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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 20 May 2002 to 21 May 2002 (#2002-141)
There are 16 messages totalling 480 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Bedford Park Gazette (2)
2. Stabbing (2)
3. statutes
4. Deconstructing gentlemanliness
5. stabbings (2)
6. Indians visiting Britain c.1886 (3)
7. Tennyson and the United States
8. Grahame's ledger
9. Beatrix Potter: June Meeting of the 1890s Society
10. APHA-NY Lecture 3 June: Michael Twyman at The Grolier Club
11. Censorship of Nightingale's Manuscript
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:03:13 +0100
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bedford Park Gazette
Hi!
Eileen asked:
> Does
> anyone know where I might find copies of the Bedford Park Gazette, a
> newspaper published by the inhabitants (I think) of Bedford Park,
> Chiswick, in the 1880s?
Have you looked in the Newspaper Library catalogue at
http://prodigi.bl.uk/nlcat/ ? (Apologies if you've done this already)
Otherwise, local archives in or near Chiswick would probably be the
likeliest place. The local public library and/or town hall should be able
to tell you the location and opening hours.
All the best
Chris
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:48:16 GMT
From: Lesley Hall <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bedford Park Gazette
> Hi!
> Otherwise, local archives in or near Chiswick would
probably be the
> likeliest place. The local public library and/or
town hall should be able
> to tell you the location and opening hours.
Newspapers are not, usually, archives (comment from
professional archivist who finds that people tend to
describe any primary source, even published books and
journals created prior to a certain date as an
archive...). The relevant local studies library should
be Hounslow Public Libraries, Chiswick Reference
Library Dukes Avenue London W4 2AB England Tel (44)
(0) 20 8994 1008
Lesley Hall
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:49:14 +0100
From: Andrew Mangham <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Stabbing
Two examples spring to mind; There is a glut of stabbing in _A Tale of Two
Cities_ the most interesting being the slaying of the governor of the
Bastille by Madame Defage and then in the little known novel _A Child of the
Jago_ by Arthur Morrison, a shopkeeper has his throat cut and the main
character Dickie is later stabbed an killed in a London riot.
Best,
Andrew Mangham
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:10:56 +0100
From: Tony Ward <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Stabbing
A stabbing case that was quite famous at the time was the murder of a famous
actor named Terriss by bit-part player named Prince, who held Teriss
responsible for his lack of success. Prince was, controversially, found
guilty but insane, although the jury found that "he knew what he was doing
and to whom he was doing it" when he stabbed Terriss after laying in wait
for him outside the stage door. There was supposedly a legend for many years
about Terriss's ghost haunting the theatre. You can find the case in The
Times, 14 Jan 1898, p. 5 and the Old Bailey Sessions Papers (3rd Sess.,
1898, p. 165).
Dr Tony Ward
Principal Lecturer in Law
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
Tel. 0116 207 8181
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:19:55 -0700
From: "Anthony S. Wohl" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: statutes
In response to Chris Willis's query about legislation. Yes,
Statutes of the Realm is the complete listing, but I wonder if it
might be worth looking at the Annual Register (now on line, I
believe). I haven't done so for many years, but if memory serves its
political section mentions at least the most important legislation of
the year, and it is a font of information on a great variety of other
happenings, national, international, cultural, etc.
Tony Wohl
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Anthony S. Wohl
Eloise Ellery Professor of History
Maildrop 490
Vassar College
Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0490
Home phone: 845-452-8669
http://faculty.vassar.edu/~wohl/index.html
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:16:55 -0400
From: Lowell Frye <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Deconstructing gentlemanliness
Shirley Robin Letwin's _The Gentleman in Trollope_ (1982) is not only an
excellent study of Trollope but a wide-ranging study of the moral ideal of
the gentleman, an ideal from which a deconstruction of gentlemanliness
might well proceed.
Lowell T. Frye
Professor of Rhetoric & Humanities
Hampden-Sydney College
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:41:17 -0500
From: "Doris H. Meriwether" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: stabbings
I've forgot whether the query related to 19th C stabbings in both
literature and life or whether literary accounts of stabbings qualify
for consideration. Someone, in passing asked about Browning's "The Ring
and the Book," and if accounts in literature are of interest, then this
source is a treasure. In this account of a late 17th C case, an irate
husband, Guido, and a group of accomplices stab poor Pompilia, the
estranged wife, 22 times with a dagger after first stabbing her parents
(foster parents), Pietro and Violante, to death. Pompilia manages to
hang on to life for four days, long enough to reveal the murder.
Doris Meriwether
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:17:29 -0400
From: Herbert Tucker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: stabbings
Now we talk of Browning:
In his playwriting days he sought to interest his wavering patron Macready
in a letter that promised more of what the public would like, "stabbing and
drabbing" inter alia.
Near the close of "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" our paranoid
monologist hears the hills' incitement to violence: "'Now stab and end the
creature -- to the heft!'"
Shakespeare, I suppose, is the triangulation point for the above
texts. His immeasurable influence probably kept stabbing on the boards,
and the literary brain, well into the age of the pistol.
At 11:41 AM 5/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
> I've forgot whether the query related to 19th C stabbings in both
> literature and life or whether literary accounts of stabbings qualify
> for consideration. Someone, in passing asked about Browning's "The Ring
> and the Book," and if accounts in literature are of interest, then this
> source is a treasure. In this account of a late 17th C case, an irate
> husband, Guido, and a group of accomplices stab poor Pompilia, the
> estranged wife, 22 times with a dagger after first stabbing her parents
> (foster parents), Pietro and Violante, to death. Pompilia manages to
> hang on to life for four days, long enough to reveal the murder.
>
> Doris Meriwether
Herbert Tucker
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University of Virginia 22904-4121
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 19:09:03 +0100
From: bethan richards <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Indians visiting Britain c.1886
Hello - I'm interested to know if any list members could direct me towards
reports, recollections, observations made by Indian people who visited the
Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886.'A Visit to Europe' by T.
N. Mukharji has proved extremely interesting and I'm curious to find out
about the ways in which other Indian visitors responded to the exhibition.
Any suggestions about where I may find this kind of thing would be very much
appreciated!
Bethan Richards
Birkbeck College, London.
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 17:57:00 +0100
From: Albert Purbrick <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Tennyson and the United States
A friend is preparing a paper on the "influence of the young Tennyson" on
American culture. Tennyson wasn't published in the US until 1842. Any
references will be passed on gratefully. Thank you.
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Albert Purbrick
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1 St Johns Avenue
London SW15 2AL, England
Tel: 020 8 789 1433
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:30:37 -0400
From: Jordanna Bailkin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Indians visiting Britain c.1886
Dear Bethan,
Antoinette Burton's _At The Heart of the Empire_ should be a useful source
for you.
Best wishes,
Jordanna
Jordanna Bailkin
History Department
University of Washington
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 17:48:06 -0400
From: Kristan Tetens <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Indians visiting Britain c.1886
Speaking as someone who has spent many hours tracking down individual
responses to similar events, I can tell you that there are very few
research short-cuts available.
The bibliography of Antoinette Burton's "At the Heart of the Empire" is a
good place to start, as is Peter Hoffenberg's new book, "An Empire on
Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal
Palace to the Great War." Neither will provide you with the fugitive
first-person recollections you're looking for, but they'll steer you to
promising resources that you will have to mine yourself.
I would highly recommend consulting with the staff of the Oriental and
India Office Collection at the British Library. They can direct you to
newspapers and periodicals (both English and Indian) that would contain
accounts of this event...including, with any luck, the names of prominent
visitors. (There's an unpublished hand list of these papers.) Armed with
names, you can do further research to track down diaries, letters, etc that
may contain responses to the event. If my own experience is any measure,
this is tedious, hit-or-miss kind of work (but exceptionally rewarding when
you *do* strike gold). I would think that accounts of the opening of the
exhibition would provide a veritable "hit list" of distinguished Indian
guests for you to check out. (The usual caveats about using newspapers and
periodicals as historical sources apply.)
Also, check the archives (if available) of the organization that sponsored
the exhibition. Was the India Office involved, or was this primarily a
commercial enterprise? If the India Office facilitated the event, the OIOC
would be able to direct you to material in their collection that may
contain names you would find useful. (If you're interested in the responses
of those from other parts of the empire, you might want to check Colonial
Office records at the Public Records Office.)
One more suggestion...be sure to check indexes to UK, American, and Indian
dissertations. Given recent interest in Victorian domestic encounters with
the empire's "Others," I think it likely that someone somewhere has done
spadework already.
Kristan Tetens
Michigan State University
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:48:32 +0100
From: Valerie Gorman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Grahame's ledger
In Patrick Chalmer's 1933 bio of Kenneth Grahame, he talks about a Bank of
England ledger that Grahame used to write in and even includes some of the
entries. Between that bio and Peter Green's 1952 bio, the ledger
disappeared. And of course I would dearly love to find it and bring it back
to the light of day.
Does anyone on the list have any suggestions about where one might begin a
hunt for the missing ledger?
Valerie Gorman
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:46:59 EDT
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Beatrix Potter: June Meeting of the 1890s Society
[Please forgive cross-posting]
The Eighteen Nineties Society is pleased to announce its June meeting:
BEATRIX POTTER
Wednesday, 12 June
6.30 pm
Wyntr Room, Swedenborg House
20-21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
"Beatrix Potter and Aestheticism"
Margaret D. Stetz
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies
Georgetown University
"Peter Rabbit on East 60th Street"
Mark Samuels Lasner
Visiting Scholar
University of Delaware Library
Members and non-members are welcome at the Society's meetings. Admission is
free.
Founded in 1963 to bring together admirers of the work of Francis Thompson,
the Eighteen Nineties Society widened its scope in 1972 to embrace the
entire artistic and literary scene of the most vibrant decade of
Impressionism, Realism, Decadence, Symbolism, Naturalism, and of
achievement in the arts, including theater and book production.
The Society holds regular meetings, organizes exhibitions, and issues
publications--an annual Journal, the quarterly Keynotes newsletter, and
books and pamphlets.
Membership is open to all worldwide who share the Society's interests.
For additional information go to www.1890s.org or contact the Secretary and
Treasurer of the Society, Steven Halliwell,
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:28:50 EDT
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Subject: APHA-NY Lecture 3 June: Michael Twyman at The Grolier Club
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The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce the
following event:
"Charles Joseph Hullmandel: Lithographic Printer Extraordinary"
A lecture by MICHAEL TWYMAN
Monday, 3 June 2002, 6 p.m.
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street, New York
Michael Twyman is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Typography and
Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. A faculty member at the
University of Virginia's Rare Book School, he has lectured and written
extensively on the history of printing, lithography, and ephemera. The
author of John Soulby, Printer (1966), Printing 1770-1970 (1970), The
British Library Guide to Printing: History and Techniques (1998),
Lithography 1800-1850 (1970), Early Lithographed Books (1990), and Early
Lithographed Music (1996), Professor Twyman recently completed and edited
Maurice Rickards's The Encyclopedia of Ephemera (2000). In this illustrated
lecture, he will discuss the work of Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850),
the author of The Art of Drawing on Stone (1824) and the premier
practitioner of lithography in Britain from 1819 to his death.
Co-sponsored by APHA and The Grolier Club. Free and open to the public.
This lecture is part of APHA's "On the Road" series of national events. For
details of other activities and for information about APHA, visit our
website: www.printinghistory.org or write to APHA, P.O. Box 4922, Grand
Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163.
Mark Samuels Lasner
Vice-President for Programs
American Printing History Association
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:11:30 EDT
From: "[Anne Miles]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Censorship of Nightingale's Manuscript
I am interested in the Victorian censorship of Florence Nightingale's
manuscript"Suggestions for Thought to Searchers After Religious Truth". I
understand that it is kept in the British Library but I am unclear whether
this is only the final heavily revised and modified version or whether there
are several versions kept which illustrate the original uncensored
manuscript and gradual modifications. If there are several versions
available, is it possible to view them outside of the confines of the
Library? I live in Queensland, Australia and it's a long way to go! I
believe the most that I can get hold of is a photocopy of Vol.2, published
1860.(Control
no.U100267496. Shelfmark X17/3673).
Any help would be most welcome.
Anne Miles.
Undergraduate. University of Queensland.
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