Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Book review: ‘The Accidental Garden’ by Richard Mabey
Gardens, wilderness and the space in between.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 24 • 1876 plus supplement (1838–1875)’
The final edition of ‘Origin’ • ‘The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom’ • backgammon victories • the death of a daughter-in-law • experiments with typewriters • and a whole lot more.
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Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 3 • 1925–30’
Virginia Woolf during her most productive period.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 23 • 1875’
Revising ‘The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants’ • Writing ‘Insectivorous Plants’ • Beginning research on ‘The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom’ • Getting involved in the vivisection debate • The death of Charles Lyell
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Suffolkation
A Suffolk pilgrimage.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 22 • 1874’
Revising ‘Coral Reefs’ and ‘The Descent of Man’, continuing work on insectivorous plants, and a second dispute with St George Jackson Mivart.
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Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2’
Virginia Woolf’s diaries for 1920–1924.
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Book review: ‘Cuddy’ by Benjamin Myers
Something akin to a multi-media experience, mixing poetry, prayer, play-script, journal entries, and prose.
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Rich Text newsletter No. 34: ‘Out-of-date before I’d written a word’
Seaweed science • landscape philosophy • the Anthropocene that isn’t • Fred Hoyle • Einstein in a hut • sword evolution • early medieval funerary rituals • spookily timely social media posts • and more…
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Book review: ‘The Fran Lebowitz Reader’
Humorous journalism.
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Book review: ‘Buried’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.