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Lindsay Reckson

Lindsay Reckson is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on a book about ecstatic experience and performance in American literary realism.

Crying in Public

JEROME, PATRON SAINT OF ASCETIC LIBRARIANS. Paula, patron saint of widows, the voiceless, and the codependent. Lawrence, patron saint of students and barbecues. Anthony, patron saint of masturbators, epileptics, and tortured French realists. Colin Dickey’s Afterlives of Saints: Stories ...

LINDSAY RECKSON

Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia, Daughter of God"

IN STYLE IT TOOK THE SHAPE of any other garden party, that signal diversion of the interwar years. Tea and jellies, dancing and croquet, "lemon-ade" and clock golf: Octavia gave a Garden Party to all at the Centre, in the Garden ...

LINDSAY RECKSON

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