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There are 16 messages totalling 486 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. C. Rossetti Prose
2. food adulteration (3)
3. Agnes Grey (3)
4. food adulteration (the Lancet)
5. quotation from H. Rider Haggard
6. Eliza Lynn Linton: "On the Side of the Maids" (2)
7. Braddon Conference - London - 30 March 2004
8. "On the Side of the Mistresses"
9. obscurer and obscurer
10. First Full Biography of Fossil Hunter Mary Anning, 1799-1847
11. adulterated food
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:21:19 EST
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: C. Rossetti Prose
Regarding the inquiry on C. Rossetti's devotional and exegetical prose:
there is a new edition (multi-volume) coming out from a person called
Keaton; I believe it's from Thoemmes Press. Selections have been available
thus far in the Kent/Stanwood edition of 1998.
On criticism, Lynda Palazzo's recent Palgrave book on the feminist theology
of CR's prose is excellent. I highly recommend it. It contains a good
bibliography. I have also written on the prose in a couple of different
venues.
Good wishes,
FR
Frederick Roden
Assistant Professor, English
University of Connecticut
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:52:17 GMT
From: Lesley Hall <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: food adulteration
> a paper called the Lancet
This was the pioneering medical journal set up by
Thomas Wakeley. It's now available online via Science
Direct.com but only by subscription or in libraries
which have one.
Lesley Hall
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 04:59:12 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Agnes Grey
Inspired by Listmembers' enthusiasm for _Agnes Grey_, I've decided to teach
it. I'm on a tight book-ordering clock (i.e., I should have done this
weeks ago!) and don't have time to compare editions. Do you have
recommendations about the best edition to use, based on accuracy of the
text, user-friendliness for undergrads, etc.?
Thanks in advance,
Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:20:56 -0000
From: Valerie Gorman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: food adulteration (the Lancet)
You can find out if there are articles of interest covering your topic by
looking at the National Library of Medicine website
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nlmhome-text.html
Or if you prefer a printed source for the same information, you can look in
the Index Medicus.
Valerie Gorman
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:03:04 -0000
From: Malcolm Shifrin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: food adulteration
I seem to recall that one of the reasons the Rochdale Pioneeers set up =
their co-operative shop was to counter the supply of adulterated food. I =
can't remember where I found this but I imagine most histories of the =
co-operative movement would give you more information on this aspect of =
the subject. I think that the village shop in Robert Owen's New Lanark =
was set up with this also as one of its main objectives. Perhaps someone =
more into this area could elaborate.
Malcolm
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Subject: Re: food adulteration
> a paper called the Lancet
This was the pioneering medical journal set up by
Thomas Wakeley. It's now available online via Science
Direct.com but only by subscription or in libraries
which have one.
Lesley Hall
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:38:17 -0500
From: "Deborah D. Morse" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Agnes Grey
I've always used the Penguin Classics (1988), with a good intro by Angeline
Goreau. The Everyman (1997), with an intro by Anne Smith, is also good,
and is published with Anne's poems, selected by Juliet R.V. Barker. I'm
not certain this edition is still in print, however.
Best wishes,
Deborah Denenholz Morse
The College of William and Mary
At 04:59 AM 3/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> Inspired by Listmembers' enthusiasm for _Agnes Grey_, I've decided to
> teach it. I'm on a tight book-ordering clock (i.e., I should have done
> this weeks ago!) and don't have time to compare editions. Do you have
> recommendations about the best edition to use, based on accuracy of the
> text, user-friendliness for undergrads, etc.?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:18:03 -0000
From: k eldron <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: quotation from H. Rider Haggard
James has clealy read more Rider Haggard than "She" - his misquotation seems
to be a conflation of The Squall chapter already mentioned and the following
exchange from "Eric Brighteyes":
"I have thought much and overmuch," answered the Earl, stroking his grey
beard; "but ships old and new drive before a gale."
"Ay, Atli, and the new ship rides, where the old one founders."
One can see the appeal of this image to a teenaged boy with a tyrannical
father. Another example of Woolf's "subtle humor"?
K Eldron
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:44:09 -0500
From: Kate Lawson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Eliza Lynn Linton: "On the Side of the Maids"
The Victorian Web site lists "On the Side of the Maids" (Cornhill Magazine
1874) and an article rebutting it, "On the Side of the Mistresses" as both,
possibly, by Eliza Lynn Linton, though the former is signed "E.L.L." and the
latter is signed "A Suffering Mistress."
Was it common for periodical writers to generate controversy by publishing,
anonymously, a rebuttal to their own argument? Or is simply ELL's method?
Do we know which side of the argument she really supported?
Kate Lawson
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
(519) 885-1211 ext. 3965
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:51:13 -0600
From: Cecile Kandl <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Agnes Grey
I have used the Oxford World's Classics (1988) for a Women and
Literature class and found it worked quite well. It is a rather slim
volume. Slim look = less intimidation.
Best,
Cecile Kandl
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:07:39 -0000
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Braddon Conference - London - 30 March 2004
(Apologies for cross-posting)
THE SENSATIONAL MISS BRADDON
Conference - Richmond, London 30 March.
Includes a visit to the Braddon exhibition, which features newly-discovered
Braddon manuscripts and photographs, and material from three private
collections.
These are the only Braddon manuscripts currently on view in Britain - the
rest are in the USA and Australia, so if you're in the UK, see them while
you've got chance!
Speakers: Jennifer Carnell, Matthew Sweet, Gabrielle Malcolm, Kate Mattacks
Academic Co-ordinator: Chris Willis
Details and booking form:
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eradicated by making the world a place free of grievances, something that
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:42:17 -0000
From: Malcolm Shifrin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Eliza Lynn Linton: "On the Side of the Maids"
> Was it common for periodical writers to generate controversy by =
publishing,
> anonymously, a rebuttal to their own argument? Or is simply ELL's =
method? Do
> we know which side of the argument she really supported?
I don't know whether this was a common practice in periodicals, but it =
was certainly not unknown for political groups to do so in newspapers.
Charles Bartholomew, in a letter to David Urquhart dated 29 March 1856 =
(and later published in the Free Press) wrote:
'Now, sir, I will tell you of a plan I have adopted to save
advertising in the papers. I send a long letter to one of our MPs
on the Turkish and Danish treaties, and out of the letter I hope
to get a long correspondence, and a few days before our meeting
get this correspondence put in the papers. The effect will be,
that everyone will read it ten times more than if it was an
advertisement, and everybody will know what the meeting is
about.'
Bartholomew, a self-educated farm labourer's son, was later to adopt =
this type of approach when announcing public meetings in towns where he =
was considering the possibility of opening a Turkish bath. In this way =
he tested the waters, as it were, before deciding whether, as at Neath, =
to go ahead, or as at Oxford, not to go ahead. He died leaving a chain =
of seven successful establishments in 1889.
Hope this is not too unrelated to your query.
Malcolm
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:47:58 -0500
From: "Eileen M. Curran" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: "On the Side of the Mistresses"
Kate--
According to the Wellesley Index, on the authority of the publisher's
(Smith, Elder's) records, "On the side of the mistresses" (Cornhill 29
[Apr. 1874], 459-468), though signed "A Suffering Mistress," was by John
Moore Capes (1812- 1889).
Question therefore is not whether it was common for writers to argue both
sides of a question, but whether one can trust pseudonyms to give any hint
of a writer's identity.
Eileen
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:01:54 -0000
From: Susan Hoyle <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: obscurer and obscurer
Thank you very much to everyone who identified the lines as from Robert
Burns' "On Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland."
Susan
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:43:59 -0500
From: Tara McGann <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: food adulteration
Another secondary source is G.R. Searle's The Market and Morality in
Victorian England (or something very close to that title.)
Tara
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 21:13:17 -0500
From: Goodhue <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: First Full Biography of Fossil Hunter Mary Anning, 1799-1847
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Many thanks to all of you on the list who have helped in innumerable ways
with my research on my biography of Mary Anning (Lyme rEgis, 1799-1847).
Here's the press release about the longer bio of her.
Tom Goodhue
LONG ISLANDER PUBLISHES BOOK ON PIONEER FOSSIL-HUNTER
She touched off fossil-hunting mania around the world while still a
young woman, but many people have never even heard of her. So observes
Thomas W. Goodhue, whose book "Fossil Hunter: The Life and Times of Mary
Anning, 1799-1847" (Academica Press, $39.95, including tax and shipping),
the first full biography of this remarkable woman, has just been published.
Anning began searching for fossils as a child, found the first complete
skeleton of a prehistoric swimming reptile when she was a teenager. She was
poor but formed friendships with wealthy collectors. Uneducated, she made
discoveries that influenced the development of geology, paleontology, and
biology. Unable to vote herself, she helped bring down the corrupt
political machine that had dominated her town for decades. She was deeply
pious, but her work disturbed the beliefs of millions of people and
provided raw material for Charles Darwin's unsettling theory of evolution.
"Fossil Hunter" includes an index, a twenty-two page bibliography and
614 endnotes. "Her life is a great story nearly anyone might enjoy reading,"
Goodhue explains, "but I also want this book to be helpful to scholars and
serious students."
Goodhue, began researching this scientific pioneer while teaching
four-year-olds and kindergartners at the Riverside Church Weekday School in
Manhattan. "There were dozens of books for young children about prehistoric
creatures," he explains, "but none about any female paleontologists."
Unable to find an account of her life for his students, he began writing
one himself. Her personal life, he quickly learned, was as amazing as the
creatures she unearthed. Many Christians continue to reject evolution,
notes Goodhue, a United Methodist clergyman who now heads the Long Island
Council of Churches, but he adds that it was Anning's faith that allowed
her to do the difficult, dangerous work of scaling crumbling cliffs in
search of fossils. "I've always been interested in both science and
religion, and Mary Anning's life shows how complex this relationship is.
Her faith helped her to do scientific work that created a faith crisis for
millions of people."
Goodhue's fascination with Anning, he confesses, turned into
something of an obsession.. He wrote a brief sketch of her life for the
teachers' magazine "Instructor" and then included a children's sermon about
her in his collection of stories for the Franciscans,"Sharing the Good News
with Children." Two research trips to England followed and numerous
articles about her religious life for Episcopal publications in the U.S.,
Canada, and Britain, plus an essay for "Northeastern Environmental &
Geological Sciences" and invitations to speak at scholarly conferences in
the U.S. and England. A year and a half ago, Morgan Reynolds published
Goodhue's short biography of Anning, "Curious Bones: Mary Anning and the
Birth of Paleontology," which last March was named one of the best books
for teenagers by the New York Public Library. He is now completely an essay
for the British science journal "Endeavour" on Anning's religious thoughts.
"Fossil Hunter: The Life and Times of Mary Anning, 1799-1847" can
ordered through Books International ([log in to unmask] or 703-661-1500).
For further information, contact
Tom Goodhue
Long Island Council of Churches
516-565-0290, ext. 206
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or
Dr. Robert West
Academica Press
202-388-1800
www.academicapress.com
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:43:40 -0600
From: Elizabeth Garver <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: adulterated food
You might also try:
John Burnett, "Plenty & Want: A Social History of Diet in England from 1815
to the Present Day," (London, 1979).
Chapter 5 is entitled, "Food Adulteration."
Elizabeth L. Garver
Intern
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
The University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Drawer 7219 Austin, TX 78713-7219
Phone: (512) 471-9119 Fax: (512) 471-2899
Email: [log in to unmask]
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