When Mitch Peatwick in What the Lady Wants (1995) tells Mae Sullivan that “the first rule in life is ‘everybody lies’,” he articulates one of…
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The arguments surrounding the use of rape as a device in popular romance, within both reader and scholarly communities, have most often pivoted on the…
Comments closedThere are many forms of writing; only in literature, however, can there be an attempt at restitution over and above the mere recital of facts,…
Comments closedIn the 1920s, the popular novelist Berta Ruck read a selection of short stories written by the then-unpublished Rosamond Lehmann. Delivering her verdict, she proclaimed…
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