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Noticias de series de la semana

Renovaciones

Starz ha renovado Outlander por una séptima temporada

FX ha renovado Fargo por una quinta temporada

BBC One ha renovado Bloodlands por una segunda temporada

Syfy ha renovado Resident Alien por una segunda temporada

Acorn TV ha renovado Queens of Mystery por una segunda temporada

BBC Three ha renovado In My Skin por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

La cuarta temporada de Killing Eve (BBC America) será la última

CBC ha cancelado Burden of Truth tras su cuarta temporada

Noticias cortas

La décima temporada de American Horror Story se titula 'Double Feature'.

Erik LaRay Harvey (Del Chance) y Demi Singleton (Margaret Johnson) serán regulares en la segunda temporada de Godfather of Harlem.

The Man Who Fell To Earth se muda de Paramount+ a Showtime.

Tom Budge ha abandonado The Lord of the Rings. Amazon decidió seguir otra dirección con su personaje.

CBS ha dado más tiempo a los productores de True Lies para desarrollar el proyecto ya fuera del ciclo de pilotos de este año.

Fichajes

Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) protagonizará y producirá Beacon 23. Será Aster, una mujer que llega al faro del fin del universo conocido.

Tom Hiddleston (Loki, The Night Manager) protagonizará The Essex Serpent junto a Claire Danes. Será Will Ransome, el líder de una pequeña comunidad rural.

Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel, The Conjuring) protagonizará Five Days at Memorial. Interpretará a la doctora Anna Pou, que fue acusada por la muerte de varios pacientes.

Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Grand Budapest Hotel), John C. Reilly (Chicago, Talladega Nights), Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters, Forrest Gump), Michael Chiklis (The Shield, Gotham), Molly Gordon (Animal Kingdom, Booksmart), Jason Clarke (Catherine the Great, Zero Dark Thirty), Quincy Isaiah, Solomon Hughes, DeVaughn Nixon (Runaways, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), Delante Desouza, Rob Morgan (Stranger Things, This Is Us), Spencer Garrett (Bosch, For All Mankind), Kirk Bovill (Vice), Stephen Adly Guirgis (Vice, Russian Doll), Tamera Tomakili y Joey Brooks serán Pat Riley, entrenador de los Lakers; Jerry Buss, el dueño del equipo; Jessie Buss, la madre de Jerry Buss; Red Auerbach, entrenador de los Boston Celtics; Linda Zafrani, miembro de la oficina del L.A. Forum; los jugadores Jerry West, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Norm Nixon y Michael Cooper; Earvin Johnson, el padre de Magic Johnson, Chick Hearn, comentarista deportivo; Donald Sterling, antiguo dueño del equipo; Frank Mariani, socio de Jerry Buss; Earletha Kelly, novia de Magic Johnson; y Lon Rosen, empleado de Forum; en el drama sobre los Lakers en los 80.

Dianne Wiest (Life in Pieces, Hannah and Her Sisters) protagonizará Mayor of Kingstown junto a Jeremy Renner. Será Miriam, la matriarca de la familia McLusky y profesora en la prisión de mujeres.

Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey), Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek, 12 Monkeys), Martin Compston (Line of Duty, The Nest), Mark Bonnar (Catastrophe, Line of Duty), Rochenda Sandall (Line of Duty, Criminal: UK), Owen Teale (Game of Thrones, A Discovery of Witches), Richard Pepple (Line of Duty, Gangs of London), Calvin Demba (Life, Hollyoaks), Emun Elliott (Guilt, Trust Me), Abraham Popoola (The Great), Stuart McQuarrie (The Crown, The Hollow Crown) y Molly Vevers se unen a The Rig. Serán Magnus MacMillan, líder del equipo y gerente de la instalación; Rose Mason, científica y representante de la compañía petrolera; Fulmer Hamilton, funcionario de comunicaciones; Alwyn Evans, capataz de cubierta; Cat Braithwaite, doctora; Lars Hutton, primer perforador; Grant Dunlin, jefe de equipo; Baz Roberts, ayudante de perforación; Leck Longman, mecánico de la plataforma; Easter Ayodeji, conductor de la grúa; Colin Murchison, chef; y Heather Shaw, jornalera.

Hugo Weaving (Matrix, The Lord of the Rings), Danielle Macdonald (Unbelievable, Bird Box), Shalom Brune-Franklin (Line of Duty, Our Girl), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (Ófærð, The Minister) y Alex Dimitriades (The Slap, The End) protagonizarán The Tourist junto a Jamie Dornan.

Katie Findlay (How to Get Away with Murder, The Killing) será Rose, nuevo interés amoroso de Max (Skylar Astin), en la segunda parte de la segunda temporada de Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

Elizabeth Lail (You, Once Upon a Time) se une al reboot de Gossip Girl. Se desconocen detalles.

Anthony Boyle (The Plot Against America, Ordeal by Innocence) protagonizará Masters of the Air junto a Callum Turner y Austin Butler.

Kingsley Ben-Adir (The OA, High Fidelity) será el villano de Secret Invasion. Se desconocen detalles.

Justin Bartha (The Good Fight, The New Normal), Annabella Sciorra (The Sopranos, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), Ronald Guttman (Preacher, Hunters), Gino Cafarelli (The Irishman) y Isaach De Bankolé serán recurrentes en la segunda temporada de Godfather of Harlem como Robert Morgenthau, fiscal del distrito en el distrito sur de Nueva York; Fay Bonanno, esposa de Joe Bonanno (Chazz Palminteri); Jean Jehan, responsable de las importaciones de heroína entre Marsella y Estados Unidos; Fat Gino, uno de los secuaces Vincent 'Chin' Gigante (Vincent D'Onofrio); y Monsieur 98, químico productor de heroína extremadamente pura.

Jason Behr (Roswell, Dawson's Creek) será recurrente en la sexta y última temporada de Supergirl como un kriptoniano famoso que ayuda a Kara (Melissa Benoist) cuando se enfrenta a circunstancias más allá de su control. Claude Knowlton (American Crime Story) será un apacible alien de pasado trágico y Eliza Helm será la versión joven de Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart).

Rebecca Wisocky (Devious Maids, For All Mankind) y Meagen Fay (Agent Carter, Malcolm in the Middle) serán recurrentes en Dopesick como una agente de la FDA involucrada en la regulación del OxyContin y una monja que proporciona terapia en abusos de opioides.

Alice Kremelberg (Orange Is the New Black, The Trial of the Chicago 7) protagonizará la cuarta temporada de The Sinner junto a Bill Pullman. Será Percy Muldoon, una carismática joven de una familia de pescadores.

Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam), la esposa de Mark Harmon, participará en varios episodios de la decimoctava temporada de NCIS interpretando a Marcie Warren, una periodista de investigación.

Florence Hall (The Princess Switch: Switched Again) sustituye a Olivia Vinall como protagonista de Queens of Mystery.

Khalilah Joi (Big Little Lies, Sorry for Your Loss) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Station 19 como Condola Vargas, exnovia de Dean (Okieriete Onaodowan).

Jessica Plummer (EastEnders) será Emma, vecina de Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), en The Girl Before.

Jessica Reynolds (My Left Nut), Mark Lewis Jones (Chernobyl, The Third Day) y Alexander Vlahos (Versailles, Merlin) serán Malva, Tom y Allan Christie en la sexta temporada de Outlander.

Vanessa Williams (The Flash, Famous in Love) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de The L Word: Generation Q como Pippa Pascal, una artista incendiaria que lleva veinte años fuera del ojo público.

Shane Paul McGhie (Unbelievable, Deputy), Aimee Carrero (Young & Hungry) y Maddie Phillips (Teenage Bounty Hunters) protagonizarán el spin-off de The Boys junto a Jaz Sinclair y Lizze Broadway.

Laci Mosley (Single Parents, Florida Girls) y Jaidyn Triplett (The Affair) serán Harper, mejor amiga de Carly (Miranda Cosgrove); y Millicent, hijastra de Freddie (Nathan Kress); en el revival de iCarly.

Margaret Colin (Gossip Girl, Veep) será recurrente en la sexta temporada de Chicago Med como la madre de Natalie (Torrey DeVitto).

Pósters

Nuevas series

Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is the New Black, Russian Doll) protagonizará Poker Face, serie de misterio con casos semanales. Creada, escrita, producida y dirigida por Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Star Wars: The Last Jedi), ha recibido compromiso de diez episodios en Peacock.

Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Minari) y Ali Wong (American Housewife, Birds of Prey) protagonizarán y producirán una dramedia de diez episodios creada y escrita por Lee Sung Jin (2 Broke Girls, Tuca & Bertie). Netflix, Amazon, FX y Apple estarían interesadas.

Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live, Forever) protagonizará y producirá una comedia de Apple TV+ en la que una mujer de vida aparentemente perfecta se ve de pronto abandonada por su marido, que la deja sin nada salvo ochenta y siete mil millones de dólares. Creada y producida por Alan Yang (Forever, Master of None) y Matt Hubbard (Forever, 30 Rock).

Spectrum ha encargado diez episodios de Joe Pickett, drama basado en las novelas de C.J. Box sobre un guardabosques y su familia en un pequeño pueblo de Wyoming que esconde décadas de secretos y maquinaciones en un ambiente de cambios políticos y socioeconómicos. Protagonizada por Michael Dorman (For All Mankind, Patriot). Creada por John Erick Dowdle y Drew Dowdle (Waco, Quarantine).

Showtime ha encargado Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation, drama sobre el viaje personal de un hombre desde una niñez estigmatizada hasta convertirse en un rey guerrero. Creada y escrita por Tolu Awosika (The Terminal List). Producida y dirigida por Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer).

HBO ha adquirido los derechos de A Time for Mercy, la novela de John Grisham (2020), para su adaptación televisiva. Es la secuela de 'A Time to Kill' (1989), cuya adaptación cinematográfica protagonizó Matthew McConaughey en 1996. McConaughey está finalizando negociaciones para retomar el papel en la limited series de diez episodios.

HBO desarrolla tres spin-offs más de Game of Thrones. 9 Voyages estaría protagonizado por Lord Corlys Velaryon, también conocido como The Sea Snake, personaje de la precuela House of the Dragon. 10000 Ships se centraría en la princesa Nymeria de la casa Martell, que fundó Dorne unos mil años antes de lo ocurrido en Game of Thrones. El tercero estaría ambientado en Flea Bottom, el barrio bajo de King's Landing de donde provienen Davos Seaworth y Gendry Baratheon.

FX desarrolla City Primeval, adaptación de la primera novela (1980) de la saga de Elmore Leonard en la que se basó la serie Justified. Timothy Olyphant podría protagonizar la serie, retomando su papel de Raylan Givens, o participar con un papel más pequeño. Escrita y producida por Michael Dinner y Dave Andron (Justified, Snowfall). Dinner (Justified, Unbelievable) también dirigirá. Producida por Graham Yost, creador de Justified.

Ridley Scott (The Good Wife, The Man in the High Castle) y Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Taboo) preparan Roads to Freedom, que contará la historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial desde varios puntos de vista internacionales. Basada en los libros de Sir Antony Beevor. Escrita por Beevor y Knight y dirigida por Scott. Diez episodios.

CBS Studios prepara un reboot de animación de Everybody Hates Chris.

Austral, la novela de ciencia ficción de Paul McAuley (2017) ambientada en la Antártida en el año 2098, tendrá adaptación televisiva. Décadas después del deshielo de los glaciares, existe una nueva tierra llena de recursos y una nueva generación de colonos que provienen de todo el mundo. Austral Ferrado, que forma parte de un grupo de personas modificadas genéticamente para sobrevivir al clima del sur, se siente atrapada en una sociedad que la trata como un animal y luchará para conseguir la libertad. La serie se grabará en Noruega.

Showtime desarrolla una serie sobre los disturbios en el Capitolio tras la derrota de Donald Trump. De Billy Ray (The Comey Rule, Captain Phillips) y Shane Salerno (The Comey Rule, Armageddon).

Meghan Trainor protagonizará y desarrollará una comedia en NBC. No hay argumento anunciado ni guionistas asociados al proyecto.

Fechas

La cuarta temporada de The Syndicate se estrena en BBC One el 30 de marzo

La séptima y última temporada de Younger se estrena en Paramount+ el 15 de abril

Rutherford Falls se estrena en Peacock el 22 de abril

La tercera temporada de The Girlfriend Experience se estrena en Starz el 2 de mayo

The Upshaws llega a Netflix el 12 de mayo

La cuarta temporada de The Chi se estrena en Showtime el 23 de mayo

La tercera temporada de Black Monday se estrena en Showtime el 23 de mayo

Flatbush Misdemeanors se estrena en Showtime el 23 de mayo

Tráilers y promos

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sciencespies · 5 years

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68 Cultural, Historical and Scientific Collections You Can Explore Online

https://sciencespies.com/news/68-cultural-historical-and-scientific-collections-you-can-explore-online/

68 Cultural, Historical and Scientific Collections You Can Explore Online

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | March 23, 2020, 8 a.m.

As efforts to contain the effects of the COVID-19 crisis ramp up, millions of people around the globe are social distancing and self-quarantining themselves in their own homes. To support those in search of diversion from the relentless news cycle, Smithsonian magazine has compiled a collection of 68 online culture, history and science collections you can browse from the comfort of your living room. Whether you’re in the mood to virtually explore ancient Rome, read past presidents’ personal papers or download coloring pages from dozens of international cultural institutions, this roundup has you covered. Listings are bolded and organized by field. (See Smithsonian’s lists of museums you can virtually visit, ways to virtually experience the Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian educational resources for additional inspiration.)

History

This map of Paris highlights women’s cultural contributions to the French capital.

(Screenshot via Parisian Matrimony)

History lovers may not be able to tour the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the British Museum or the Hermitage in person, but digital history resources spanning time periods, continents and countless topics can provide some respite from these travel woes.

Step back in time via Ancient Athens 3-D or Rome Reborn, then cross the Mediterranean into Egypt for an in-depth look at the famed Nefertiti bust. Other immersive historical offerings include a virtual reality museum featuring five shipwrecked vessels; the Heritage on Edge portal, which tracks climate change’s impact on five Unesco World Heritage Sites; a 3-D digital rendering of Japan’s Shuri Castle, which was ravaged by fire in October 2019; a 3-D scan of the bullets that killed President John F. Kennedy; Below the Surface, a multimedia project that traces Amsterdam’s history through excavated artifacts; and a Sketchfab collection of around 1,700 open-access cultural heritage models, from the Abraham Lincoln Mills life mask to the entrance gates of Ireland’s Menlo Castle and a Scottish boat-building school.

Interactive maps are another option for individuals seeking higher-tech experiences. Google Earth’s Celebrating Indigenous Languages platform spotlights dialects at risk of disappearing, while Parisian Matrimony tracks women’s cultural contributions to the French capital. Mapping the Gay Guides, a newly launched public history initiative, draws on more than 30,000 listings compiled between 1965 and 1980 to visualize American queer spaces’ evolution over time.

Those with more macabre tastes may want to peruse the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, a tool that visualizes thousands of sites linked with Scotland’s 16th- and 17th-century witch hunts, or the London Medieval Murder Map, which catalogs 142 brutal 14th-century homicides. (In one particularly colorful incident, a man named John de Eddeworth avenged his murdered brother by stabbing the killer “five times with his sword, three times on the back of his head, once on the left side, and once under his left ear.”) Lower-tech maps, including the Library of Congress’ collection of 38,234 digitized travelogues and English king George III’s recently digitized private library of more than 55,000 maps, charts, prints and manuals, are also available.

Civil War map of Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia

(Library of Congress)

In the realm of information-heavy databases, highlights range from an index of searchable records that sheds light on New York’s ties to slavery to the Digital Panopticon’s descriptions of 75,688 Victorian-era convicts’ tattoos and the Getty’s archive of 6,000 photos from the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. Troves of digitized documents, meanwhile, run the gamut from historic Mexican cookbooks to a 15th-century British manners book that warns children against picking “thyne errys” and “thy nostrellys,” 155 Persian language texts spanning nearly 1,000 years, one million pages of 16th- through 20th-century content formerly deemed obscene, and the famed Dead Sea Scrolls.

Those hoping to read more personal narratives can check out photographs, prints and papers related to Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert; the only surviving Arabic slave narrative written in the U.S.; and papers penned by such prominent politicians as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton. Other public figures whose private lives endure in the digital sphere include civil rights activist Rosa Parks, baseball star Babe Ruth, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and explorer David Livingstone (as recorded in the diary of his chief attendant, Jacob Wainwright).

After Roger Fenton, Prince Albert, May 1854, 1889 copy of the original

(Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019)

John Singer Sargent, Frederick Law Olmsted, 1895

(Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Arts and Culture

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

(Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago)

In recent years, museums have increasingly turned to digitization as a tool for widening access to their collections. Among the major cultural institutions with digitized—and often open access—offerings are the Smithsonian, which released 2.8 million images into the public domain earlier this year; Paris Musées, which oversees 14 major museums in France’s capital; nonprofit organization Art U.K.; the Art Institute of Chicago; Taiwan’s National Palace Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of the Art; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Getty; the Wellcome Library; the Museum of New Zealand; and the Uffizi Galleries. Examples of artworks, artifacts and texts available for download include British psychiatric institutions’ 18th- through 20th-century records, Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom and Han dynasty jades.

In addition to digitizing broader collections, many museums have curated archives dedicated to specific topics: The Kunsthaus Zürich has an extensive trove of Dada documents that defy the movement’s long-held association with ephemerality, while the Delaware Art Museum has a portal of papers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Illinois State University’s Milner Library offers a digital collection dedicated to the history of circus. The San Francisco-based Letterform Archive has a digital archive of typographical artifacts. And Chicago’s Newberry Library provides online access to more than 200,000 images documenting the history of early America and westward expansion, including watercolors and colored pencil drawings by 19th- and 20th-century Lakota children.

The portal allows users to narrow down search results by “design-specific” terms, as well as geographic, chronological parameters.

(Courtesy of Letterform Archive)

Two giants of the digital cultural sphere—Google Arts & Culture and the Library of Congress—are each home to a dizzying number of virtual resources. The former offers experiences covering 3,000 years of fashion, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s unseen masterpieces, Latino culture in the U.S., Banksy’s most famous murals, Vermeer’s surviving paintings, armor through the ages, Easter Island and many more topics. The latter has, among others, collections of rare children’s books, Taiwanese watercolors and Chinese texts, braille sheet music, travel posters, presidential portraits, baseball cards, and images of cats and dogs. See the library’s database of digital collections for a more exhaustive overview.

The virtual museum features seven rooms focused on themes such as correspondence, music and flirtation.

(Pocket Gallery / Google Arts & Culture)

Other out-of-the-box ideas include using an app that guides readers through Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; downloading free coloring pages compiled during the annual #ColorOurCollections campaign—offerings range from a zany 1920s advertisement for butter to medical drawings, book illustrations and a wartime nurse recruitment poster; or reading the New York Public Library’s interactive Insta Novel versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

Aubrey Beardsley’s illustration for Salome by Oscar Wilde

(Courtesy of the British Library)

The NYPL’s Insta Novels are available via Instagram.

(Courtesy of the New York Public Library)

Another option for individuals with ample time on their hands is transcribing historical documents and data. The Smithsonian Transcription Center is always looking for volunteers to log field notes, diaries, ledgers, manuscripts and biodiversity specimen labels. Other offerings include the Library of Congress’ By the People project, which asks users to transcribe collections related to women’s suffrage, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln and Spanish law; the Newberry Library’s Transcribing Faith portal, which seeks volunteers eager to analyze early modern manuscripts; and the Citizen Archivist, which asks participants to tag, transcribe and add comments to the National Archives’ records.

Science

The blue-throated barbet, illustrated here in 1871, is native to southern Asia.

(Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library)

Flowers, fungi and fauna abound in digitized renderings of the natural world. The open-access Biodiversity Heritage Library, for instance, highlights more than 150,000 illustrations ranging from animal sketches to historical diagrams and botanical studies; the Watercolor World, a portal created to serve as a “visual record of a pre-photography planet,” showcases more than 80,000 paintings of landscapes, seascapes, buildings, animals, plants, ordinary people and historical events.

Maria Sibylla Merian, Untitled (Toucan), 1701–1705

Other digital science resources include an interactive map that lets users plug in their address to see how it’s changed over the past 750 million years, a collection of unsettling sounds from outer space, Cambridge University’s Isaac Newton papers, Charles Darwin’s manuscripts, hundreds of case files written by a pair of 17th-century astrologers and physicians, a map that visualizes all 21 successful moon landings, and a medical pop-up book dating to the 17th century.

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I am SO curious what you think of specific LMM short stories - namely, The Waking of Helen, The Doctor's Sweetheart, and The Growing Up of Cornelia - but also just all of them bc there is so much going on in literally all of them (not even counting the insanity that is tannis of the flats). apologies if you've talked ab them before but I am intrigued as to if you've read them/have thoughts

Thanks for this ask, I find it really interesting! I also find it very appropriate for this kilmeny shebang, because I think kilmeny provides a very good illustration for this.

I don't think I've read all of LM Montgomery's short stories, although I know I've hit a good chunk of them, so that in and of itself tells you something. There are some I really, really love and that I think are LM Montgomery at her best (The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's), but I find a lot of them to be LM Montgomery at her worst. Some of them encapsulate LM Montgomery's strengths in a really potent, concise way; a lot of them emphasize her weaknesses in parallel.

Because I haven't read a lot of them since I was a teen, I mostly have dim memories of the ones I liked, or of ones where I was like hmmm...that's funny, or the ones that I liked but now looking back am like hmm...that's funny. I used to love the Growing up of Cornelia quite a bit, but now I squint at it for obvious reasons. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED the fake dating one because I thought it was hilarious (this spinster lies to the town about having someone courting her, someone she completely fabricates - only for a man who happens to fit the description to a tee show up in a sheer shenanigan of fate). The Strike at Putney is my sister's favorite (the women of a church go on strike to combat sexism).

So overall, there are some jewels in in the mix. The form of a short story is such that in some ways, you have to strip writing and storytelling down to its bare elements. As such, I think the form of a short story is particularly well-suited to demonstrating Maud's strength of humor. When they're good, they're good.

However, as referenced, that often means when they're bad, they're bad. Some are technically well-written but gross in plotline (these are the ones that tend to be the ones I liked as a child, but as an adult..); a lot are both disturbing and imo pretty poorly written, much like a certain novel we've been discussing lately. We have Tannis (YIKES), the Education of Betty (YIKES), and others which kind of pull back the curtain on Maud.

LM Montgomery was no angel, and even beyond aspects of her you'd expect historically, she was just...kind of mean. I remember reading a letter of hers where she visited some equivalent of a girl scout troop and frankly talked about how she couldn't imagine any of the girls finding husbands because they were so plain and ugly. You see it pop up in her books, but it pops up a lot in her short stories as well. In the end, to answer your question in a general sense, I feel like overall the short stories have more kilmeny's than anne's.

Regarding the specific stories, I'd have to reread them. We did discuss the Growing Up of Cornelia on here a while back - I used to LOVE that one, but now as an adult I'm like more errrr. It is interesting to me because Sidney is the Dean Priest figure that ever haunts LMM's work. As for The Waking of Helen, iirc this is @mzannthropy's favorite! Unlike Kilmeny, it actually commits to its premise and so I think it works. I'm not really familiar with the Doctor's Sweetheart - I looked it up and nothing rang a bell.

For my favorite short stories (You didn't ask, but I shall answer anyway) - here are the ones that I remember even years later:

The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's: iconic, in a word. endlessly quotable. A spinster woman who hates men quarantined with a confirmed bachelor who hates women? Much like the blue castle, this takes a basic fanfic trope (for tbc, 'where is my wife;' for this, quarantined together) and so successfully executes it you're left with your jaw on the floor.

The Strike at Putney: this is a sister's favorite, and I can see why. Women of the church learn that a missionary will not be allowed to occupy the pulpit to speak because she's a woman, and so they go on strike. It's also a emphasized critique of the undervaluing of women's work.

The Materializing of Cecil: GOD I REMEMBER LOVING THIS ONE. This unmarried woman is embarrassed to be unmarried at forty and so flagrantly invents a lover to her sewing circle - only for a man who fits the description to SHOW UP. It's hilarious. However, as a content warning, I reread it to find there is less than fantastic description of a Chinese man near the end.

The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily: guess what? this one is in first person, and that person is ANNE. 😱 this one...it's sad, but it always stayed with me. I have read quite a few lmm stories and forgotten most, but not this one. Also, its final line is beautiful to me.

#thanks for the ask!#lm montgomery #lm montgomery short stories #aogg #kilmeny of the orchard

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