Jane Merryman

O’Brian, Patrick. Master and Commander. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.
 
    Many of us of a certain age will remember, from the pen of C. S. Forester, the saga of Horatio Hornblower as he rose from British midshipman to admiral while fighting Napoleon’s navy in the young years of the nineteenth century. These tales […]

Murdoch, Iris. The Bell. London, Chatto & Windus, 1973.
 
    Just as scenery functions as a character for film directors John Ford and David Lean, the English countryside serves as a protagonist—from the poems of John Clare to the novels of Thomas Hardy. So it is not surprising that the gentle folds of southern England […]