My dream job has been announced on Instagram. The Charles Dickens Museum is hiring!We're delighted to announce this rare opportunity to join our museum as a curator. Working to maintain the museum as a high-profile heritage site, you'll develop visitor-facing programs including displays and exhibitions, as well as undertaking key aspects of collections management and…

Thornfield Hall | A Book Blog

06.03.2025

Physical Appearance in Charlotte Bronte’s “Villette” – Thornfield Hall

Charlotte Bronte’s most popular novel is Jane Eyre, but Villette is by far her most complex, and my favorite. This near-psychedelic maze of a novel charts the narrator Lucy’s survival in a foreign country, her challenges as a working woman, and the price of solitude – illness, hallucinations, and mental breakdown - when she lives…

Thornfield Hall | A Book Blog

09.03.2025

An Italian Predecessor of “The Group” & the Threat of the Algorithm in a Women’s Prize-longlisted Novel – Thornfield Hall

Version 1.0.0 Fans of the Italian writer Alba de Cespedes (1911-1997), the author of Forbidden Notebook, will love her first novel, There’s No Turning Back. It reminds me of Mary McCarthy’s The Group: both tell the stories of eight women who are friends in their university days. There’s No Turning Back was published in 1938…

Thornfield Hall | A Book Blog

10.03.2025

Radical Feminism vs. Cancel Culture – Thornfield Hall

One day in the 1970s, I sat in a crowded auditorium at the Student Union. Although there were a few men, the audience was primarily women. Everyone was restless and excited. We were there to see Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique. This feminist text was my introduction to feminism. And why isn’t Betty…

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The Ziplock Dickens – Thornfield Hall

Physical Appearance in Charlotte Bronte’s “Villette” – Thornfield Hall

An Italian Predecessor of “The Group” & the Threat of the Algorithm in a Women’s Prize-longlisted Novel – Thornfield Hall

Radical Feminism vs. Cancel Culture – Thornfield Hall

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