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Showing posts with label daphne du maurier. Show all posts
9 Dec 2024

Cheirophilia: the Hands of Rachel Ashley

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Philip Ashley inspecting the delicate white hands  of his cousin Rachel by candlelight [a]    'There are some women [...] who through no...
5 Dec 2024

A Sprig of Holly: Notes on Gibbeting (with Reference to the Case of Tom Jenkyn)

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827): A Gibbet (detail)  Undated watercolor and ink on paper (36 x 27.5 cm) Yale Center for British Art     I...
22 Nov 2024

Just Do It: Notes on Incitement with Reference to the Case of Danvers Vs de Winter

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Joan Fontaine as Mrs de Winter and Judith Anderson  as Mrs Danvers in Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) [a]     I.    As a provocateur, I'...
19 Nov 2024

Memories of Manderley 2: On Pyrexia and Obsessive Love Disorder

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Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson) displays the see-through nature  of Rebecca's nightdress to the new Mrs de Winter (Joan Fontaine)  in Rebe...
18 Nov 2024

Memories of Manderley 1: On Natural Chaos and Maxim de Winter's Floraphilia

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Top: Manderley in ruins (chaos reigns) Bottom: Maxim de Winter (uxoricide and floraphile)     I.    Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley ...
2 Sept 2024

Bad Penny

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Penny Slinger: Exorcism: Inside Out Richard Saltoun Gallery (London)   I.    Sometimes, we need an artist to turn up like the proverbial ba...
28 Dec 2023

What Was I Thinking? (28 December)

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  Torpedo the Ark: images from posts published on  28 December (2013-2021)   Sometimes, it's interesting to look back and see what one w...
10 Oct 2023

It's Creepy and It's Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky: Notes on Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie (Part 2)

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Mark Fisher (1968-2017) author of  The Weird and the Eerie (2016)     I.  Fisher's opening discussion of the eerie is perhaps my favo...