Happy (Belated) Birthday, Edith Wharton
The Mount is celebrating Edith Wharton's 151st birthday today. Wharton was born in chilly January, on the 24th, in 1862, in New York City. She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, with The Age...
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Infographic: Simpleton’s Guide to Pride & Prejudice
Happy 200th birthday, Pride & Prejudice. Instead of cake, we made you an infographic. Take that for a turn around the drawing room. The Pride & Prejudice poems, etc. (we surmise) A Red, Red...
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5 Amusing Pride and Prejudice Quotes: Wet Shirt Included
Editor's Note: Kimberlee Conway Ireton has a Pride and Prejudice sense of humor and an appreciation of, well, the finer things in Colin Firth. It seemed apt to share her sick-day musings and...
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Happy Birthday Mr. Darcy: A Pride And Prejudice Birthday Playlist
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Good people around the world are lighting the candles (200 candles? That's a bit of a fire hazzard!) and celebrating...
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10 Great Pride and Prejudice Resources
Ten great Pride and Prejudice Resources. Okay, some are just plain fun. But that's great too, no? 1. Write Like Jane Austen (the Jane Austen Thesaurus). Well, you might also need to take a writing...
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Top 10 YA and Children’s Books
Before we begin, I must declaim: the following Top 10 YA and children’s books list does not actually include the top 10 children’s novels. It doesn’t even contain my top 10 children’s books because I...
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Strolling through Watership Down: Richard Adams
When I was ten, my family and I moved to England, finding our place near a town called Newbury. The countryside was dreamy and idyllic with plenty of areas for a child to explore. The landscape was...
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Finding Edna and Winifred in the Antique Shop
I was in an antique shop, called Dappled Gray Antiques, in the downtown section of my suburb in St. Louis. The “dappled gray” came from a carousel horse in the window, and the shop was filled with...
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Happy (Belated) Birthday, Edith Wharton
The Mount is celebrating Edith Wharton’s 151st birthday today. Wharton was born in chilly January, on the 24th, in 1862, in New York City. She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, with The Age...
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Infographic: Simpleton’s Guide to Pride & Prejudice
Happy 200th birthday, Pride & Prejudice. Instead of cake, we made you an infographic. Take that for a turn around the drawing room. The Pride & Prejudice poems, etc. (we surmise) A Red, Red...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 Amusing Pride and Prejudice Quotes: Wet Shirt Included
Editor’s Note: Kimberlee Conway Ireton has a Pride and Prejudice sense of humor and an appreciation of, well, the finer things in Colin Firth. It seemed apt to share her sick-day musings and...
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Happy Birthday Mr. Darcy: A Pride And Prejudice Birthday Playlist
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. Good people around the world are lighting the candles (200 candles? That’s a bit of a fire hazard!) and celebrating...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 Great Pride and Prejudice Resources
Ten great Pride and Prejudice Resources. Okay, some are just plain fun. But that’s great too, no? 1. Write Like Jane Austen (the Jane Austen Thesaurus). Well, you might also need to take a writing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 10 YA and Children’s Books
Before we begin, I must declaim: the following Top 10 YA and children’s books list does not actually include the top 10 children’s novels. It doesn’t even contain my top 10 children’s books because I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Strolling through Watership Down: Richard Adams
When I was ten, my family and I moved to England, finding our place near a town called Newbury. The countryside was dreamy and idyllic with plenty of areas for a child to explore. The landscape was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Finding Edna and Winifred in the Antique Shop
I was in an antique shop, called Dappled Gray Antiques, in the downtown section of my suburb in St. Louis. The “dappled gray” came from a carousel horse in the window, and the shop was filled with...
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Poetic Asides: Norman Nicholson and Frank Stanford
One of the things I’ve learned from writing here at Tweetspeak Poetry is that, when it comes to poetry, the articles you write have a way of continuing to live. They may be reposted or republished on...
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“David Copperfield”: Why Charles Dickens Has Endured
In high school, I studied three assigned novels by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). In ninth grade, our English class read Great Expectations. In tenth grade, we studied A Tale of Two Cities. And in 12th...
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Reading in the Wild: October’s Pages
At Tweetspeak, books matter. We host a book club, we review books, and we publish them at T.S. Poetry Press. We’re dedicated to literacy — for life. And we want to learn from each other about reading...
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Reading in the Wild: January’s Pages
At Tweetspeak, books matter. We host a book club, we review books, and we publish them at TS Poetry Press. We’re dedicated to literacy — for life. And we want to learn from each other about reading in...
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