Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Mr. Pooter Remembers the Fifth of November
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To mark the day, Mr. Pooter's account of a firework party : From, of course, George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobo...
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Countdown To Halloween: "A Hallowe'en Party" (1896)
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"Pumpkin Carving", Benjamin Franklin Reinhart, 1872 ( via ) It's Halloween! Which means we've come to the end of the ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Countdown to Halloween: War Wounds
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Today, a Halloween story from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine in 1870, in which the emerging holiday touches upon the trauma o...
Friday, October 25, 2013
Countdown to Halloween: Pumpkins Redux
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"Pumpkin Time", H. Harring after Benjamin Champney for L. Prang & Co., 1872, via It's about time we saw some pumpkins...
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Countdown to Halloween: Walter Scott, "Tam Lin", and "Thomas the Rhymer"; or, Scary Fairies
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"The Young Tamlane" Fairies and old ballads - for various reasons, none of which we need to go into right now , I've been ...
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