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        <description><![CDATA[M., 21, French, studying for an MA in Early Modern Literature in the UK, shy, bookworm, absent-minded. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Keats, Emily Bront&euml;, Thomas Hardy, Guy de Maupassant...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Billet n°4']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:14:46 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am currently Reading: Evelina, by Frances Burney Hoping to: be able to finish my pierrot jacket before May 25th. Looking for: a job. Listening to: Regõ Rejtem, by The Moon and the Nightspirit. In the mood of: the 1780s. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Extract from Frances Burney's Evelina]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(picture from I Capture the Period Pieces) As we entered the shop, I observed a young man, in deep morning, leaning against the wall, with his arms folded, and his eyes fixed on the ground, apparently in profound and melancholy meditation: but the moment... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Emily Brontë ('I’m happiest when most away')]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(from mmorrow) I’m happiest when most awayI can bear my soul from its home of clayOn a windy night when the moon is brightAnd the eye can wonder through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside—Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky—But only spirit... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lack of Inspiration n°1]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Where are the words ? ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Graduation Day' ou comment passer officiellement à la case 'Postgraduate']]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2012/12/05/25752487.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[30th November 2012, Canterbury ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['My True-Love Hath My Heart']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a bargain better driven. His heart in me keeps me and him in one, My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides;... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Yet I remember']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Dear Reader, During my second university year, I used to visit this place as often as I could. Can you guess where I was ? Is it a sense of melancholy , or a burst of excitement at the thought of the graduation that made me post this? ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[En kongelig affære - A Royal Affair]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since I saw this film, and I do apologise for the poor ‘review’ I shall make of it (can we even call that a review? Please Reader, don’t take these writings too seriously, they are the result of a daydreamer’s reflections). To give you... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['In Vérino Veritas']]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2012/10/15/25336669.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[C'est tellement ça. En fait. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[News from England, or How to Survive a First Week of Seminars]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2012/10/13/25321361.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Source image: Sara’s wonderful tumblr. A fter fighting with my curtains, going and coming to different conferences and meetings for postgraduates (on ‘how you’ll have no social life at all during your studies’, gloups!), meeting other students (including... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Billet n°3']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am currently Reading: Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey and essays about the Renaissance. Hoping to: find a brilliant idea for the topic of my summer dissertation. *Fingers Crossed* Looking for: an edition of the play The Roaring Girl, by Thomas... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Room With a View... Student accommodation]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[[Un écureuil a emporté la photo] C’est en luttant avec mes rideaux que j’ai enfin acknowledged que j’étais rentrée en Angleterre. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Up and Away]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I’ve been nearly completely absent from this blog in the past few months, and for that I apologise. With essays, orals, exams and the final year dissertation, I was quite busy during these last months as an undergraduate. But now it’s official: I obtained... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Veni Veni Bella']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[by The Mediaeval Baebes ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Happy New Year !']]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2012/01/07/23183493.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Et hop, j’inaugure l’année 2012 avec un article en français (le premier sur ce blog !) que je dois bien à ma lectrice francophone depuis le temps que Persuasion a été créé ! En plus, ces derniers temps, je dois avouer que je n’ai pas été particulièrement... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[‘A Song’, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[‘Since he is gone, O then salt tears,Drown both mine eyes, and stop mine earsWith grief; my grief it is so much,It locks my smell up, taste, and touch.In me remains but little breath,Which quickly take away, O Death.’ ‘A Song’, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Framboise toute pâle]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2011/11/23/22783487.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[[Triste Sourire] "J'ai perdu aux chaises musicales." ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Billet n°2']]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2011/10/18/22386201.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am currently Reading: 1599, by James Shapiro and Hope and Glory, by Peter Clarke (well, I really need to read the last one for the univ') . Hoping to: have time to sleep. Looking for: inspiration for my next essays. Listening to: Rolling In the Deep,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[‘Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art’]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2011/09/04/21860163.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I did not discover John Keats’s life in Bright Star. Like many students in English, I already knew some of his poems, the romance with Fanny Brawne, his death and late recognition as one of the greatest English poets of the Romantic Age. I therefore believed... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sonnet 12 - W. Shakespeare]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Billet n°1']]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://persuasion.canalblog.com/archives/2011/05/19/21144679.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am currently Reading: The Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe. Hoping for: the end of the exam session. Looking for: Twelfth Night in the Arden edition. Listening to: Fídhe Ra Hurí, by Omnia. In the mood of: the 18th century. Studying: in revisions... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['I was persuaded']]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Dear Reader, The reason for which I decided to create this little space of words is that soon, I will be twenty, and I realised that I felt it necessary to leave a part of my youth, a bunch of memories somewhere. Last year in September, I packed some... ]]></description>
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