Secretalias666

Can anyone recommend some interesting blogs?

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They can be literary studies or philosophy based, or perhaps fictional or autobiographical. Just anything you find well written and engaging!

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Many thanks.

I ended my marriage in September 2016. The deadbedroom situation was deteriorating and my husband let it slide into the unfixable. When we split up, it had been nine months since we had sex. My husband moved out two weeks later and slept with another woman that night.

It was Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, before I managed to find a sexual connection with someone, and we had sex up a hill, in the car, in the rain, and it was lovely. Was it the start of something? No, it was not. But still.

My husband and I worked on a friendship, and our relationship evolved and changed. It became something different, and valuable. Something I am grateful for. The good parts remained. The love endur

Hi there,

I’m sure I read somewhere that Wilde was criticised for the similarity of his characters, and certainly, Jack and Algy seem virtually interchangeable. Has Wilde been criticised for the similarity of these two characters in either reviews or literary criticism?

Many thanks!

Hi there,

I’m looking for critical writing on different representations and types of Victorian masculinity, and ways in which different ‘types’ of masculinity either uphold or subvert gender roles. (Such as ‘dandyism’ and effeminate behaviour). Everything I find links the behaviour to sexuality, either homosexual or herteromormative.

I’m looking for something that maybe links it more to class, or domestic, working and leisure spheres?

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

Looking for something interesting! Also kind of wondering if there is an opening for a close reading blog of some kind.