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"my cousin rahcel" readers

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FluffyMummy123 · 06/06/2007 10:05

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Boco · 06/06/2007 14:25

She was def bisexual - i'm sure it was gertrude lawrence she was sleeping with. How would rick stein know?

BishyBarneyBee · 06/06/2007 14:16

have you read angela carter nights at the circus - have that on pile.

Unless was top.

DDM was not a lesbain according to nob-end Rick Stein.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:44

If i could time travel i'd hang out with Lee Miller and her chums at Farley Farm.

Her pictures make me long to have tea parties with picasso and Man Ray and Eileen Agar. I've got a one of her photos of a topless picnic, they're all laughing heartily and looking dashingly bohemian.

It's not fair. A topless picnic now would just be silly.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:39

Who Lorna Sage hang about with Carter? Most certainly. Leading academic light on Ms Carter.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:39

Oooh yes. Red lipstick and deep rolling laughter, jazz records and gardening.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:38

Didn't she hang out with Angela Carter?

No not read it, but i'm sure i've read about it.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:37

Gosh - must have a bit of a softspot for that simmering male energy too. Buttons tweeds, shuffles cards - poker?

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:36

Yes I loved Angela Carter. Essential adolescent girl reading, I think. Then you should read Bad Blood too, if you haven't already.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:35

Love Angela Carter too. First thing i read of hers was the Bloody Chamber when i was about 13 and it amazed me. Loved the hero on horseback being the mother instead of a lover.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:34
ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:26

I like angry female writers, they're spikey and fun. Like Carol Shield's book Unless - wow that was cross.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:23

LOVE IT.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:22

du maurier sounded a bit scary too - cold and distant to her family. Simmering male energy.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:19

du maurier or highsmith? Yes. du maurier much nicer person I think than Highsmith, who is frankly scary, but in a good misanthropic kind of way.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:16

Thought she was bi-curious. Didn't she have an affair with gertrude lawrence? or did i make that up.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:10

Good lesbian writer du Maurier, bet she wore thick tweed trousers and took no prisoners. No messing about. Similarly, I rather like Patrica Highsmith.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:06

oops
Read it anyway - there are many twists and turns.

JoolsToo · 06/06/2007 13:05

Boco - great - won't bother with it now!

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 13:05

Oh no grumpy, she has all the lights on so she can read ALL NIGHT LONG and never sleep and be weird. Not dreary at all, just a bit scratchy and awkward.

Is the Mary Wesley book the one by Nicholas Shakespeare? (sotto voce: they had an affair you know. When she was bout 109)

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FluffyMummy123 · 06/06/2007 13:05

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FluffyMummy123 · 06/06/2007 13:03

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GrumpyOldHorsewoman · 06/06/2007 13:03

I tried to get into it, really I did. My sister loved it but I just found it the literary equivalent of sitting in a dreary room with the curtains closed.

Boco · 06/06/2007 13:03

That's funny, i thought she was innocent. Would you have sent her daaaaarn? (if she hadn't have died tragically) -oops - hope didnt' spoil that for anyone then.

DDM is great at wicked wayward women who may do bad things, but as a reaction to opressive male dominated society - and you can't help feeling that she was kind of on their side. Is there a biography of ddm? Bet that'd be interesting.

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FluffyMummy123 · 06/06/2007 13:02

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JoolsToo · 06/06/2007 13:02

I can thoroughly recommend Betty Smith's 'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' its just wonderful.

I read when I was about 19.

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