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...So do those of Emma, Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility and Anne Elliot in Persuasion. Austen’s four great heroines, DeForest and Johnson point out, are closest in speech to Austen herself....
...Incorporating music, dance, literature and art, the group was unusually female-friendly with members who, alongside Dismorr, included the writer Katherine Mansfield and artists such as Anne Estelle Rice...
...There is a touching image of Woolf, lovingly typesetting Mansfield’s stories, letter by letter, for the Hogarth Press. Woolf recognised Mansfield as her equal and ally....
...Emily Anne Thornberry was born in July 1960 in Guildford, Surrey....
...In Persuasion, the little non-events of heroine Anne Elliot’s suspended life do duty for years of separation and war — the domestic made public....
...The Green Road, by Anne Enright, Cape, RRP£16.99/WW Norton, RRP$26.95 Like The Gathering, Enright’s 2007 Booker winner, The Green Road centres on a family reunion....
...Public Library and Other Stories, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99, 240 pages Letter in response to this review Just believe that libraries can change lives / From Anne Hannaford...
...She is part Fanny Price — the heroine of Mansfield Park who keeps her thoughts to herself — and part Anne Elliot, the equally introverted, dutiful observer and listener from Persuasion....
...Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, Bruce Sewell, general counsel, Bob Mansfield, head of technologies, and Jeff Williams, in charge of operations, all received the same restricted stock...
...Originally delivered as a series of lectures by Smith at St Anne’s College, Oxford, Artful is structured around a fictional conceit that – as the title might suggest – is both stylish and a little tricksy...
...When Anne in Anne of Green Gables smashes a slate over Gilbert Blythe’s head on her first day at school because he calls her “carrots”, I was more than proud....
...“We had a civil service in the town hall and then went to the St Anne chapel for a religious ceremony. The press were everywhere. It was an experience never to be forgotten.”...
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