Gallery of Blog Pictures 4

Gentle Reader,

On this page you will find the images Ellen has put on her blog from January 2009 to the present:

1) Oxford & London, Jan '08: Climate & food, museums, and music


7, St Michael's Street, Steward's house, Oxford union, drawing room window, night


7, St Michael's Street, Steward's house, seen from outside


7, St Michael's Street, Steward's house, Oxford union, drawing room window, summer?


First 5 students at St Hugh's college: Miss Charlotte Anne Moberly, daughter of George Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury. The first four students were Charlotte Jourdain, Constance Ashburner, Grace Parsons and Jessie Emmerson, joined a term later by Wilhelmina Jane de Lona Mitchell.


43 Cloth Fair, Smithfield, drawing room


St Bartholomew and hospital seen from window of Cloth Fair, city of London


Nicole Kidman by Annie Lebowitz


Wigmore Hall, foyer


J.M.W. Turner, Colchester, Essex


Claude Monet, Autumn at Argenteuil


Savoy Theatre, outside


Hugh Golden Riviere (1869-1956), Garden of Eden

2) BSECS Jan '09: Life-writing and records of existences, 1/20, 1/24

Pete Seeger, age 89, singing "This land is my land," with Bruce Springstein and his grandson on either side of him


Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800) after portrait by Joshua Reynolds


Box made by Montagu of four friends


Anna Barbauld (1743-1825)

Anna Barbauld (1743-1825) attributed to Richard Cosway


BroadviewAnnaBarbauld's poetry and prose, Broadview Press edition


18th century picturesque print of Grongar Hill


Lovelace about to rape Clarissa, from the Folio Society edition by Simon Brett

Illustration of incident where Harriet Byron abducted in Grandison


Valancourt Press Gaston de Blondeville


Daniel Edwards's 2006 bust of Hillary Clinton


A popular memoir of Anglo-India in the womens' memoir writing mode


Francois Boucher (1703-70), The Water Mill (1750s)

3) Laughing with cats, breakfast with cats and new plan

Isabel and Ian


Isabel and Ian, second shot


Ellen and Clary


Ellen and Clary, in the tradition of Austen


early fall 1980: Jim, me, my father, Laura by the Hudson River


summer 1980: Jim, me, Laura at Shorehaven (now bulldozed and a development built there)

4) A few books & movies to be getting on with: mostly Clarissa, The Children's Hour, The Women, Revolutionary Road

Promotional photo, Clarissa


Shirley MacLaine, 1960s, Children's Hour


Sally Hawkins, 2009, Happy go Lucky


Mary Boland, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, 1939 The Women


Meg Ryan, Candace Bergen, 2009 the Women


Serena Gordon as Caroline Lennox, remembering, 1999 Aristocrats


Kate Winslett, Leonardo DiCaprio, 2009, Revolutionary Road


Kate Winslett, Ralph Fiennes, 2009, The Reader

5) Last Chance Harvey: an exquisitely moving long walk

Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009, Last Chance, Harvey


Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, 2009 (not in film itself, Last Chance, Harvey

6) Poery and foremother poet postings, pictures and groupsite stills

A masquerade at Haymarket, King's Street, by Grisoni, mid-18th century


David Cox, Sun, Wind, and Rain, mid-19th century


David Cox, Calais Pier, 1837


From Jane Campion's Piano


From Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road, based on Betty Jeffrey's White Coolies and documentary sources

9) 1883 Was a Very Good Year

Franz Liszt by Beckmann, 1882

10) In Defense of Edmund Bertram, Vampire Jane Harlequins, & Agney Grey

Julia Roberts as Mary Reilly, from the film


Woman servants, 1890s, from book Mary Reilly


John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93), Tree Shadows on the Park Wall, Roundhay Park Leeds 1872

11) Kate Winslett and womens' plays and films

Kate Winslett outside auditorium


Kate Winslett as Hannah in The Reader


Another of Kate Winslett as Hannah in The Reader


Wendy and her dog Lucy


Recent novella by Lessing


women as group in Sex and the City


Sean Bean as Lovelace, the mean promsicuous male

12) Mentoring

Nell Blaine (1922-96), November Snow, 1987


Jane Freilicher, Casement Windows, 1974

13) Milos Forman's Valmont v Stephen Frears's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Colin Firth as Valmont, Valmont, 1989


Annette Benning as Madame de Merteuil, Valmont, 1989


Meg Tilly as Madame de Tourville Valmont, 1989


Valmont dictates to Cecile Valmont, 1989


Danceny shocked at behavior during duel Valmont, 1989


Sian Phillips as Madame de Volanges Valmont, 1989


Like Clarissa at the close of Clarissa 1991, so Valmont dead and in hisgrave at the clso of Valmont, 1989


John Malkovich as Valmont and Glenn Close as Madame de Merteuil, Dangereus Liaisons, 1989


John Malkovich as Valmont and Glenn Close as Madame de Merteuil, Dangereus Liaisons, 1989


Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame de Tourville, Dangereus Liaisons, 1989

14) Diary entry: the season, books & papers, relocating

Clary curious, Henrietta pussycat


Ian puzzled, close up


Jill's birdhouse


Our fence through my study window


What Izzy sees


From Stars on Ice


Saskia Wickham as the dying Clarissa


Inge Morath, "Pushkin country, Onegin's bench"

15) The Politics of Biography Brought Back: Jane Austen books battling

Claire Harman's Fanny Burney


Claire Harman's Jane's Fame


Kathryn Sutherland's editioh of family biographies of Austen


Kathryn Sutherland's Textual Lives

16) Chekhov's 3 Sisters, Uncle Vanya and NYC

Set of the film Vanya on 42nd Street


Brooke Smith in Vanya on 42nd Street


Julianne Moore as Yelena in Vanya on 42nd Street


Wallace Shawn as Uncle Vanya in Vanya on 42nd Street

17) "'How you all must have laughed. Such a witty masquerade': Clarissa 1991:

Clarissa tells Lovelace she wants him to leave her and it's no business of his where she goes


Lovelace extracts from Clarissa a promise she'll forgive him for forcing sex on her


Lovelace listens to Clarissa say he is truly beneath contempt

18) At the National Museum of Women's Art: poetry, pictures, plays; at the movies: Jeffers and Holly's Sunshine Cleaning

Alexandria, Cherry blossoms in the twilight


Sunshine Cleaning (2009)


Sunshine Cleaning (2009)


Sunshine Cleaning (2009)


Sarah Bernhardt, After the Storm


Kata Sugar, Girl Herding Geese

18) Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, 2003

Meena (Sarita Choudhury) and Demetrius (Denzel Washington)


Jay (Seth Roshan), Kinnu (Sharmila Tagore) and young Meena (Sahita Nair) leaving Uganda

19) ASECS, Richmond: The 18th century on film

Albert Finney as Tom leading the charge


Breillat's Une Vieille Maistresse


Keira Knightley as Cecilia, Atonement


Patrice Leconte's Ridicule


Paulette Goddard as Kitty in Kitty


Anna Goldin by Gertrud Pinkus


Tom and Molly from Richardson's Tom Jones

20) ASECS, Richmond: women writers

Oxford cover of Mysteries of Udolpho


Siege of Mainz, 1793 contemporary painting


Siege of Mainz, 1793 map


Farleigh Hungerford Castle Crypt


Farleigh Hungerford Castle Gate


Wife abuse in 18th century France


Dora Jordan as Rosalind by Hoppner


Elizabeth Farren by Thomas Lawrence


Sarah Siddons by Gainsborough, 1785


Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, 1797

21) ASECS, Richmond: Top books & authors; poetry & pictures

Watteau, Plaisirs du Bal


Simon Brett, illustration of rape of Clarissa


Simon Brett, illustration of duel in Clarissa


The older Diderot


Pope by Hoare


Ignatius Sancho by Gainsborough


Mary and Edmund practicing parts before Fanny


Mr Yates caught declaiming by Sir Thomas


French theatre scene, Watteau


Embarkation to Cythera, Watteau


Landscape as stage, 1979 BBC P&P


Intimate scene, 1979 BBC P&P


Landscape as Stage, 1988 Les Liaisons Dangereuses


Rowlandson, group of figures


Rowlandson, a furniture auction


Rowlandson, at the bookseller


A landscape by Gainsborough

22) Spring journal, a few novels & memoirs to be getting on with ...

Helen Allingham, Tig Bridge


Edward Hayley, The Rotunda at Beachborough House, Kent

23) In which I turn a page and like a crab go backwards

Louis Ducros and Giovanni Volpato, View of the Temple of the Sybil, Tivoli

24) Women Poets: seeing ourselves through our predecessors

Vanessa Bell


Fanny Churberg, Winter Landscape, 1880

25) Quarter Century Mark: Stoppard's Arcadia and Rossini's Centerentola

Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego


Stoppard's Arcadia, traditional set


Stoppard's Arcadia, Hodge and Thomasina


Stoppard's Arcadia, Folger promotional shot


Rossini's Cenerentola, heroine and clown


Rossini's Cenerentola, heroine and prince


Rossini's Cenerentola, final set, Metropolitan Opera, 2009


Flowers from Jim for mother's day


Me reading McCarthy's book on Barbauld

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