vivdunstan | Entries tagged with 1930s

You're viewing

vivdunstan's journal
Create a Dreamwidth Account Learn More

Reload page in style: light

Finished reading a new book about the letters of Mary Queen of Scots last night, Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jade Scott. Review to follow soon on my academic blog. Meanwhile, and continuing the literary theme, I’ve started reading about a 1930s book forgery case, The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world by Joseph Hone. Likely to review that book in due course too.

Cover of "Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots" by Jade Scott. The cover is richly designed, with emblems such as the thistle and rose against a rich blue background. At the top of the cover is a contemporary image of Mary herself. Around the edge designs twine further.

Cover of "The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world" by Joseph Hone. The image shows a partially torn book being looked at through a magnifying glass. In the background and around the edge are green art deco style detailing, harking back to the 1930s era being discussed in the book.

Continuing streaming old but recent ish theatre plays using the National Theatre at Home subscription I got at a hefty reduction before Christmas. Now on to Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring Andrew Scott, and cleverly gender-swapping in part the original. Andrew Scott won the Best Actor Olivier Award for this.

Profile

vivdunstan

June 2025

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Links

Syndicate

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Current reading, non fiction/history
Current watching (theatre): Present Laughter

Active Entries

Style Credit

Base style: Marginless by momijizukamori and branchandroot
Theme: Mars by momijizukamori

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page generated Jun. 12th, 2025 05:44 pm

Powered by Dreamwidth Studios

	
		OSZAR »