By the last count, seven directors have filmed Austen’s Emma. None of them are definitive or even alike. A list is provided as a separate entry. McGrath’s Emma is lively, and his picnic episode at Donwell Abbey and Box Hill is reasonably close to...
Larned’s recipe for a picnic staple: Chicken Salad “Cook chicken in boiling water, when half done add salt, a slice each of salt pork, lemon, and onion, a bit of bay leaf, and a piece of red pepper. Cool in the stock, drain, and cut in cubes. Cover them...
The other picnic in The Wind in the Willows is”Wayfarers All,” a somber conversation between Ratty and Sea Rat that alert readers will guess is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner. Here Sea Rat portrays the Ancient Mariner, whose...
Astrid Lindgren’s zany picnic is a gastronomical feast. The chief picnicker is Pippi Longstocking, a brash, energetic, good-natured Swedish girl of nine who lives independently packs her own picnic. After zipping through some household chores, Pippi takes her...
Bowen’s often quoted “it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden” is a metaphor, usually taken out of context: “No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. One kind of power to...
Nolan’s fantasy is that Australia’s most renowned bushranger Ned Kelly enjoyed a bush picnic. His source is probably J. J. Keneally’s sympathetic biography The Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang (1929), based on which Nolan made two series...
Leiris’s autobiographical exposé of trying to make sense of his emerging Manhood includes an episode of when he got his first erection at a family picnic in a Paris park. He was six or seven years old, and at the time, he recalls, he “established no direct relation...
Winston Smith’s relationship with Julia (no last name) is among the most satisfying moments in Orwell’s 1984. It’s an interlude of romantic entanglement that begins a lustful relationship ending in pain and utter defeat. Leaving the dust of London for a safe place in...
The picnic is missing in Maria Augusta von Trapp’s The Story of the von Trapp Family Singers, Liebeneiner’s film Die Trapp-Familie, and the Broadway musical of The Sound of Music. Robert Wise and screenwriter Ernest Lehman wrote it for The Sound of Music. Set on the...
A very happy picnic. See Doris Emrick Lee’s <em>High Flying Picnic</em> (1950). Gouache on board 16.5 x 12.75 in. (41.9 x 32.4 cm.)
