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May 25, 2021 · This extends to the way Cohen writes about Austen’s characters, I didn’t know her [Anne Elliot] at the time her mother died, when she was fourteen, and I didn’t know her when she was first in love with Captain Wentworth, and when she was nineteen, that summer of 1806, when he was briefly on land.
She was put on transport on 7 August 1943 from Westerbork to concentration camp Vught, where she stayed until 15 November. Presumably she has been put to work there as a cloak stitcher too, her actual trade. On 15 November a direct deportation transport to Auschwitz departed from Vught, which included the then 21-year old Rachel Cohen Rodrigues ...
Cohen's first book, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, (Random House, 2004) is a series of thirty-six linked essays about the encounters among thirty figures in American history during the long century from the civil war through the civil rights movement; it won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, was a finalist for the ...
Jul 21, 2020 · "About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author." In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality.
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Sep 15, 2020 · In new book Austen Years, Prof. Rachel Cohen processes grief, life transitions through writing. Rachel Cohen had never thought of herself as a Jane Austenite. An essayist who teaches English and creative writing at the University of Chicago, her work explores more recent authors such as James Baldwin, and time periods such as the Gilded Age and ...
Sep 7, 2014 · I will reflect on the DC branch and on the overall Cohen family once I’ve written about Rachel. On January 10, 1880, Rachel, as I wrote earlier, had married Frederick Selinger of Hurben, Germany, the presumed older brother or cousin of both Julius and Alfred Selinger, who married Rachel’s nieces Augusta and Fannie Cohen, respectively.
On the painter Agnes Martin. The Believer. “Gold, Golden, Gilded, Glittering,” November / December 2012. On the long double history of painting and banking from Siena in 1300 to Damien Hirst in our own day. Featured on Three Quarks Daily republished in The Utne Reader. Bookforum. “Church Fathers,” Fall 2008.
