Next meeting!!

Dear friends.

Our next meeting will have a very specific topic - COMICS. We invite all fans and also adversaries to chat about classical heroes, graphic novels, about growing popularity of comics. I hope that lot of you will come despite the holiday and nice summer weather. Meeting will be held as usual at the Clubroom of the Central Library (Mariánské nám. 1, Prague 1) on July 8 at 6:30 pm.

Women and literature - quiz

Dear readers,

Last meeting was about Literature for women and in the beginning we tried to answer this quiz. Answers below.

1. The names of three famous English writers of the 1840s and 1850s?
(Because it's too easy, there are no options.)

2. Which Brönte sister wrote The Professor?
A. Anna
B. Charlotte
C. Emily

3. When did Jane Austen get married?
A. 1757 (when she was 18)
B. 1816 (one year before her death)
C. she never get married

4. Whole name of Virginia Woolf is:
A. Adeline Virginia Woolf
B. Barbara Virginia Woolf
C. Marie Virginia Woolf

5. Marjane Satrapi, author of graphic novel Persepolis was born in:
A. Iraq
B. Iran
C. Israel

6. Who is the author of The Six Bullerby Children?
A. Dagmar Lange
B. Sara Lidman
C. Astrid Lindgren

7. The most famous Czech female writer is:
A. Božena Němcová
B. Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
C. Marie Pujmanová

8. The richest female writer is:
A. Helen Fielding
B. J. K. Rowling
C. Gina B. Nahai

9. The pen name of Mary Anne Evans:
A. George Eliot
B. James Joyce
C. Adam Bede

10. Who is the author of this title:

Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 to which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions

Correct answers:
1. Brönte sisters - Anna, Charlotte, Emily
2B - first novel by Charlotte Brönte - published posthumously
3C
4A - but her original name was Adeline Virginia Stephen
5B - now Satrapi lives in France
6C - She is the best remembered for writing the Pipi Longstocking
7A - Author of the novel Babička (Grandma)
8B - Author of Harry Potter series
9A - She was an English novelist, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era
10 - Queen Victoria

Fairy Tales

Dear readers,

here is the report from the meeting about Fairy Tales. The author is Marta that held this meeting.

At the beginning of our fairy evening we used the folklorist classification of folk tales and tried to explain some expressions. Than some famous tales collectors as Němcová, Erben, Dobšinský, brothers Grimms were mentioned.

We had fun during listening to Astrid Lindgren short story „Older sister and younger brother“ – a story where an older sister is trying to tell a fairy tale to her younger brother.

Classic fairy tales are always full of several archetypes of character, they are spread all over the world, though some story details may differ (as for example Czech, Slovak and English Cinderella version). It was also interesting to hear that the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl Rhodopis, recorded in the 1st century BC, was considered the oldest known version of the story.

Sometimes life is like a fairy tale, but not each story finishes with a happy ending. Lida Baarova story was given as a good example.

All of us liked very much another story about the girl, who did not agree with marriage and lived happily on her own ever after.

And before saying goodbye an old Chinese story about first storyteller was retold and I hope we all spent a nice time by returning to our childhood – at least for a while.

Jane Austen's works

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.

Novels

• Sense and sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1815)
• Northanger Abbey (1817)
• Persuasion (1817)

Unfinished fiction

• Lady Susan (1794, 1805)
• The Watsons (1804)
• Sanditon (1817)
  

Other works

• Sir Charles Grandison (1793, 1800)
• Plan of a Novel (1815)
• Poems
• Prayers
• Letters

Juvenilia – Volume the First

• Frederic & Elfrida
• Jack & Alice
• Edgar & Emma
• Henry and Eliza
• The Adventures of Mr. Harley
• Sir William Mountague
• Memoirs of Mr. Clifford
• The Beautiful Cassandra
  
• Amelia Webster
• The Visit
• The Mystery
• The Three Sisters
• A beautiful description
• The generous Curate
• Ode to Pity

Juvenilia – Volume the Second

• Love and Friendship
  
• Lesley Castle
• A Collection of Letters
• The female philosopher
• The first Act of a Comedy
• The history of England
  
• A Letter from a Young Lady
• A Tour through Wales
• A Tale

Juvenilia – Volume the Third

• Evelyn
• Catharine, or the Bower