tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post5816383917238874602..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: Revisiting the PastK. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-33065758923465541802010-04-14T13:38:56.112-04:002010-04-14T13:38:56.112-04:00That explains why it looks like the Gainsborough p...That explains why it looks like the Gainsborough portrait of the Bad Duchess. She is more familiar to me as a really famous Lady MacBeth and as Fanny Kemble's aunt.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00745260466541309506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-10408944949864070242010-04-14T11:31:52.391-04:002010-04-14T11:31:52.391-04:00It's Gainsborough's portrait of the actor ...It's <a href="http://anneglover.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/regency-women-of-character-sarah-siddons/" rel="nofollow">Gainsborough's portrait of the actor Sarah Siddons</a> (a familiar name to <i>All About Eve</i> fans). I have Regency on the brain as I happened on an obscure <a href="http://www.georgette-heyer.com/" rel="nofollow">Georgette Heyer</a> title in a used bookstore in Las Cruces and devoured it on the flight back.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-38022832429403455602010-04-14T11:00:16.417-04:002010-04-14T11:00:16.417-04:00I love the woman in the Georgiana Spencer hat -- i...I love the woman in the Georgiana Spencer hat -- is it her or just a rival who liked the Devonshire look? Not very medieval, though....Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00745260466541309506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-84004581994313908042010-04-14T10:14:15.047-04:002010-04-14T10:14:15.047-04:00LOL -- thanks! I wonder how many stories (apart fr...LOL -- thanks! I wonder how many stories (apart from the obvious like <i>Small World</i>) MLA and its counterpart conferences have inspired. Hee.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-31165970792019669392010-04-14T10:05:26.261-04:002010-04-14T10:05:26.261-04:00Loved WIXEY. Thanks for pointing me to it. A perfe...Loved WIXEY. Thanks for pointing me to it. A perfect flash story-actually inspiring. Still need to read the other but we will always have WIXEY.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com