By Irini Sala and Konstantina Sampani Post-WWI Franco-German wastelands. On a train ride to Baden-Baden, Katherine calls into question her marriage with her current…
anna30/03/2023
By Chryssa Marinou May Sinclair’s 1915 A Journal of Impressions in Belgium is a record of her time near the Belgian war front. According to…
anna14/01/2023
By Athanasios Dimakis Excerpt From South Riding, Winifred Holtby (posthumously, 1936) Book VI: “Mental Deficiency” Chapter 6: “Two in a Hotel are Temporarily Insane” Sarah had…
anna18/12/2022
By Athanasios Dimakis Lillian Hellman (1905-84), the American playwright and author, visited Moscow in 1944. Her stay is recorded in her diary, which was published…
anna05/04/2022
By Anna Despotopoulou In “The Dead” (1914) and “The Stranger” (1922), James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield use the hotel room to explore themes of passion,…
anna13/02/2022
by Anna Despotopoulou On the 4th of June 1909, Edith Wharton spent a night with her lover William Morton Fullerton at the Charing Cross Hotel…
anna22/11/2021
by Laura Oulanne Eat. Drink. Walk. March. Back to the hotel. To the Hotel of Arrival, the Hotel of Departure, the Hotel of the Future,…
anna11/10/2021
By Anna Despotopoulou Mrs. Leveret’s sense of being adrift was intensified by the appearance of Mrs. Ballinger’s drawing-room. To a careless eye its aspect was…
anna04/10/2021
by Chryssa Marinou When the door was at last blessedly closed upon the narrow room whose first statements miscarried, lost in the discovery that even…
anna14/06/2021
