An Independent Woman Before Her Time: Hindle Wakes* *The title’s double entendre refers both to social awakening in the Lancashire town of Hindle and to “Wakes Week,” the seven to ten [...] January 19, 2018
The Grave Diggers’s Lullaby – A Crackerjack Tale of Survival Though time and place are undetermined, we’re on familiar terrain. The shack is poor by any standard: a basin serves as sink, there’s [...] March 11, 2017
She Stoops To Conquer – (And Does) Playwright Oliver Goldsmith overcame ugliness, lack of breeding, and alcoholic behavior (or sidestepped it) to become a successful writer [...] October 28, 2016
Widowers’ Houses – An 1800s Moral Quandary That Resonates Still People who live in glass houses have no right to throw stones. But, on my honor, I never knew that my house was a glass one until you [...] March 19, 2016