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Orchestra pit, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

A doughty psychopomp

Martha Wells: Emilie & the Hollow World Strange Chemistry 2013 Having run away from her straitlaced relatives orphan stowaway Emilie has found that she is not on the conventional steamship she expected; instead she finds the vessel under attack, a gentleman who is part scales and part fur, and a totally unconventional voyage that takes […]

Many a quaint craft

You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I know;—square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod. She was a ship of the old school… I’ve been in […]

The firebird flies again

E Nesbit: The Phoenix and the Carpet Puffin Books 1994 (1904) The common advice to would-be fiction authors is to “write about what you know”. A phoenix and a flying carpet aren’t of course really within one’s everyday experience, but at heart the events that take place and many of this fantasy’s settings are taken […]

Jane’s relations

As promised, I’m continuing my appreciation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre with further discussions, based on aspects of the novel I’ve not noted mentioned elsewhere or viewed quite as aslant. This post aims to examine Jane Eyre’s relations. I use the term ‘relations’ in a couple of principal senses here: first, in terms of humans […]

Upright people and witches

John Masefield: The Midnight Folk Mammoth 2000 (1927) “You must be the master in your own house. Don’t let a witch take the charge of Seekings. This is a house where upright people have lived. Let’s have no Endorings nor Jezebellings in Seekings.” — Grandmamma Harker’s message to Kay. In 1885 orphan Kay Harker finds […]

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