A grab bag - sometimes funny, sometimes sly. If you didn't know that Brontë is a 'patriotic' re-rendering of Irish surname Prunty, or why we say Shavian, Bellovian etc. but we have no adjective for Jane Austen, and these things interest you, then this is a place to spend a little while. Sutherlan...
Phineas Finn: The Irish Member isn't about an Irish penis.Rather, it is about a young Irish gentleman who who gets himself elected to the British House of Commons and the manner that he navigates through the very exciting legislative time period surrouding the Second Reform Bill! I bet I had you...
No, this book is not about the Scottish liquor, Armadale. If you think it is you should probably just leave through the same door from whence you came.I just spent a considerable amount of time reading, rating, and reviewing a stupidly complex work of "pseudo"philosophy and my brain is about fri...
I read this in my freshman year of college, and it was a pleasure to go back to it again. Here are four portraits of leading figures of Victorian England: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Charles Gordon. Manning was the leader of England's Catholics, Ni...
Mrs Humphry Ward 1851–1920 If only there were more respectable geniuses. Mrs Ward complaining about ubiquitous literary immorality to her son, Arnold A quiz: 1. Which novelist stopped British women getting the vote for ten years? 2. Which British novelist pioneered the children’s play centre sy...
PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT The book you are holding in your hand at the moment is not a work of literature, but let's take it as a handy example. I wrote it. My name is there on the title page, and in the copyright line. So it's ‘my’ (John Sutherland's) book. Does that mean, though, that ...