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Stielstra, Julie

Still fascinated by the First World War, Julie Stielstra is currently living on the American Great Plains and writing a historical novel about Kansan conscientious objectors and women’s suffragists of the period.

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Julie Stielstra on R. C. Sherriff, The Hopkins Manuscript

Edward Hopkins is a middle-aged bachelor, retired from teaching arithmetic to breed poultry in the English countryside. He gardens, he is vainglorious about his prize-winning chickens, and he is a regular attendee at meetings of the British Lunar Society. He is also an arrogant snob, utterly self-absorbed and lacking in self-awareness. He tells us he has a ‘gift for friendship’ and a ‘restful, pleasant personality’. Among his neighbours he has ‘selected’ two gentlemen, with whom he has spent happy evenings ‘discussing my poultry until long past midnight . . . It was a great regret to me when both of them decided to go and live farther away.’ Oh, I thought, this is going to be good.

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