Friday, May 24, 2013
Field trip: On location with Walter Scott's Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
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( "Camlet Moat", Fortunes of Nigel , via Illustrating Scott ) This one has been a long time in the works: the discovery tha...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Our Library Table: Debby Applegate's The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry and Harriet I've been reading Debby Applegate's The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher in st...
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Dime Novel Debate, Again
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George Cary Eggleston After my last post on the debates about the place of the Dime Novel in American culture in the 1880s , Demian Katz...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
"Poor little Nellie Grant" and the Wedding of the Century
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Nellie Grant, Algernon Sartoris ( via ) Last year I took part in some filming for an episode of Heir Hunters , the BBC's genealog...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mark Twain on Mardi Gras
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(Mardi Gras in 1858, London Illustrated News , May 8 1858, via ) On March 8 1859, a 23 year old trainee steamboat pilot named Samuel Cle...
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