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Nine Writers who changed my life: English tutoring Manchester and Bolton
Reading can be a sneaky business. Even now, I still get told, come on let’s DO something sometimes when I am ‘caught’ reading, as if reading is somehow a squandering of time without any proper focus or purpose, an indulgence whilst others concentrate on more important things. This furtive, private quality to reading and perhaps [...]
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Tusi-bites with Alison Ridyard: Katherine Mansfield’ The Doll’s House.
I have read The Doll’s house. It’s one of my favourites. I love its timelessness – haven’t we all been told of children we aren’t to play with because of their less than desirable family background? – I know I have – and felt guilty too … and sad for the children who suffer because [...]
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Bolton School Entrance Examination Tip Five: Create a Villain!
Everyone has a taste for villainy in fiction or films. Even good characters have flaws or imperfections so that they do not seem too far away from us. Shakespeare gave his tragic heroes, ‘tragic flaws’. These flaws lead each hero inevitably to their own fated downfall and yet these flaws also serve to remind us of [...]
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D H Lawrence’s Odour of Chrysanthemums by Cath Corri!
The small locomotive engine, Number 4, came clanking, stumbling down from Selston with seven full waggons. It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed, but the colt that it startled from among the gorse, which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon, outdistanced it at a canter. A woman, walking up the railway [...]
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Cath Corri:Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
WANDERING THROUGH (mothering) – WUTHERING HEIGHTS! It has only just struck me, that if writing is inevitably about life/lives and living – the birth of the novelist, historical documentation and physical/emotional experience then of course the written is always, without a doubt, about death. Meandering through Wuthering Heights I recall a phrase that reminded me [...]
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Cath Corri: Beloved by Toni Morrison
NOvel is about more than a haunting. Beloved enters the narrative as a fully grown woman , but in fact is a pre-mature child (murdered by her mother to be saved from slavery). She is larger than life, disruptive and chaotic – a symbol of history being re-written (hence sentences structures being ‘unreadable’). Beloved has [...]
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