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Today is the feast of St Brigid and for the first time Ireland is honouring their matron saint with a public holiday. The Prankqueans will be celebrating all things Celtic and female this Saturday with 'Brigid of the Waves'. HerstoryIreland MFW

JAMES JOYCE: A LIFE now available for pre-order: scholarly.info/book/james-joy…
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Elizabeth was aged 5 in this photo, therefore taken in 1871, a year after the family migrated from Sydney to London. She would go on to write 21 books,many of them best-selling as well as critically acclaimed.She deserves a blue plaque! Heritage NSW

Elizabeth and the 'April, May and June babies'. 'Luckily the stork didn't bring any more babies after the June one, or I don't know what would have happened. How could you call a baby February, for instance?' From 'The April Baby's Book of Tunes' (1900).

In Poland, near Elizabeth's home in what was formerly Pomerania, there are two statues of the author. I would settle for one in Sydney, or even just a blue plaque!

Noam Chomsky references the continuing relevance of my father's book 'Taking the Risk out of Democracy' in this interview. bostonreview.net/articles/the-p… Johann Hari David Chau Bernard Lane Noam Chomsky #DavidBarsamian Boston Review Osman Faruqi @heckelfonic

Perfect timing! My longed- for copy of Elizabeth's 'In the Mountains' (1920) turned up today! Thank you World of Rare Books. World of Rare Books

Elizabeth's novel,'The Enchanted April', about four women holidaying in Italy, was published #OTD 100 years ago, Oct 31st, 1922. 'She was permeated beyond altering by the atmosphere, .. If one may say so . . she had found her celestial legs.’

'Loose talk about husbands had never in Mrs Fisher's circle been encouraged...husbands were taken seriously as the only real obstacles to sin.'

A scene from the 1992 film adaptation of Elizabeth's 'The Enchanted April' (produced by Harvey Weinstein), a much truer-to-the text version than the 1935.
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Join us this Sunday night in #Sydney for a #Samhain #poetry #music #song #event at The Gaelic Club Level 1, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills to celebrate the #Irish #FestivalOfTheDead ! Prankqueans Dr Áine de Paor Gabrielle Carey Cliona Molins Dr Sonnet
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Just as charming as the 1992 film, the 1935 black and white film adaptation of the The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim can be seen here: ok.ru/video/29505650… The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society The Middlebrow Network

View from Kirribilli, Sydney, where Elizabeth von Arnim was born and spent her first three years. 'I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for if I had I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.'

The Prankqueans invite you to a free event tonight celebrating Samhain with music, song, poetry and storytelling. Dixon Room, State Library of NSW, 6.30pm. I will be giving a short talk about James Joyce's story 'Clay', set on All Hallows Eve. James Joyce Gazette

The protagonist in the 1941 film version,unlike the novel, is almost completely unlikeable. Hollywood misogony/dislike of strong female protagonists? The Middlebrow Network Neglected Books The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society Read More Women

Elizabeth's last novel, Mr Skeffington, published a year before she died, was produced as a film starring Bette Davis and is almost completely devoid of the novel's humour.
Mr. Skeffington Trailer 1944 youtu.be/ahvE9V7uzI8 via YouTube