American Scrapbook
Friday, September 27, 2013

E.D.E.N. Southworth in London

›
E.D.E.N. Southworth has been claiming my attention this summer. I revisited The Hidden Hand  and, unexpectedly, was very happy to be able ...
1 comment:
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

George Catlin's American Indian Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

›
No lie - you've got until June 23rd Last time, I was engaging in a little cultural time-travel with my Walter Scott field-trip - at...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Field trip: On location with Walter Scott's Fortunes of Nigel (1822)

›
( "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

›
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

›
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...
‹
›
Home
View web version
My photo
Thomas Ruys Smith
Academic and writer.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.