tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post3955511725095502274..comments2023-10-28T06:24:47.456-04:00Comments on Song of a Reformed Headhunter: Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth"Jee Leonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979179110231643931noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-3011960281309339642008-08-01T12:54:00.000-04:002008-08-01T12:54:00.000-04:00Hello!Great post!I think it is so important to kee...Hello!<BR/><BR/>Great post!<BR/><BR/>I think it is so important to keep the history of the great writers alive so people will appreciate the opportunities they have created for us..<BR/> <BR/>If you are interested in all of the twists and turns that played into women winning the vote way back when, you will find "The Privilege of Voting" fascinating.<BR/><BR/>I am the author of this new and exhaustively researched historical e-mail series that tells the stories of suffragettes.<BR/><BR/>This serialized novella goes behind the scenes in the lives of eight well-known women from 1912 to 1920 and reveals the sexy, shocking truth of HOW the suffragettes won the right to vote in England and America.<BR/><BR/>Presidents Roosevelt, Wilson and Harding are featured, and the women depicted include two presidential mistresses, Edith Wharton, Isadora Duncan, Alice Roosevelt, and two of the most beautiful and outspoken suffragettes, American Alice Paul and Brit Emmeline Pankhurst.<BR/><BR/>But this is no boring history report. The chronological series is written in a unique, fun short- story format called Coffeebreak Readers.<BR/><BR/>There are weddings and funerals, babies in peril, damsels in distress, war, peace, broken hearts and lots of hot extra-marital affairs! The best part is that it's ALL true!<BR/><BR/>Each action-packed episode takes about 10 minutes to read, so they are perfect to enjoy on coffeebreaks, or anytime.<BR/><BR/>You can subscribe to receive free twice-weekly e-mails at:<BR/><BR/>http://www.coffeebreakreaders.com/tpovpage.html<BR/><BR/>Best to you,<BR/><BR/>Virginia Harris<BR/>Series Author<BR/>Publisher<BR/>www.CoffeebreakReaders.comVirginia Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09724036765002243807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-75466558104713180472008-08-01T01:42:00.000-04:002008-08-01T01:42:00.000-04:00I suspect most artists locate the real in the idea...I suspect most artists locate the real in the ideal, and, in that respect, are Platonists. Some see the dangers in that view, many others don't. My remarks on Wharton may make me out to be a dialectical materialist, but I think, given my own sentimentality, my complaint is really that she is not sufficiently dialectical, rather than not sufficiently materialist (i.e. Marxist). I will add H.D.'s "Her" to my reading list. I should find time to go back to her poetry again.Jee Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01979179110231643931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-11100725096078728112008-07-31T15:23:00.000-04:002008-07-31T15:23:00.000-04:00Nicely put, the conclusion. I have just been re-re...Nicely put, the conclusion. I have just been re-reading H.D.'s "Her", who is sometimed paralleled to Wharton. But there is something the same in the novel. Hermione's lover is based on the aesthetic Ezra P and one question that arises is: How could he be sure that the perfect Hermione was the real natural Her, the Her who communes with trees and nature. <BR/>Ah, perfection is a deadly thing.A.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08716463684593767622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-14344108087924649652008-07-31T15:18:00.000-04:002008-07-31T15:18:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.A.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08716463684593767622noreply@blogger.com