted to Ackland until Ackland's death, and indeed until her own, she comes acros... more »

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