Mary C. M. Phillips

Roman Fever – Edith Wharton

January 18, 2014 by posted by Mary C. M. Phillips

For those of you planning to attend our Edith Wharton Tribute at the The Malverne Public Library on March 10th, please register here.

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

John B. Tamburello and I will be discussing four of Wharton’s books: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Ethan Frome.

In addition, we’ll be discussing one of Wharton’s most celebrated short stories, Roman Fever (you may want to consider reading it before March 10th, so you’ll be able to participate and thoroughly enjoy the discussion).

Here’s an online version of Roman Fever. Make sure you read it to the very end though.

You will not be disappointed.

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January 12, 2014 by posted by Mary C. M. Phillips

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200 Years of Mansfield Park!

January 1, 2014 by posted by Mary C. M. Phillips

Looking forward to this!

Sarah Emsley

“About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northamptonshire, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.”

The first sentence of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is nowhere near as famous as the first line of Pride and Prejudice. The heroine of Mansfield Park is nowhere near as beloved as Elizabeth Bennet. The novel is rarely chosen as anyone’s favourite Austen novel – I recently heard it described (by a Janeite who shall remain nameless!) as “my 6th favorite Austen.” But even though it doesn’t have the same kind of sparkle as Pride and Prejudice, it’s a complex, fascinating, brilliant book.