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My book about Irene Mawer has been written for some time. The book is finished. So why isn’t it published? The reason is complicatedly simple – copyright. I always knew that I would need to deal with copyright, but I had innocently assumed it would be straight forward, and mainly
Continue readingDo you believe in writer’s block? I don’t know whether or not Miss Mawer believed in it, but she did believe that emotions can block creativity. Writers block is one of those nebulous, difficult to define things. Does it even really exist? Certainly, during this last summer, I was unable
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How did Miss Mawer write? I mean, physically? Where did she write, and what did she use? In 1929 Virginia Woolf said that for a woman to write, she needed her own money and her own room. I think she was talking about fiction, but in this blog post, I
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I wonder if any of the Ginner-Mawer Dancers mimed playing the musical instruments used in ancient Greece? The students would mime the ancient weapons used by Greek warriors, so I would expect that they also mimed the playing of musical instruments. Two famous stringed instruments of ancient Greece are the
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