Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Books
‘The Gadfly,’ an Irishwoman’s novel of revolutionaries: Remembering Ethel Voynich
July 24, 2020What was this book, so widely read by Republicans in Ireland and the Labour movement in Britain in its own day?
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Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
June 8, 2020Dickens never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts and that the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a blackening...
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‘Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’: British author exposes Great Money Trick of capitalism
April 22, 2020Working-class readers have widely embraced the novel as an important text about their experience, written from their own point of view.
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Culture
Raphael, Italian painter and architect, High Renaissance harbinger of modernity
April 3, 2020The great Italian painter and architect, Raphael, died 500 years ago, on April 6, 1520.
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Culture
On her 80th birthday: Margaret Atwood points the way toward a new humanity
November 18, 2019Margaret Atwood has written several novels that explore dystopian situations or circumstances where people are subjected to control and violence.
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‘Walk with Gandhi’ on the 150th anniversary of his birth
October 8, 2019This book is a gleaming, wonderfully enriching pleasure in terms of aesthetic appreciation and engaging the mind.
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Culture
Rembrandt: His times and his art on the 350th anniversary of his death
October 3, 2019Rembrandt anticipated a democratic culture that was yet to come. He was the first to place modern knowledge, understanding, and therefore doubt, at the center of his art.
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Arts
Peasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter
September 5, 2019His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.
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