It is my favourite poem Loved this video

Thank you for this wonderful glimpse into Katherine Mansfields life. I have always related to the Dolls House. My family tree in NZ has its roots beginning in Karori from the Mckelvey's, William and Charlotte.

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I don’t know much about the Church of England. I’m American. I don’t understand why Reverend Hale decides to leave the Church of England. He believes in God and Christ. She never explains why. I assume that people living in that time period would understand.

Often Susannah Fullerton will have poetry readers read good poems. I don't know why she bothers. Who could read this poem better than she? This woman is such a gift to the world. She is concise, all encompassing in her analyses, and has one of the most beautiful voices in the world. I love Susannah Fullerton. I love her enthusiasm for great literature. It is infectious. Her website and her mailings are blessings like she is. Thank you G-d for this miracle of a woman.

Have you heard it has been rebooted it for modern audiences?

Greetings dear professor such a nice explaned the poem with such a sweet voice🎉🎉

They had five children, but Catherine and Thomas died , leaving John. Dora, and Willy. 6:11

Thank you for this video!

This conversation deserves more views. Commenting for the algorithm! Agreed: Richard E. Grant was the highlight of the movie. I also liked the overall aesthetics, the colour palette etc (despite the huge liberties taken with the costumes, particularly Anne's). Henry Goulding was also very charismatic and apparently he was offered the role of Wentworth, in which I think he'd be much better than the actor they ended up with, but he just thought that Mr Elliot was a more interesting character to play. Seeing how the screenplay chose to portray Wentworth, it's hard to blame him. That's about everything I enjoyed about this adaptation.

Women do their sex a mighty injustice by continuing to promote a sexless maid who, though stylistically gifted, wasn't a mature and socially engaged person. Mary Anne Evans is a far better writer, Mary Shelley a wiser woman, and Charlotte Bronte and the author of North and South wrote more significant fiction. Grow up, teenyboppers! 😮

People can enjoy uncle Tom's cabin or north and south. I can't stand them for the sheer callousness

Thankyou very much ❤❤❤ Greetings from Germany

My Grandfather used to recite these to me. When he said "Are You?" he would make the funniest face and get right in my face. Oh, I would laugh! Good time. I need this for my children!

Thank you susannah. Very interesting poem.did no know of robert browning darker poems. ❤❤

If I am not mistaken the prince who later became king Louis Phillipe the First (The citizen king) spent some of his youth in Sicily with his family when they were expelled from France during the Revolution and it was here he met his wife queen Amelie the daughter of the king of the Two Sicilies. I think you can visit the farm where he lived. Getting back to British connections the Sydney seaside suburb of Bronte was named after Bronte in Sicily - meaning "thunder" in Greek as it's on the slopes of Etna and you can hear the thunderous rumblings of that volcano when it erupts.This was all in relation to Lord Nelson who saved the Neapolitan monarchy from the French and in gratitude the Neapolitan king gave him the estate and title of duke of Bronte which until relatively recently was owned by Nelson's heirs. And then the famed English literary family also changed their name to bronte because of Nelson.

Thanks for speaking about this significant author. As with Mary Evans, she is really more significant than the often promoted, and over-rated, Austen. And I enjoyed the visual form of "North and South" too.

Plus Emma is my least favourite protagonist and least favourite Austen novel. Dull dull dull

I find Claire Tomalin's book stodgy and unreadable. A huge thumbs down from me. I put it in the charity box. Not good at all

Thank you ASA. .. fascinating, enlightening.

Thank you for this. I have lived in Alton for nearly 10 years and have only been dimly aware of Elizabeth Gaskell. I walked past the blue plate on her Holybourne house the other day and resolved to find out more! (We suffer from Jane Austin overload here it's good to find another name to be proud of. Other famous local names are Gilbert White (very up my street) and Fanny Adams (poor little thing murdered 10 mins walk away from my house). So thank you for this lovely introduction to EG... I'm on a mission now to find her books and the TV adaptations.😊

I have been reading Georgette for 60 years. Still love these extremely satisfying stories. I have so many favorites. I love the secondary characters as much as, or more, than the main. Many of the audio versions are just brilliant. Some of the readers/actors found on the cassette books don't seem to be available on the CDs which is a shame. However, the CDs are much less costly.

Venetia is certainly one of her very best! Great characters and detail, so much fun and the typical humor that makes reading GH so very enjoyable. I have a pretty fair collection of the audiobooks too, and when read by a good actor they are superb listening and often laugh out loud funny. Must also comment on the wonderful Arthur Barbosa jacket covers. They are just stunning and I wish they could still be in use. I don't have many of those.

Yes, I agree, there's no better way to learn about the past than by reading well-researched and well-imagined historical fiction. I'd never heard of Anya Seton, but now I'm definitely going to pick up a few of her books and give her a go. Thank you.

Great video. I quite enjoy the Hornblower books, but have yet to watch the television show. Will have to give the Aubrey/Maturin series a try, though I hear they're more of a dry read by comparison.

Love your talk about historical novels .as a teenager love them and they started my pasion for history. I have read and love many of the books and series that you mentioned .As a teenager and later loved jean plady that really made history come alive. Also a contemporary author that must not be overlooked in historical mysteries is kerry greenwood and her fabulous pryne fisher mysteries.thank you for this talk have enjoyed it and will go and reread some that you mentioned❤❤

You have a good taste in books. It would be very good of you if you would consider uploading and share the audio versions of the books you like the most.

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Venetia is awesome! It would make a great movie

I read Green Darkness on the suggestion of a colleague and it was very good

Marvelous reading of a vivid poem. Those who can’t write poetry write short stories. Those who can’t write short stories write novels. Those who can’t write novels write TV pilots.

I discovered Georgette Heyer in my teens, and had read most of her books (including the detective novels) by my early 20s. I was never drawn back to Venetia, and it wasn't one of my favourites. However, now I've watched your video, I'm planning to buy that Folio Society copy in the New Year, and I'll be interested to read it from a more mature perspective.

Thank you for your vlog, Susannah. Milly Molly Mandy is the first book I remember reading to myself and it represents a sort of ultimate 'comfort read', due to its simple plots and kind characters. I loved the map, too.

I like many of GH's novels, but I am afraid Venetia left me a bit cold. It's partly because not a lot happens in the novel (compared to many of her books), but mostly because of what is effectively a sexual assault near the start and, worse, at the end she basically gives Dammerol permission to be unfaithful and he doesn't deny that he will! The novel is enjoyable in parts, and our heroine can be fun in true GH style, but this seeming lack of a true bond at the end, and the slowish pace put me off.

I’m reading this one now and really enjoying it. I’m newer to Heyer and I think this is about my 5th one. Heyer’s writing seems to be so consistently good! I love the humor in her books as well.

Thank you for your very remarkable presentation and reading. J'admire votre façon de déclamer ce beau poème de Prévert, que je fais souvent écouter à mes élèves. Il est dommage que la poésie intéressse de moins en moins de personnes aujourd'hui. Mais, Dieu merci, il y a encore des passionnés de lecture et de poésie pour perpétuer cet art dans le coeur des nouvelles générations. Merci encore et grand courage pour tout.🥰

I lived near Knutsford as a kid and I pop back when I can. Cranford is actually Knutsford where Elizabeth lived.

Just finished reading Possession for the 'nth time; I read it at least once a year. I love that it incorporates many of my favourite themes - detective fiction, romance, fairy tale, poetry, research, deception, evasion - as well as the over-arching theme of possession in all its meanings. It's also fulfilling in how it plays with time and with the reader's knowledge against what the characters 'think' they know; the hair in the watch case for example (we know who gave it to Randolph Ash but the characters only speculate, and wrongly).. I wouldn't call the Ash's marriage exactly unhappy but it's certainly deceptive and evasive, just like Ellen Ash's journal. Byatt's complete possession of her craft in this book is wonderful. I also love The Children's Book, another tour de force.

Thank you for this lovely video!

Thank you for this interesting discussion of one of my favourite authors. Heyer's books are inexhaustible. You can return to them regularly, laugh, and enjoy them just as you did decades ago, and you'll always find something new. Her strength is, as you said, world building. In some of her best novels, a house becomes a character in the novel - who could forget Fontley or Stanyon Castle? Her dogs, younger brothers, dull suitors and busybodies are no less important to the novel than her heroes and heroines. That's what makes her such a good writer. You don't see an obstacle race to the altar with vague stock characters in the background like many romance writers do. You get a complete immersion into a fascinating world. The Nonesuch, The Reluctant Widow, The Black Sheep and A Civil Contract are masterpieces, and their characters live on in their reader's minds. If you're ever in a dilemma, ask yourself: what would Ancilla or Jenny do? You know the answer, and you should probably follow their example ;-) I'm probably the only one who doesn't like Frederica, I find the heroine annoying and self-centered. Her empathy and care are focused solely on her siblings. I much prefer Venetia's or Arabella's characters. Venetia is such a lovely character. I enjoyed Kloester's books so much. Her biography of self-deprecating, witty Georgette made her come alive for me just as vividly as Georgette's novel characters. Thank you for bringing Georgette into the ranks of respectable authors again. She never deserved the snobbery displayed against her. And nobody depicted snobbery better than she did anyway.

I have just finished reading this masterpiece and, being alone in my livingroom, I felt an urge for sharing the feelings this story brought me over the last days. I cannot understand how could anywone leave this book unread, difficult as it was for me to put it on my bedside table every night! It's absolutelly well writen and interesting! I'm so glad I'm not alone in my apreciation! Thank you Susannah! (I'm so, so sorry for my poor english writing... greetins from Portugal)

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This is fantastic. Thankyou 💐

This is lovely thankyou 🙏 💐 Edit to add I agree with Ruth Mansfield Park is my favourite also. With Persuasion a close second. Fascinating discussion. I'm so glad I discovered your channel! Many Thanks 😊

I respect all successful women.

Enjoying this very much, but will just say that Ang Lee was the director of the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility

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A good history and it still provoques the "feelings" to the reader. A classic.