…you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and to feel it’s good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You’re not likely ever to get all these things, and you’re not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don’t, but that is – and should be – your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.
from Tulip, Dashiell Hammett’s unfinished autobiographical novel
‘Aunty Muriel’ is an online persona. I studied as an undergraduate at King’s College London and in 2007 gained an MA in Literature from the University of Auckland. In 2019 I completed an MA in Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham.
I am the author of Ungrammaticalities: Linguistic Literary Criticism from ‘The Battle of Maldon’ to Muriel Spark, which comprises many of the essays and posts previously available on this blog. The book and e-book are available to purchase here. 
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Very much enjoyed your piece on “The World’s End”—thanks!
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Thank you! I’m very glad you liked it.
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Hi there! I was just rewatching Dick Turpin and I ran across your blog! Greatly enjoyed your write-ups on the first four episodes. Are you planning on doing any more episodes?
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Hi there! I was rewatching Dick Turpin and doing some googling about it and I ran across your blog! Greatly enjoyed your write-ups on the first four episodes—are you planning to do any more?
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Thank you! I might come back to this, but I’m distracted by other projects at the moment. I was planning on doing the whole lot because it’s such a fab series!
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