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Ann Herendeen

Queering the romance, from Phyllida to Jane Austen--and beyond 

From Phyllida's Desk

Fay Weldon's Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

November 11, 2012
Tags: jane austen, fay weldon, reading, writing, fiction, women, feminism
Letters to Alice on first reading Jane AustenLetters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"Alice" is a fictional character, the author, Fay Weldon, signs her letters to this nonexistent niece "your aunt Fay" and most of the book reads more like essays than a novel. Sounds ghastly, right? It probably is if you read it at the wrong moment.

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The Monogamish Myth

September 29, 2012
Tags: monogamy, marriage, human evolution, Double Standard, sex roles, men, women
The panel that filled an entire 19th-century Episcopal church—pews and gallery, and sitting on the floor in the aisles—at last Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival was a discussion of monogamy. The panelists were excellent: Eric Klinenberg, sociologist and author of  Read More 
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