2 days ago by BookClubOfOne

Persuasion was Austen's last book and was not published until after her death. It was also the only one her books I had not read, so now I have collected them all. I'm as happy as a small boy with a completed album full of football stickers. Seven years before the start of the novel, Anne Elliot was ...

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3 days ago by gail

The nineteenth century spawned a wealth of peculiar inventions. This website deals (in great detail) with the poison harpoons and lances that were invented at the height of the whaling era. Here's a sample: In August 1833 an inventor calling himself "Mechanicus" described a hand-darted poison harpoo ...

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4 days ago by [Victoria Olsen]

This image is part of a new and novel exhibition of Victorian Photocollage at the Art institute of Chicago this fall. It's an example of the kind of constructed photographs that upper-middle-class and aristocratic women in England made and kept in scrapbooks to show friends. The collages are amazing ...

Close Readings - victoriaolsen.com/blog

4 days ago by Center Caps For Rims

Over a century has passed since the automobiles became a part of our lives and from the time that the first four-wheeled contraptions hit the roads sometime in the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present a lot of water has flown under the bridge. It is hardly surprising then to learn that ...

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6 days ago by administrator

Though this secret is often overlooked in the West, Asians have known for centuries that soy protein powder is an excellent supplement for nutrition, as well as being of great medicinal value. Soy protein powder only came to use in the United Stated in the early nineteenth century, and since it was ...

The Protein Supplement ... - theproteinsupplement.com

6 days ago by Rimi B. Chatterjee

I will be in Chennai for a week, conducting a creative writing workshop with the British Council for teachers of creative writing. So I’ll leave you with a call for papers at JU. Call For Papers The Department of English, Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India), is organizing a three-day international ...

Live Like a Flame - rimibchatterjee.net/livelikeaflame · 2 references

7 days ago by lolarusa

Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay, An’ wash the cups an’ saucers up, an’ brush the crumbs away, An’ shoo the chickens off the porch, an’ dust the hearth, an’ sweep, An’ make the fire, an’ bake the bread, an’ earn her board-an’-keep; An’ all ...

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8 days ago by JBoy

Ron Mark asked: Beauty has always been an ideal that people have strived to attain. Whether moral or physical, beauty revealed itself as a goal, but also as a means to improve one’s life from several points of view. Consequently, jewellery proved to be an excellent tool for achieving that ideal. Nec ...

Jewelry Boy - jboy.com

9 days ago by highlyeccentric

Between Women: friendship, desire and marriage in Victorian England – Sharon Marcus, Princeton University Press 2007. Someone recommended this to me a couple of months back, before I made my excellent if rather sudden decision to apply for an MDST masters next year. I’d been toying with the idea of ...

The Naked Philologist - nakedphilologist.wordpress.com · 16 references

9 days ago by Editor

Product Description This book is the first comprehensive study of the history of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization of Algerian was a priority for colonial regimes across the century, but that this goal was thwarted by gaps which lay between the imagined ...

Medical Rag - medicalrag.com · 1 reference