OVERVIEW: The Weather 2. Snow (2009)
Apr. 24th, 2009 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllWhat's (maybe) better than bookshops? Shops that sell books and bookshelves!
A new name for the collection - Winsome, who features in 'The Innocent Sinner' by Dora M. Hardisty (a story in The Big Book of School Stories for Girls) who is supposed to well named, melting the hearts of headmistresses, school puppies and rivals alike.
I watched a BBC4 documentary on Snow on iPlayer (the title is The Weather and it first aired on Monday at 9, so it's still available on iPlayer). The topic was fascinating, and the programme covered science, the history of science and culture, and provided an insight into our human and British fascination with t and backing that up with the metereological science. And as filler goes, pictures of snowflakes and snowfall with songs from 'White Christmas' is high-quality filler. Dickens is partly to blame, but he was living through a Little Ice Age. To bring it quickly to Girls Own - the Alpine locale and the dependable snowy adventures of the winter term would naturally be part of the appeal of the Chalet School and other Alpin standalones to British readers. As snow has been an infrequent (and therefore disruptive to the ordinary round) event in our lives, it's familiar but exotic, especially when amped up. And even in stories set in the UK, you're far more likely to get a white Christmas in a girls' own/family book than you would be in real life.
A new name for the collection - Winsome, who features in 'The Innocent Sinner' by Dora M. Hardisty (a story in The Big Book of School Stories for Girls) who is supposed to well named, melting the hearts of headmistresses, school puppies and rivals alike.
I watched a BBC4 documentary on Snow on iPlayer (the title is The Weather and it first aired on Monday at 9, so it's still available on iPlayer). The topic was fascinating, and the programme covered science, the history of science and culture, and provided an insight into our human and British fascination with t and backing that up with the metereological science. And as filler goes, pictures of snowflakes and snowfall with songs from 'White Christmas' is high-quality filler. Dickens is partly to blame, but he was living through a Little Ice Age. To bring it quickly to Girls Own - the Alpine locale and the dependable snowy adventures of the winter term would naturally be part of the appeal of the Chalet School and other Alpin standalones to British readers. As snow has been an infrequent (and therefore disruptive to the ordinary round) event in our lives, it's familiar but exotic, especially when amped up. And even in stories set in the UK, you're far more likely to get a white Christmas in a girls' own/family book than you would be in real life.
