BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:O'Neal Library X-WR-CALNAME:O'Neal Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:695580d5-475f-4eb2-825c-7642591cbaaa SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260804T195943Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210729T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210729T203000 SUMMARY:Lost & Found LOCATION:O’Neal Library\nO’Neal Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=O’Neal Library;X-AP PLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=O’Neal Library:geo:33.5012942,-86.7565774 GEO:33.5012942;-86.7565774 DESCRIPTION:Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood.\nhttps://emmetonea l.libnet.info/event/5041859 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Mark your calendar for the Lost &\; Fou nd discussion of Caroline Blackwood's shockingly funny "Great Granny Webst er" on 29 July 2021. Heiress to the Guinness fortune\, Blackwood was celeb rated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her na me as a strikingly original writer. This macabre\, mordantly funny\, partl y autobiographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy\, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulo us monster\, the chilliest of matriarchs\, presiding with steely self-rega rd over a landscape of ruined lives. It is Blackwood's masterpiece and ano ther novel to add to that strange pantheon of short works that pack an eno rmous literary wallop! Poet Philip Larkin said about it\, "None of us will ever forget Caroline Blackwood's "Great Granny Webster"\, a matter-of-fac t account \; - and all the grimmer for this matter-of-factness - of th e temperamental and circumstantial misfortunes of the Ulster family. Altho ugh it's deceptively concise\, it evokes the spirit of no less than four a ges: Victorian\, Edwardian\, pre- and postwar\, in exact\, resonant prose. ..A uniquely literary experience." Feel free to enjoy an adult beverage du ring the discussion. We look forward to seeing you!

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