How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations
Janet Todd Explores the Origins and Afterlives of a Longtime Object of Literary Desire
https://lithub.com/how-mr-darcy-became-one-of-jane-austens-most-memorable-creations/
More information about Mr. Darcy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Darcy
Pride and Prejudice at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42671
![A card of Brock's illustrations of Pride and Prejudice:
Chapter 3:-- Darcy on Elizabeth: `She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.'
Chapter 6:-- Sir William Lucas: `Mr. Darcy, you must allow me to present this young lady to you as a very desirable partner.'
Chapter 13:- Mrs. Bennet: `Why Jane -- you never dropt a word of this, you sly thing!'
Chapter 15:- Mr. Denny entreated permission to introduce his friend [Wickham].
Chapter 18:-- [Mr. Collins] prefaced his speech with a solemn bow.
Chapter 19:-- Mr. Collins: `Almost as soon as I entered the house I singled you out as the companion of my future life.'
Chapter 28: -- Mr. Collins and Charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation with the ladies [Anne de Bourgh and Mrs. Jenkinson].
Chapter 30:-- She [Lady Catherine] sallied forth to scold them into harmony and plenty.
Chapter 31:-- Elizabeth: `You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy?'
Chapter 37:-- Lady Catherine: `I assure you, I feel it exceedingly.'
Chapter 43:-- The introduction, however, was immediately made.
Chapter 47:-- Jane: `I never saw any one so shocked.'
Chapter 51:-- She [Lydia] went after dinner to shew her ring, and boast of being married, to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.
Chapter 55:-- She [Elizabeth] perceived her sister and Bingley standing together.
Chapter 56:-- Lady Catherine: `Miss Bennet, I insist on being satisfied.'
Chapter 60:-- He [Darcy] could even listen to Sir William Lucas.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/199/809/152/739/216/original/14828939413cb733.png "A card of Brock's illustrations of Pride and Prejudice:
Chapter 3:-- Darcy on Elizabeth: `She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.'
Chapter 6:-- Sir William Lucas: `Mr. Darcy, you must allow me to present this young lady to you as a very desirable partner.'
Chapter 13:- Mrs. Bennet: `Why Jane -- you never dropt a word of this, you sly thing!'
Chapter 15:- Mr. Denny entreated permission to introduce his friend [Wickham].
Chapter 18:-- [Mr. Collins] prefaced his speech with a solemn bow.
Chapter 19:-- Mr. Collins: `Almost as soon as I entered the house I singled you out as the companion of my future life.'
Chapter 28: -- Mr. Collins and Charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation with the ladies [Anne de Bourgh and Mrs. Jenkinson].
Chapter 30:-- She [Lady Catherine] sallied forth to scold them into harmony and plenty.
Chapter 31:-- Elizabeth: `You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy?'
Chapter 37:-- Lady Catherine: `I assure you, I feel it exceedingly.'
Chapter 43:-- The introduction, however, was immediately made.
Chapter 47:-- Jane: `I never saw any one so shocked.'
Chapter 51:-- She [Lydia] went after dinner to shew her ring, and boast of being married, to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.
Chapter 55:-- She [Elizabeth] perceived her sister and Bingley standing together.
Chapter 56:-- Lady Catherine: `Miss Bennet, I insist on being satisfied.'
Chapter 60:-- He [Darcy] could even listen to Sir William Lucas.")
Can anyone fill me in on the "Found Family is such a trope" backlash im seeing in book reviews & discussions?
Asking for someone whose family of origin are MAGA & so I live a solitary, recluse existence.
Anns gach gnìomh a nì duine ’s mór urram nan gàidheal: Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir as the Voice of the Gael’s Military Masculinity in the 18th Century
—Liesbeth Van Hulle, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies
4/4
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2022.0345?journalCode=jshs
How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…
Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation
Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem
3/4
“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”
—Meg Bateman introduces Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, by Garry MacKenzie, (Irish Pages Press/Cló An Mhíl Bhuí, 2021)
2/4
https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=7885444af42e
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”
https://lithub.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman-on-why-she-wrote-the-yellow-wallpaper/
The Yellow Wallpaper at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1952
#OTD in 1885.
Bolesław Prus's, The Outpost, begins serialization in the Polish illustrated weekly, Wędrowiec.
Its specificity was influenced by two trends: naturalism and realism. The main themes of the work are German colonization in Polish lands, a study of the life of the peasant in the 2nd half of the 19th century and his struggle to keep the land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outpost_(Prus_novel)
Bolesław Prus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25958
Scots Whay Hae!: Karen Campbell, This Bright Life
Alistair Braidwood speaks with Karen Campbell about her latest novel THIS BRIGHT LIFE, published later this month by @canongatebooks
They also discuss other Scottish novels, Lewis Grassic Gibbon & Hugh MacDiarmid, & the notable impact of, & response to, Campbell’s 2022 novel PAPER CUP.
If you are involved in any way in helping to organize a conference in the US at this time, it is imperative that you offer online attendance and speaker options.
And not just because it's the right thing to do for environmental and accessibility reasons (but you should do it for those reasons, anyway).
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Pt. I, ch. 1
#OTD in 1873.
Leo Tolstoy begins his novel Anna Karenina, which is serialized in Russkiy Vestnik (Moscow) between 1873 and 1877, but the last part appearing in the periodical The Russian Messenger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina
Anna Karenina at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399
"The strong man is strongest when alone."
Tell, Act I, sc. iii
#OTD in 1804.
The first performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell takes place at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell_(play)
William Tell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2782
Yesterday I read about Japan's sidewalks producing electricity through people walking on their tiles.
I was certain I read about it before and indeed, the French author Alphonse Allais had already thought of sidewalks using people's steps to produce electricity... in 1896!
Actually this guy predicted a number of future technology, always as a joke.
One more proof that science is nothing without imagination (and humor).
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/12/21/editorials/walking-the-body-electric/
Beyond “Dickensian”: 7 Quirky Words Created by Charles Dickens
https://wordsmarts.com/dickensian-words/
Charles Dickens at PG
"Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de toutes les clochés sonnant à grande volée dans la triple enceinte de la Cité, de l'Université et de la Ville."
#OTD in 1831.
Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is published by Gosselin in Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame de Paris at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
#OTD in 1850.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published by William Ticknor and James T. Fields in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is set. It sells 2,500 copies in ten days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter
The Scarlett Letter at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/33
The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years
The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.
by Constance Grady
https://www.vox.com/culture/402406/great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald-centennial-100
The Great Gatsby at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317
#OTD in 1773.
Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/383
"Ce n'est pas une cause
Que j'attaque ou que je défends
Et ceci n'est pas autre chose
Que l'histoire d'un pauvre enfant."
#OTD in 1900.
Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand's l'Aiglon. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aiglon
L´Aiglon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66793
#OTD in 1920.
The Blue Flame, a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the central character of a vamp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Flame_(play)
George V. Hobart at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4454
