tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19766924.post114625614235964764..comments2007-02-14T22:27:49.292-05:00Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485477702193993859noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19766924.post-1146419337933931682006-04-30T13:48:00.000-04:002006-04-30T13:48:00.000-04:00Yes, great post; I've been hearing about this book for a while, must get hold of a copy and take a look. (I love that Gilmore "Shot in the Heart," I must have bought four or five copies of it over the years to give away to people--one of the things it's best on is the way that even when you're full siblings the family you're in is a different one due to the passage of time.) Also haven't read the Patchett (or Grealy's own memoir), but was looking at "Autobiography of a Face" the other day in the bookstore & wondering whether I should get it. <BR/><BR/>Let us talk more about the unfinished/fragment/gender questions next time we meet in person! Interesting. I've got some sociological theories about 19th-century British culture that lead to an account of why women were less likely to be drawn to the prestige of the fragment/traumatized artist than men: sources include the Bronte family but also the very interesting chapters in the opening of Susan Pedersen's biography of Eleanor Rathbone, take a look & you will see.Jenny Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19766924.post-1146357717508486602006-04-29T20:41:00.000-04:002006-04-29T20:41:00.000-04:00Hey Alice, this is a wonderful post. The Werther site reminded me of Richardson's prefaces and his own epistolary exchange with his readers. It seems like these truncated exchanges keep haunting us...<BR/>Hope all is well,<BR/>Adela (excuse my inarticulate post but I'm taking a break in-between pre-oral questions!)Xopohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16122617584867672112noreply@blogger.com