Feasts and Festivals
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Andrew Marvell
Devilled chicken
John Donne
Lawrence Sterne
Patience Gray
Pervigillum Veneris
Quail
The Birth of Venus
Tristram Shandy
Clubland Cooking
Archive
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
"Clothing the dry bones of history with flesh and blood..."
Florence White and the English Folk Cookery Association
Nov 27
•
Liz Gwedhan
24
15
8
From Jane Austen to Downton Abbey - too many daughters.
How women's disinheritance drives plot lines
Nov 20
•
Liz Gwedhan
54
20
14
Desert Island Discs - the books.
What books Desert Island Disc castaways choose - and what that might say about them.
Nov 13
•
Liz Gwedhan
26
16
7
Bugles from sad shires..
Thoughts on Adelstrop.
Nov 6
•
Liz Gwedhan
41
26
10
October 2025
My Psychic Mama
and poetic thoughts on the season...
Oct 30
•
Liz Gwedhan
35
8
6
The DNA of your reading life.
What do your books mean to you?
Oct 23
•
Liz Gwedhan
91
27
23
Women in the Driving Seat
Going motoring with Edith and Virgina (and others)
Oct 16
•
Liz Gwedhan
23
6
6
The Mindful Mollusc
"I tasted the salty Pleiades..."
Oct 9
•
Liz Gwedhan
24
14
11
September 2025
A blow to the culture of deference...
"A window has been opened and blown fresh air through England" **
Sep 25
•
Liz Gwedhan
69
16
14
The Champions of Lady Chatterley
and her detractors...(Part One)
Sep 18
•
Liz Gwedhan
38
7
11
Liaisons in Illyria
Literary visits to Albania
Sep 11
•
Liz Gwedhan
36
14
13
Love, War and Will Making
A true story
Sep 4
•
Liz Gwedhan
41
5
6
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts