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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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McGonagall, ‘Poute’, & the Bad Poets of Victorian Dundee
“Reading through the newspaper poems of these years makes it evident that […] McGonagall was contributing to a pre-existing poetic culture that hovered between the satirical and the serious, and that caused difficulties for editors faced with deciding which was which.”
—Was McGonagall really a terrible poet? Or was he a brilliant, Andy Kaufman-esque comedian?
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/11/mcgonagall-poute-and-the-bad-poets-of-victorian-dundee/
The Bottle Imp · McGonagall, 'Poute', and the Bad Poets of Victorian Dundee - The Bottle ImpIn his essay on ‘The Great McGonagall,’ Hugh MacDiarmid commented that: McGonagall is in a very special category, and has it all to himself. There are no other writings known to me that resemble his. So far as the whole tribe of poets is concerned, from the veritable lords of language to the worst doggerel-mongers, […]
An Evening in Celebration of William Topaz McGonagall
20 April, Edinburgh – £1.79–£7.21
Join the International Ghost Society for an evening in celebration of the poet William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902) – a man commonly known as the worst poet ever to have lived …
EventbriteAn Evening in Celebration of William Topaz McGonagallA unique, one-off celebration of the life and work of William McGonagall, commonly known as the worst poet ever to have existed...
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“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”
Download a free ebook of THE DYNAMITER by Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson via @gutenberg_org
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Project GutenbergThe Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift StevensonFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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“Without Fanny, there would be no Robert Louis Stevenson as we know him. He probably would not have written Treasure Island or finished Kidnapped, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde might well have been a different story from the one the world knows today.”
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https://lithub.com/how-fanny-and-robert-louis-stevenson-defied-victorian-relationship-conventions/
Literary Hub · How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions“She was the only woman in the world worth dying for.” It was these words, which I came across in a reference to Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, that first caught my attention. They were writte…
Frances Matilda Van de Grift was born #OTD, 10 March, 1840, in Indianapolis. An author in her own right, in 1880 she married Robert Louis Stevenson, a man ten years her junior.
Professor Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between them in their 1885 co-authored novel THE DYNAMITER: granting female agency on the page & in life
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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Màiri Mhòr composed “Òran Beinn Lì” after tenants on Skye won back their grazing rights on Ben Lì & a reduction in rent – following “the Battle of the Braes” in 1882, where 50 police officers had fought with local crofters & arrested 5 men & 7 women
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https://thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/song-ben-li-cathy-ann/
The People's Voice · Òran Beinn Lì (Song of Ben Li)Return to Song Recordings homepage by Mary MacPherson (c.1821–1898) Performer: Catriona Anna Nic a’ Phì /Cathy Ann MacPhee Mary MacPherson, Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Big Mary of the Songs) composed this…
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“Her cartography of place is a peopled landscape … symbolic of the community & culture that she knew in her youth, & these personal and communal associations have a fervent emphasis in her songs”
—Priscilla Scott on the poetry of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/06/a-sense-of-place-in-the-poetry-of-mairi-mhor-nan-oran/
The Bottle Imp · A Sense of Place in the Poetry of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran - The Bottle ImpIf you happen to be visiting Portree, the main settlement on the Isle of Skye, the chances are that you will take a wander down to the bay where in the flurry of tourists and opportunistic seagulls, it is easy to miss a plaque on a white-washed wall with the Gaelic words: ‘Moch ‘s mi […]
The 19th-century Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
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The National · Màiri Mhòr nan Òran: Celebrating one of our greatest Gaelic poets
'Should come with an addiction warning!'
Escape to 19th-century Ireland with The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Apples (1887)
In museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dimensions: height 46cm, width 62cm.
These are the hills, these are the woods,
These are my starry solitudes;
And there the river by whose brink
The roaring lions come to drink…
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Story-Books”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
A poem for World Book Day (UK) 
by Roger Duvoisin, 1944
A few textures encountered while looking at type specimen catalogs held at the Smithsonian’s National American History Museum, and at the Library of Congress. File under 2-jam-packed-days in DC.
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#WoodType #19thCentury #typography #Letterpress #WoodEngraving #archives #libraries
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Portrait of Adeline Ravoux
'An excellent book depicting village life and morals in the Ireland of 1835.' Discovering Diamonds
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For #StDavidsDay we are sharing our post on elections in 19thC Glamorgan, where one of the MPs was Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, who spent 60 years in the Commons: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/09/28/representing-glamorgan-1832-85-mr-talbot-and-his-colleagues/ #19thcentury
The Victorian Commons · Representing Glamorgan, 1832-85: Mr. Talbot and his colleaguesThis post originally appeared on the History of Parliament’s blog as part of a Local History series on Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. The earlier posts in the series looked at elections in the …