The Whartons of Winchendon, is a new serialisation of Jonathan Law's latest book, which is published for Kindle by Dabbler Editions and available to buy from Amazon now. In this episode we meet Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, who was instrumental not only in the rise to power of his family, but also ... Read More...
About Author Profile: Jonathan Law
The Dabbler is proud to present The Whartons of Winchendon, a major new serialisation of Jonathan Law's latest book, which is published for Kindle by Dabbler Editions and available to buy from Amazon now. By turns hilarious and tragic, it tells the tale of the rise and fall of one of the ... Read More...
In the autumn Jonathan Law will be returning with a major new series on a remarkable family of eccentrics. In the meantime, here's a rerun of his take on the underexplored literary topic of 'Cake imagery in the writings of Sylvia Plath'... On a damp afternoon one May, enraged cake-obsessive ‘ianf’ ... Read More...
Last year we ran a post by Jonathan Law about the mysterious disappearance in the 1970s of the strange and brilliant poet Rosemary Tonks. Last month, new information about her vanishing act came to light. Here is Jonathan's original post, with an update... If you’ve ever come across the work of Rosemary Tonks, then I think I ... Read More...
'piles: see Benn, Tony'... Just occasionally, a book's index is a work of art in itself. Here, Jonathan Law finds some that offer a hilarious insight into 1970s Britain... In a recent Dabbler Diary, Brit wrote interestingly about reactions to the passing of Tony Benn – that “indefatigable, articulate, admirable, unique ... Read More...
In his late fifties the great novelist and lecturer John Cowper Powys moved with his companion to a rural cottage in New England. As Jonathan Law reveals in this remarkable essay, the remote setting enabled Powys to give full vent to his bewildering range of manias and eccentricities... In the spring ... Read More...
An eerily perfect etching casts a chilly spell over Jonathan Law. Winter in the cathedral city – somewhere in the north of England, some time (we might guess) in the earlier 1500s. Gothic structures rise from the earth, rear ponderously skyward, and lose themselves in the glistening, frosty light. Snow on ... Read More...
From Wordsworth to Auden, a surprising number of famous poems have been blighted - or sometimes, improved - by printing errors, as Jonathan Law reveals... On a hazy day at the close of August Frank Key gave us his startling revisionist take on a well-known poem by Sylvia Plath: In her mad poem ... Read More...
A treat for you today,as the great Jonathan Law reflects on hawthorn blossom, Ruskin's dark secrets and the death of a maiden... According to W.G. Hoskins in The Making of the English Landscape, the hawthorn hedges of England are to be seen in their full splendour on one particular date – ... Read More...
'Cake imagery in the writings of Sylvia Plath' is an underexplored literary topic, but if anyone can take it on, marginalia maestro Jonathan Law can... On a damp afternoon in May, enraged cake-obsessive ‘ianf’ posted a plea for more serious treatment of his favourite subject: You seem to be stuck forever in ... Read More...
