Tracy Kiely, “Murder at Longbourn: A Mystery”
Tracy Kiely’s Murder at Longbourn: A Mystery, a smart play on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, follows the trials and tribulations of Elizabeth Blake. When Elizabeth heads to the Inn at Longbourn to...
View ArticleJane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”
In early 19th-century England, unmarried women, especially those of the landed gentry on whom societal pressures were powerfully placed, had little options. For the girls of the Bennet family,...
View ArticleNora Roberts, “Homeport”
Miranda is one of the Maine Joneses, a moniker that carries with it responsibility and obligation and pride. As with many children of wealthy, well-established and successful families, Miranda was...
View ArticleNora Roberts, “The Witness”
A life spent on the run can be exhausting. To be constantly on alert, to have the unrelenting fear that someone is after you and wants to kill you, well, anyone would buckle under that pressure. Unless...
View ArticleArthur Miller, “The Crucible”
The mean girls of today, the Regina Georges and the queen bees, have an inordinate amount of power. All girls, especially teenage ones, have an unrelenting desire to fit in, to belong. That need can be...
View ArticleMary Shelley, “Frankenstein”
The nature versus nurture debate may be tired and old, but in the right context, couldn’t it be fascinating? Take the example of Frankenstein: he’s hideous, a monster who frightens small children and...
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