I first met Katherine Mansfield in a hut. Every Friday in the Upper Sixth form we would read a short story from a battered collection extracted from the English book… Read More »English Tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury: Katherine Mansfield’s enduring love.
She first saw him one Sunday afternoon amongst her magnolias. She had finished with the paper and was sitting as neatly as she could (angles were important to her) in… Read More »English Tuition Manchester and Bolton: The Roman Centurion-Janet Lewison
I love Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black. It’s a delayed text. In a crucial way its delay relates to grief, to the process of mourning itself where the teller is very reluctant to… Read More »GCSE English: Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black meets James Bond’s Goldeneye!
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, and did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with… Read More »Robert Browning- Porphyria’s Lover analysis (GCE): A Masquerade of Spontaneous murder?
‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came’ The Dark Tower has fascinated readers for centuries. Writers from Shakespeare in King Lear, to Browning in Childe Roland; Alan Garner in Elidor… Read More »GCSE English Merlin review- What’s Morgana’s secret game?
Ferrara That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and… Read More »Browning’s My Last Duchess Analysis: Three ideas to fire your essay! (|Part One)
My love of James Bond is firmly anchored to my childhood. The era of the double film bill. Marple’s Odeon Cinema. The primary school party if you were lucky enough to be invited. I… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton and Manchester: ”Skyfall” Review-James Bond Resurrected!
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