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The Kiss On The Train Platform: Gaskell’s North and South

The Kiss On The Train Platform: Gaskell’s North and South

by evyjourney | posted in: Love, life, small things | 9

Thornton lifts Margaret’s bowed head gently and with great tenderness, touches his lips to hers. But that’s just how it begins. He kisses her a little more insistently. Not once more, but a few times more. She doesn’t pull back, … Continued

Daniela Denby-Ashe, John Thornton, kiss on train platform, Margaret Hale, most romantic ending, North and South, Victorian romance
Feminism in Victorian Novels: Gaskell’s North and South

Feminism in Victorian Novels: Gaskell’s North and South

by evyjourney | posted in: Blog, Love, life, small things | 5

Feminism in Victorian Novels? Impossible. Not when the status of women placed them just a bit above spoiled children. But I found Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and realized it wasn’t so. I had never heard of Ms. Gaskell until … Continued

Barbara Bodichon, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Elizabeth Gaskell, feminist heroines, Margaret Hale, North and South

Art, Travel, Other Tasty Morsels: Artsy Rambler

Budapest—Grunge and Grandeur

Budapest—Grunge and Grandeur

Budapest has drama. It’s monumental—in a grungy sort of way. But maybe we felt that way when we visited it because the summer weather was so hot and humid that the requisite sightseeing became a miserable chore. Budapest, the confluence of royal and proletarian legacies in a country of only ten million inhabitants, seems to […]

Strasbourg, French-German Fusion Alsatian City

Strasbourg, French-German Fusion Alsatian City

Fusion of French and German cultures has been at the core of being a Strasbourgeois. That is what a Strasbourgeois would tell you―the cab drivers, merchants, and museum ‘gardiens,’ for instance. They embrace the idea as the way things naturally are. This blended identity of the Strasbourgeois may defy attempts to resolve the question of […]

Obecni Dum, Prague’s Unheralded Treasure

Obecni Dum, Prague’s Unheralded Treasure

Prague has a real treasure “hidden” from most tourist groups herded into the city for a day or three. The current entry on Prague in Wikipedia doesn’t mention it. And, though it’s listed as a top attraction, Lonely Planet does not showcase it as a highlight to a Prague visit. Regrettable, I’d say. Especially if […]

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