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Cursed Fountains? The Bride of Lammermoor and Brideshead Revisited

A view from the fountain of Castle Howard I recently visited Castle Howard in Yorkshire. For those of you who haven’t been, it’s definitely worth going. Beautiful grounds, well-informed staff, and a...

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Downton Abbey and Star-Crossed Plots

Lady Sybil, Lady Mary and Lady Edith In the popular TV show Downton Abbey, it seems the course to true love never runs smooth, although that is not to say that the writer Julian Fellowes doesn’t  give...

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Book Review: The Bride of Lammermoor: Hard to define, even harder to forget

Another thought-provoking post from one of my students, this time from my Star-crossed Lovers course in Southport: The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott is hard to define;  the opening chapter is...

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