During two research trips to Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte is Pascoe's account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights, including varied and surprising adaptations of the novel.
During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In lively and engaging prose Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.
"This book is... a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history.... It...
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