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Profesional Jelousy, 1947 by Joanne Pemberton-Longman (English, 1918–1973)

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Introducing: Moth to a Flame, the final book in my trilogy about a traumatised teenage assassin trying (and mostly failing) to live a normal life in a fictional closed city in Yorkshire. And also in Leeds, as this graphic suggests 😆 Sorry, that's sort of a spoiler for THK...

I figured I'd give you all three of these graphics so you can get a sense of the overall vibes of the trilogy. And so you know why I'm still using this overly cutesy font, because 2022!me made this decision and I guess I'm sticking with it. I know most people use these graphics to label tropes you'll find in the book, but aside from "found family", I'm not sure any of these really count as tropes. (New trope: Yorkshire?) You can also tell I've been getting steadily worse at marketing since 2022. Or maybe better. Who's to say, really.

(Yes, it does annoy me that the arrows for book one go in the opposite direction. No, not enough to re-make the whole thing.)

And if you're wondering what constitutes "considerably less murder"... I tried to track the body count of THK, and lost count at around 50. MTAF, by contrast, has, like ... 3 murders? Very different vibe. THK was when I broke everything and MTAF is where I slowly start putting it back together. This is the Bucky Barnes Recovery Fic of the series. We're talking grief, grappling with trauma, learning to be a person again, finding solidarity with others who've been messed up by the military and the arms industry, possibly joining a support group full of gay communists, and ultimately, realising that sometimes it's not enough to escape, because the whole system needs to be dismantled to stop it from hurting anyone else. I'm terrified no one will like it because they're here for the violence, but it was important to me to write it this way.

It's coming in May! You can preorder it now! And if you haven't read the first two books, you've got a perfect amount of time to buy and read those ahead of book 3's release to minimise cliffhanger agony.

Also: it still contains Esperanto, street art, no romance, an aroace protagonist, and bad life choices. I just figured those were a given at this point and didn't put them on the graphic.

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Andrew Lang Fairy Stories

With this semester - and my internship - coming to a close, I wanted to hop back into my wheelhouse for the remainder of my time in Special Collections.

The Elf Maiden: And Other Stories is a collection of eleven tales edited by Scottish poet and novelist Andrew Lang (1844-1912) and illustrated by Henry J. Ford (1860-1941). The book was first published in London and New York by Longmans, Green, & Co. in 1906. The stories in this edition first appeared in three of Lang’s popular “Coloured" Fairy Books:  The Yellow Fairy Book (1894), The Pink Fairy Book (1897), and the The Brown Fairy Book (1904). Lang’s Fairy Books were a series of 24 children’s fairy tales, the most popular being the 12 Coloured" Fairy Books, that Lang’s wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851-1933) helped collaborate and translate.

Lang was considered to be one of the most versatile writers of his time. While he was a poet, historian, journalist, and critic, he was best known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. Lang took an interest in folklore at a young age; he read John Ferguson McLennan before going to Oxford and was heavily influenced by Edward Burnett Tylor. 

Henry J. Ford was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator. While he began exhibiting with historically-themed paintings and beautiful landscapes at the Royal Academy of Art in 1982, it was his contributions to illustrated books that raised him to fame. I was excited to find that he was most famous for the illustrations he provided for Lang’s popular Fairy Books, which captivated an entire generation of children in Britain; these books saw translations and republications during the 1880’s and 1890’s.

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-- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

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Evelyn Beatrice Longman

L'Amour, 1915

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Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2023!

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Running from February 19-25, 2023, this week we’re celebrating aromantic rep, so check out these titles! (Representation is included/highlighted with each title, where I know it.) As usual, all links are affiliate and earn a percentage of income for the site, so please use them if you can! Please note this roundup only features titles that were not…

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Spirit of Communication (Evelyn Beatrice Longman, 1914)

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I'm cataloguing books for this archival volunteering I'm doing and I have to record the publishers. For one book from 1825 I read off the title page and it says the publishers are "Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green" and then I go into the spreadsheet we're storing the information in and it automatically recommends "Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green". So I search for this in the spreadsheet and it turns out that book was published in 1831. What happened to Hurst?

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It's a gradual abandonment, leaving behind her name and her self. Each step stitches the thread of her footprints into the black seam of the unlit tunnel, binding her to the earth.

Moth to a Flame, Finn Longman

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You gotta admit, they look pretty good together.

This is my YA trilogy about a traumatised teenage assassin trying and failing to live a normal life in a fictional closed city in Yorkshire. If you've been looking for YA with no romance, morally ambiguous (or outright terrible) characters, tons of murder, revolutionary librarians, poison, Esperanto, loving descriptions of street art, and varying degrees of critique of the military and the arms industry (from subtle to overt as the trilogy continues), then this might be the series for you. The Butterfly Assassin and The Hummingbird Killer are out now; Moth to a Flame will be released on 23rd May. Full details of all of them are on my website.

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Shakespeare Weekend

Fools and clowns were common characters within Shakespeare’s plays. They often provided comic relief, but also contained enough depth to speak on themes of “love, psychic turmoil, and identity.” British antiquary and museum curator Francis Douce (1757-1834) explored the Shakespearean fool in Volume Two of Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of ancient manners: with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare through his Dissertation on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare.  

Douce classifies Shakespeare’s clowns and fools into nine categories: the general domestic fool, the clown, the female fool, the city or corporation fool, tavern fools, the fool of the ancient theatrical mysteries and moralities, the fool in the old dumb shows exhibited at fairs and perhaps at inns, the fool in the Whitsun ales and Morris dance, and the mountebank’s fool. He goes on to discuss in detail the costumes, characteristics, and accessories of the clowns and fools including exemplifying woodcut engravings by British artist John Berryman (1778-1840).  

Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of ancient manners: with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare was published in 1807 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme in London and is known as a historical work of Shakespeare criticism.

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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Evelyn Beatrice Longman

L'Amour, 1915

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So, I have finished reading The Hummingbird Killer by Finn Longman. It was far more than I had any right to expect and I am eagerly awaiting book three from my local library. I reeeeally hope it isn't much longer.

If you enjoy spy / assassin / criminal organisation fiction, I can heartily commend these to you.

Just be aware, it carries a content warning.