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This March, BBC is reading a long-lost gothic thriller from Louisa May Alcott's flop era! Rejected for being "too sensational," this tale of intercontinental stalking, secret identities, literal cliffhangers, and sexy priests wasn't published until 1995—and now, like a virtuous maiden we've trapped on a yacht, it is OURS, ALL OURS! 🪦🥀
Discord discussion: Monday 03/18 8 PM EST | Tuesday 18/03 11 AM AEST
See you there!
Bella’s Book Club is an interactive virtual book club created by the Three Books One Plot podcast. Our monthly Discord discussions are open to all! More info here.
#official™ announcements#a long fatal love chase#the chase#fair rosamond#louisa may alcott#march '24 book#booklr#book club#bookblr#note that this one might be hard to find! DM a mod if you can't find a copy#see @volturialice via DM if you'd like content warnings#the big ones include gaslighting + abuse + period-typical racism
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one thing about me is that if a victorian novel contains a duplicitous slut, i will be on her side 100%, even if i have to fight the author to do it
#annabella wilmot (the tenant of wildfell hall)#and rosamond vincy (middlemarch). i support you#eliot gives rosamond depth to be fair. but brontë does NOT give annabella the same grace
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John William Waterhouse - Fair Rosamond [1916]
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May 2023 Wrap Up
May ended up being a great month. My course wrapped up for the semester, and I continued to be very happy with my students. I went to the British Women Writers Conference at the University of Virginia, which was amazing. And now it's on to summer break!
Books Read: 5
And we go from 15 books last month to 5 books this month. Oh well. At least almost all of these were good (and even though So Happy For You wasn't, it at least entertained me for an afternoon). Mortal Follies was definitely my favorite of the month. Highly recommend!
So Happy For You by Celia Laskey - 1.5 stars
The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow & Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond by Margaret Oliphant - 4.5 stars
The Stolen Heir by Holly Black - 4.5 stars
Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market by Linda H. Peterson - 4 stars
Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall - 5 stars
On Tumblr:
There's not a whole lot here, but definitely check out the adorable card one of my students gave me. It's amazing!
April Wrap Up
A card from one of my Brit Lit students
Holly Black Poll
Tortall Poll
Selections for a Fairy Tale Course
On YouTube:
And there's a fair bit on here, as usual.
What I Read for #picturethis
What I'm Teaching in British Literature III: Modernism
April Wrap Up - 15 books!!!
My Brontë Book Collection
Currently Reading 5/15/23
Underrated Victorian Recommendations #6
June TBR
#booklr#may wrap up#monthly wrap up#books#book photography#wrap up#margaret oliphant#the mystery of mrs. blencarrow#holly black#the stolen heir#becoming a woman of letters#linda peterson
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Author: Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918
Historical Vignettes, 2nd Series by Bernard Capes
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70685
“Dead Man’s Plack”
Fair Rosamond
Maid Marian
Raleigh
Marlowe
Queen Elizabeth
Drake’s Chaplain
George Buchanan
The Lord Treasurer
The Princess Elizabeth
James II
The King’s Champion
George I
George III
The Hero of Waterloo
Beau Brummell
Paganini
Napoleon
Leonardo da Vinci
Wu Taotsz, the Celestial Painter
Cleopatra and the Decurion
The Galilean
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Holidays 4.3
Holidays
American Circus Day
American Creed Day
Armenian Appreciation Day
Corrupt Society Day
Day of the Bride (Argentina)
Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
A Drop of Water is a Grain of Gold
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day
Good Deeds Day
Independent Artist Day
International Day Against Victim Blaming
Jane Goodall Day (Los Angeles)
Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus; Japan)
Love A Muslim Day (UK)
National Chalk Day
National Film Score Day
National Grey Day
National Inspiring Joy Day
National Library Week begins
National Pac-Man Day
National Shoot Your Shot Day
Overcome a Handicap Day
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Peace Day (Angola)
Pony Express Day
Second Republic Day (Guinea)
TV Guide Day
Tweed Day
Weed Out Hate: Sow the Seeds of Greatness Day
World Aquatic Animal Day
World Cloud Security Day
World Party Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day
Fish Fingers and Custard Day
National Chocolate Mousse Day
1st Monday in April
National Bake Week begins [1st Monday]
National Fun Day [1st Monday]
Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]
School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]
Sweet Potato Day [1st Monday]
Tater Day (Kentucky) [1st Monday]
Independence Days
Declaration of the Second Republic (Guinea)
Malinovia (Declared 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agape, Chionia, and Irene (Christian; Martyrs)
Aristæus (Positivist; Saint)
Burgundofara (Christian; Saint)
Captain Cabbage (Muppetism)
Day of Sheela-Na-Gig (Pagan)
Doris Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of Pak Tai (Macau) [3rd Day of 3rd Lunar Month]
Goof Friday (Church of the SubGenius)
Holy Monday [6 Days before Easter]
Luigi Scrosoppi (Christian; Saint)
Nicetias (Christian; Saint)
Plato (Christian; Saint)
Proserpina’s Rise from the Underworld Day (Ancient Greece)
Richard of Chichester (Christian; Saint)
Seize a Sausage Day (Pastafarian)
Ulpin of Tyre (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sizdar-Bedah (Unlucky to stay indoors; Iran)
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Adventureland (Film; 2009)
Beethoven (Film; 1992)
The Druid of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1991)
Fast & Furious (Film; 2009) [F&F #4]
Furious 7 (Film; 2015) [F&F #7]
It Happened at the World’s Fair (Film; 1963)
It’s Now or Never, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1960)
The Long, Hot Summer (Film; 1958)
Louisiana Hayride (Radio Music Series; 1948)
Mercury Rising (Film; 1998)
My Hero Academia (Anime TV Series; 2016)
The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregor (Novel; 2008)
Piano Concerto in A Minor, by Edvard Grieg (Concerto; 1869)
Planet of the Apes (Film; 1968)
Planning for Good Eating (Disney Cartoon; 1946)
Rock-A-Doodle (Animated Film; 1992)
Rumple of the Bailey (UK TV Series; 1978)
The Sea-Wolf (Novel; 1904)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Film; 1968)
Today’s Name Days
Richard, Sixtus (Austria)
Radojko, Ratko, Rikard, Siksto (Croatia)
Richard (Czech Republic)
Nicæas (Denmark)
Uko, Uku (Estonia)
Sampo, Veeti (Finland)
Richard (France)
Irene, Lisa, Richard (Germany)
Illyria’s (Greece)
Buda, Richárd (Hungary)
Riccardo, Sisto (Italy)
Daira, Dairis, Ferdinands (Latvia)
Kristijonas, Ričardas, Rimtautė, Vytenis (Lithuania)
Gunnvald, Gunvor (Norway)
Antoni, Cieszygor, Jakub, Pankracy, Ryszard (Poland)
Nichita (Romania)
Richard (Slovakia)
Ricardo (Spain)
Ferdinand, Nanna (Sweden)
Dick, Dickson, Dix, Dixie, Dixon, Doris, Ricarda, Ricardo, Rich, Richard, Richelle, Richman, Rick, Rickey, Ricky, Rosamond, Rosamund, Ryan (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 93 of 2024; 272 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 14 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 16 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 12 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 12 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 2 Aqua; Twosday [2 of 30]
Julian: 21 March 2023
Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 9 Archimedes (4th Month) [Aristæus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 15 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 14 of 30)
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“Rush of storms of a leaf indeed: the quality”
A tricube sequence
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I said our follow swiftly tranquil
and allowed and, gather come. While. Which
in which chast that love, with Heaven’s me.
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Each the halls, perhaps churls, that she way,
and aves rough the fire? Rush of storms
of a leaf indeed: the quality.
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Now the United, embrace of spring.
Spread, nobility of thy could
shaggy satyrs and yet with us!
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Morning by a ring brance gave, is cruel
destinies. And chast looked so free from
silken the gentle breast to filled moon.
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About ye. You were all yet in his
dancing it well for whose name. When your
lived with many rate me wonder dumb.
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I’m o’er you like greeting to bleeding
to import for lofty treasure.
Alexis’ ashtray; the which in wise wit.
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No marble vigours be knows never
none, yet aliue art? But, as any words
made wards journers, when as a birth there.
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And every moon back my eyes that night
retired. Just an adjudges of Joy.
Fast she simple time. Though our heaven.
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Lay the lust? But where fools or us
someone within our sweet robes would not
seemed, as judgment Death and thou wait it.
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Maud in twain. Along prey: the accoste
doth beginningly, among that hangnail
its wound his Go to be!
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Oak trees, by body had adore the
laws through string, gave thee as I wanting
soul counted the tide him, grey churches.
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Your friend, as he image of their was
born worldly jars, The bodies, a voice,
and have on the whipping of power.
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Of his sometimes peace but recollect
some confound before unstrued my fate.
Perhaps there half-hid in trees that shrine.
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Upon a laugheth in my defence.
But go, and between may I, poor she
stoop to his is the left understands.
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There westermore furrows perish. Your
chil love as I gaed up. Much mountains;
lonely air. By this braced there is read.
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These dairy- maid expect, too, waiting
their joy? Diameter fire-driven,
that we wise me, beloved, to play.
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Mine owne fountains to marke how each other,
betwixt. A skylark does no more
would have some nae scant, and rolling race.
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Retire, and all that height turned to
train, comments the mind me never! My
spreads of worse from his day by love this.
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Of my sight. One is debt to learn to
kneel in lies, and are no buzzing would
sit and thy persuasions fair, some sea!
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We might, breath is, your sex aspires,
with avarice. But if a woman
one with sullied their strings which chased thee?
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You staying. Month to please: and their joy,
O joy, and God-filling. Often murder
a drops from you pleasure of light.
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And the flies were a wilds upon me.
From the rurall sing, and we are thou,
sad sound, which expect and bought nothing.
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Cliff-road and teach of roses and dreams,
and and sphere. Responds of sisters of
sea grove, for Stellas an hours, I will?
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Still my life at thy deep- damask’d within
the impart. Consume no tygres
kind; but promised by herself again?
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For ever thy name in that, thought, and
dumb orator. Turned as a thing endure
to time with feyned love sound shame.
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My father Rosamond peres some
his way? We text, text our trust to her
eye thy fancy to Heav’n, thought or mend!
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Dull feeble I to love melt that cheek
when I perched in while heart has burning
day. But crutches of his deadly fades.
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I’m flew round; that. Good vse infamy
is dreams on my though dull is to approve
her so my time serpent lightnings.
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No marriage. Dear that we have I can
quenched limbs still inuade me again;
nor long sing Content, might have o’t!
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For ear we spring? Her eye behold
on her shut up from the souls: nay, she
spirit’s not; save my hearts engages?
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Thus long and bear He folk prayers the
country in melodies, passion, while
thresht in my hearts. Of the top, he bills.
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Half-turn’d on with but a flitting nostrils
love. Cried:— My lady’s eyes. Then raise,
for used the reckles are, a man’s kiss.
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Not all. With the couple to accoste
does rifely blurt out my aching
out often to singular and one.
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For the north in our planets at thee
life is inest many woe, for should
be able love? Then framed, of heaven!
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Lie burn upon a man. Chastened before
up again, we two, I’m fear is
purchase, by Phœbe seen. That grasp’d herds’ cells.
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As equally to where in good, but
it’s worships, where his Saints,— I love with
the folk prayed. But thing when in the out.
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Make sweet: you have us weeping. So
am I bound, sitting gentlenesse
fit with the other, wander is crowned.
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Revived, comes your crimes, that vow’d to gloves
wound there lonely this come and all the
grasp at the Blood—Searchism in the war.
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To make the god, nor other the mother
in his prays that kiss, for Adonais!
But she sail; for me; knowing thus?
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With me, how he flown, and kind of Reuben?
The hill thy fame your did anguish
still returning fires and the towers.
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Was born by the spires of proue, since his
beautiful. But there, where neere, late by
the deadly o’erflow’ry robes but thee.
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Beauty Is Not Bound Give beauty all her right! She's not to one from tied; Each shape yields fair delight: Helen, I grant, might pleasing be, And Rosamond was as sweet as she. Some the quick eye commends, Some swelling lips and red; Pale looks have many friends, Through sacred sweetness bred: Meadows have flowers that pleasures move, Though roses are the flowers of love. Free beauty is not bound To one unmoved clime; She visits every ground And favours every time. Let the old loves with mine compare; My sovereign as sweet as fair. - Thomas Campion
Poems I like - #1
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Random Real Thoroughbred: KIRTLE
KIRTLE is a mare born in Great Britain in 1971. By NELCIUS out of FAIR ROSAMOND. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/kirtle6
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'My Rosamonde, my only Rose, That pleasest best mine eye, The fairest flower in all the worlde To feed my fantasye...
Fair Rosamund, anonymous old English poem
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Holidays 4.3
Holidays
American Circus Day
American Creed Day
Armenian Appreciation Day
Corrupt Society Day
Day of the Bride (Argentina)
Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
A Drop of Water is a Grain of Gold
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day
Good Deeds Day
Independent Artist Day
International Day Against Victim Blaming
Jane Goodall Day (Los Angeles)
Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus; Japan)
Love A Muslim Day (UK)
National Chalk Day
National Film Score Day
National Grey Day
National Inspiring Joy Day
National Library Week begins
National Pac-Man Day
National Shoot Your Shot Day
Overcome a Handicap Day
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Peace Day (Angola)
Pony Express Day
Second Republic Day (Guinea)
TV Guide Day
Tweed Day
Weed Out Hate: Sow the Seeds of Greatness Day
World Aquatic Animal Day
World Cloud Security Day
World Party Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day
Fish Fingers and Custard Day
National Chocolate Mousse Day
1st Monday in April
National Bake Week begins [1st Monday]
National Fun Day [1st Monday]
Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]
School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]
Sweet Potato Day [1st Monday]
Tater Day (Kentucky) [1st Monday]
Independence Days
Declaration of the Second Republic (Guinea)
Malinovia (Declared 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agape, Chionia, and Irene (Christian; Martyrs)
Aristæus (Positivist; Saint)
Burgundofara (Christian; Saint)
Captain Cabbage (Muppetism)
Day of Sheela-Na-Gig (Pagan)
Doris Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of Pak Tai (Macau) [3rd Day of 3rd Lunar Month]
Goof Friday (Church of the SubGenius)
Holy Monday [6 Days before Easter]
Luigi Scrosoppi (Christian; Saint)
Nicetias (Christian; Saint)
Plato (Christian; Saint)
Proserpina’s Rise from the Underworld Day (Ancient Greece)
Richard of Chichester (Christian; Saint)
Seize a Sausage Day (Pastafarian)
Ulpin of Tyre (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sizdar-Bedah (Unlucky to stay indoors; Iran)
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Adventureland (Film; 2009)
Beethoven (Film; 1992)
The Druid of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1991)
Fast & Furious (Film; 2009) [F&F #4]
Furious 7 (Film; 2015) [F&F #7]
It Happened at the World’s Fair (Film; 1963)
It’s Now or Never, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1960)
The Long, Hot Summer (Film; 1958)
Louisiana Hayride (Radio Music Series; 1948)
Mercury Rising (Film; 1998)
My Hero Academia (Anime TV Series; 2016)
The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregor (Novel; 2008)
Piano Concerto in A Minor, by Edvard Grieg (Concerto; 1869)
Planet of the Apes (Film; 1968)
Planning for Good Eating (Disney Cartoon; 1946)
Rock-A-Doodle (Animated Film; 1992)
Rumple of the Bailey (UK TV Series; 1978)
The Sea-Wolf (Novel; 1904)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Film; 1968)
Today’s Name Days
Richard, Sixtus (Austria)
Radojko, Ratko, Rikard, Siksto (Croatia)
Richard (Czech Republic)
Nicæas (Denmark)
Uko, Uku (Estonia)
Sampo, Veeti (Finland)
Richard (France)
Irene, Lisa, Richard (Germany)
Illyria’s (Greece)
Buda, Richárd (Hungary)
Riccardo, Sisto (Italy)
Daira, Dairis, Ferdinands (Latvia)
Kristijonas, Ričardas, Rimtautė, Vytenis (Lithuania)
Gunnvald, Gunvor (Norway)
Antoni, Cieszygor, Jakub, Pankracy, Ryszard (Poland)
Nichita (Romania)
Richard (Slovakia)
Ricardo (Spain)
Ferdinand, Nanna (Sweden)
Dick, Dickson, Dix, Dixie, Dixon, Doris, Ricarda, Ricardo, Rich, Richard, Richelle, Richman, Rick, Rickey, Ricky, Rosamond, Rosamund, Ryan (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 93 of 2024; 272 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 14 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 16 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 12 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 12 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 2 Aqua; Twosday [2 of 30]
Julian: 21 March 2023
Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 9 Archimedes (4th Month) [Aristæus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 15 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 14 of 30)
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FEATURING , JONATHAN ( @vaerdante )
business dinners, as it seemed to rosamond, were nothing more than a way to tastefully display procured wealth in such a manner that everyone who sat at the large bocote wood table should do nothing but smile and nod when appropriate. sitting across from her father’s peculiar company gave her the sensation of wearing a corset that was pulled tight by the cream colored ribbons until breathing became a chore — uncomfortable. she made little eye contact and took to fiddle the silver spoon around a bowl of soup in front of her while the man at the head of the table with a lawyer’s grin and a nice navy blue dinner suit told the tale of his origin story. both he thought to be rather impressive, both memories, despite how many times the former had been shared to present company alike. under her breath rosamond would recite the words along with him, the same tedious pauses to build up to the climax of a story which everyone sat in the outcome of. a grand house.
‘ don’t play with your food, ’ reached rosamond’s ear in a whisper-shout, the sort that all mothers specialized in through gritted teeth and a smile.
her mother, a rather friendly woman, held much of the same physical display of wealth that her husband, mr. irons, did. she was the sort who ran off to powder her nose in the bathroom by the hour and come back with something about the physical perfected that otherwise would have gone unnoticed throughout the evening. mrs. irons was also the sort to move perfectly polished silver just an inch to the right, less it be imperfectly aligned with the rest of the cutlery.
“ how does a theatre director end up living in such an expensive neighborhood? ” the wide eyes of her parents and the live-in chef looked to rose, mouths ajar. the fair-haired girl held herself the way one might expect, with a sense of defiance and a shrug as nonchalant as the way she reached for the lead crystal glass filled with a red liquid in front of her. “ since we are on the subject, ” rosamond pried innocently enough. she touched her lips to the edge of the glass and took a small sip of raspberry cordial. she glanced to her mother, her father and to the guest. “ i’d imagine a theatre in this town wouldn’t be sold out nightly. ”
#❛ ROSAMOND ⸺ 𝙰 𝚂𝙿𝙸���𝙳𝙻𝙴 𝚂𝙿𝙻𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳#❛ 𝙰 𝚂𝙿𝙸𝙽𝙳𝙻𝙴 𝚂𝙿𝙻𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳 ⸺ script .#vaerdante#apologies it's so long! i had to “ set the scene ”
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Fair Rosamond Alone in Her Bower (c.1853). William Bell Scott (British, 1811-1890). Oil on canvas. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
The medieval subject matter, intense detailing, bright jewel-like colours and rather flat, angular figure in this painting are typical of the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the early 1850s. Fair Rosamund was the mistress of Henry II. She was kept in secret bower in Woodstock only reachable by following a scarlet thread. Scott took great care to minutely record natural detail and historical costume, and packed the painting with symbolism suggesting the fate of poor Rosamund who is eventually found by Queen Eleanor and poisoned. The musical instrument alludes to love; the hour glass suggests that time is running out; the broken branch is suggestive of violence; and the collared dove chased by a kestrel points to her ensnarement.
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HMS Black Joke
To start with, this is a very sensitive subject, namely slavery. Now it is not about praising anyone, because no one should try to make themselves out to be a hero on this subject. after all, almost everyone had their fingers in this very disgusting business. But now some have recognised that this business is not a desirable one and banned it. Among them was the British Parliament in 1807, which created the West Africa Squadron in 1808 to hunt slavers.
Initially the unit was limited to intercepting British slave ships, fining them 100 pound for every slave found aboard, but it expanded to target slavers from other countries. The West Africa Squadron patrolled the 5000 km of the West African coast for 60 years and at its height accounted for 1/6 of the resources of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The squadron seized 1,600 vessels and liberated 150.000 slaves.
H.M. Brig Black Joke, tender to HMS Sybille and prizes, Spanish brig Providentia, Brazilian brig Vengador Buenos Ayrean privateer Presidente brigantine El Hassey Spanish brig El Almirante and brigantine Marianna, by Irwin Bevan (x)
One of the most successful ships was poacher- turned- gamekeeper HMS Black Joke, a brig. A 1827 captured slave ship, she had originally sailed under the name of Henrietta. With fair wind Black Joke was capable of overhauling the best on the coast and although only lightly armed she quickly became the scourge of the slavers.
Among Black Joke's most notable conquests was the Spanish brig el Almirante. The slaver was sighted on 1 February 1829 and although her quarry was vastly superior in size and arms Black Joke immediately gave chase. the winds were light and varibale and Black Joke had to resort to sweeps to close the gap. The chase lasted 11 hours under blazing sun and the light was fading as the desperate duel began. When the Spanish vessel finally surrendered it had 15 crewmembers dead and 13 wounded. Black Joke had suffered 6 wounded, two of whom later died. Over 450 slaves were found chained together in appaling conditions in the hold of El Almirante.
HMS Black Joke firing on the Spanish Slaver El Almirante, by Nicholas Matthew Condy (1816-1851) (x)
In one year alone Black Joke took 22 ships and liberated 7000 slaves. Sometimes she worked in tandem with other ship. In September 1831 she was sailing with the schooner HMS Fair Rosamond off the mouth of the Bonny River when they surprised two Spanish slavers. Recognising the Royal Navx ships the vessels fled back up the river and Black Joke and Fair Rosamond gave chase. As they were overhauled the Spanish began throwing slaves over the side. Some were chained together in pairs and quickly drowned Others tried to make for the shore but were attacked by sharks and torn to pieces. The 4 vessels crammed on all sail as they raced up the river. Eventually the slavers were captured and what remained of their sorry human cargo given their freedom. HMS Black Joke met an inglorious end in May 1832. Her timbers rotten, she was condemned by Admiralty surveyors and burnt.
There was a huge human cost for the men who served in the West Africa Squadron. Much of daily life was tedious and there was little chance of promotion as a result of a celebrated victory in a famous battle. Fever was rife and between 1830 and 1865 some 1600 men in the West Africa Squadron died. In one year about 25% of the officers and men died, a proportion 15 times higher that the navy had ever lost in wartime in any year.
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Depiction of Annie Rogers, who appears as Queen Eleanor and Mary Jackson, as Fair Rosamond, ca. 1862-1863
by Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
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Kate Eadie (British, 1880 - 1945), Fair Rosamond, 1920, watercolour.
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