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  • An Australian Fairy Tale

    Lesley hates her name, and decides to change it at the first opportunity. The first opportunity comes when she gets a job as a Sales Assistant (Temporary) at FG Goode, Sydney’s most prestigious department store, and she transforms herself into… Continue reading

  • Sandwiches and Sphagnum Moss

    I downloaded this from Girlebooks, who got it from Project Gutenberg. I’m still catching up on Early 20th Century Authors (I always was a bit of a slow-coach) so I’ve just read The War-Workers, by EM Delafield. Published in 1918,… Continue reading

  • The Solitary Summer in July

    Well, it’s mid-way through July already, so I thought I’d take take a quick look at the month’s happenings in Elizabeth von Arnim’s wonderful The Solitary Summer, which has an unexpectedly serious note. In her first entry (for the first… Continue reading

  • A Crusader’s Penance for Killing his Wife

    Today’s Saturday Snapshot is a romantic tragedy. Once upon a time in the dim and distant past, a brave and devout knight bid farewell to his beautiful wife and joined a Crusade to the Holy Land. While he was away… Continue reading

  • A Whirlwind Weekend in Paris

    Weekend in Paris, by Robyn Sisman, may not be great literature, and it may be fluffy, but it is great fun, very enjoyable and, best of all, it’s about Paris! And therein lies its strength, because it really does conjure… Continue reading