Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet has been one of my favorite magazines for a long time, always publishing work unlike anything you’ll read elsewhere. The November issue is largely given over to a novella from
Sarah Langan, “
You Have the Prettiest Mask“. It’s either a timely story or a weirdly untimely story! It’s told by Cathy Lerner, a 12-year-old girl attending an exclusive school, who opens the story by spurning her uncool long-time friend to join a clique of mean girls; while her parents’ marriage seems to be disintegrating. So far, so traditional YA! But it’s set in the aftermath of the “Y-plague,” an Ebola-like disease that affects only males, and that is transmitted only by sexually mature females. A year ago that would have seemed material for a commentary on human sexual dynamics, perhaps, especially as perceived by a just pre-pubescent girl with a younger brother and with parents on the outs. But in 2020 the notion of a worldwide pandemic –
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Like most Gothics, the Australian Gothic has acquired its own distinct aesthetic most frequently, an abject unpleasantness and atmosphere of sand-scoured horror. Personally, I’d like to blame both
Evil Angels (aka
Strange Objects (1990) for many of my own nightmares.
It is also, like most Gothics, tangled up with the genre’s own past, and inextricably knotted into colonial and imperial histories as well as the multitude of other mirrored and recurring histories typical of a Gothic plot. And Australia has a bloody history, with terrible things done and still being done. Yet there are also stories which, without shying away from terrors (although not necessarily innately any better at handling the true history than other varieties of Australian Gothic), manage in a variety of fascinating ways to capture a sense of great (even sublime, often terrifying, never false) beauty.
Thomas Goode delves into its history for Sotheby s auction
Sevres Dinner Service Made for Napoleon. Courtesy Sotheby s.
LONDON
.- Thomas Goode & Co., home to the worlds finest tableware, china, silver and crystal on Londons South Audley Street since 1845 and in Mayfair since 1827, is opening-up its collections for the first time in 200 years for an auction with Sothebys.
Over nearly two centuries of production and collecting, Thomas Goode has accumulated numerous wonderful objects, including one copy of every commissioned piece supplied for their own archives. Many of these treasures have been stored unseen in the attics and vaults, until now.
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