Dear gang, ... Thanks, Matthieu! ... I shall be collecting my copies from my parents' house over the festive season. I also have an illustrated ' Sophy of...
In a previous message, I talked about the article by Quiller-Couch about Anthony Hope. I am surprised nobody never talk about this interesting writer and...
No, I can't say that I've ever heard of Quiller-Couch! I just checked Project Gutenberg, and it seems that The Splendid Spur is scheduled to be added to the...
Yes, generally libraries have books by Quiller-Couch, but most of these books are studies on literature (Shakespeare, Milton, etc.). If the novels by...
Dear Matthieu and Chris, ... Yes, I have encountered 'Q'... I have the edition of 'St. Ives' which he completd, although it's worth reading the edition with...
Hello, Can someone send me some references of critical studies on the baroness Orczy? I tried to find some, but found nothing, even chapters in books on...
Hello, Just a word to tell all the people who were interested in Emilio Salgari novels that the first english edition of his book has just been isseud (in...
... Cool, thanks for letting us know! ... I'm afraid I don't. I did try to search a few university library databases, including Oxford and Cambridge, and...
Hi all, Over the course of a couple of recent trips to Montreal, I found a nice hardcover copy of Scaramouche from the 40s or 50s, and read it while travelling...
Dear Matthieu, ... I was surprised to find that not even Margery Fisher's fairly comprehensive 'The Bright Face of Danger' lists her! There is, however, a...
... I'd definitely recommend Citizens by Simon Schama (of The History of Britain TV series fame). It's very readable and quite good. I highly recommend it. ...
Hello, there is something interesting in the treatment of French Revolution in british swashbucklings of the beginning of the XXth century. Their vision of...
Hi! Yes, I would agree that in terms of modern non-fiction, Simon Schama is excellent. In modern fiction, Hilary Mantel's 'A Place of Greater Safety' is worth...
You are always told very simply in schools that the French Revolution etc. terrifed the monarchies. It's easy to see why British fiction would represent the...
That is true ! "Terror" deserves its name ! ... But the specificity of the swashbuckling interpretation of French Revolution is that with this subject, they...
Just delurking briefly (I just picked up Scaramouche myself!) ... Try Simon Schama's CITIZENS. ... I haven't seen it in years, but it's generally regarded as...
Actually, I think you'll find that the most widely-accepted view of the French Revolution in British fiction was that promulgated by Dickens in 'A Tale of Two...
Another issue is that, for various reasons, writers explicitly on the Left have not generally taken on the adventure genre - honourable exceptions being Victor...
Yes, you are absolutely right in the idea that there is a gap between leftist ideas and historical romance. For Martin Green ("Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of...
I just picked up a copy of 'Pictureshow: Classic Movie Posters from the TCM Archives' - large format paperback, full colour, publ. by Chronicle Books. It has...
I have added some more material on film versions of 'The Prisoner of Zenda' to the Ruritanian Resistance section of my site. My IMDb review of the awful 1988...
Just a few thoughts re: women in swashbuckling fiction. I was initially thinking of Sabatini, having recently re-read 'Scaramouche', but more widely, I've...
I finished reading Weyman's Irish adventure story "The Wild Geese" today (found it in the university library) and initially had hopes for the high-spirited...
I think in modern films, the best is the eponymous heroine of 'La Fille de D'Artagnan', played by Sophie Marceau, not least because she also has a sense of...
Although they are initially set up as stereotypes and don't have the freedom in the narrative to escape their alloted functions, I find Hope's female...
Have added more images from the 1922, 1937 and 1952 film versions of 'PofZ' to my website... http://www.silverwhistle.co.uk/ruritania/films.html love, Doc M...
Lets hope that with the great success of Pirates of The Caribbean some imaginative film producer will make a film about the exciting lives of the real women...
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:35:05 -0000, Arthur ... Has it really? I thought they had been treated in films - maybe in a Captain Kidd picture? Chris -- Chris...
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