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among the prince of dandies: lookin’ for homespun dignity
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Marriage as an “excellent mystery.” Both the Carlyle’s, despite their quirks and prejudices, were fond of entertaining newcomers. Since the publication of Sartor Resartus, Carlyle had become a literary lion, and Jane, for all … Continue reading
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Tagged Captain Rees Howell Gronow, Charles Dickens, Comte d'Orsay, Count d'Orsay, George Frederick Watts, Geraldine Jewsbury, Harriet Martineau, Jane and Thomas Carlyle marriage, Lady Ashburton, Leigh Hunt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir George Hayter, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus
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the odd couple: birds of a leather
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle…. …Jane whose character included a certain touch of masochism, held a certain profound relish for the domestic drama. She had thought of writing a novel, she admitted, about the “mysteries” of Number 6, her … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens John Forster, giuseppi mazzini, Godefroy Cavaignac, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, John Forster biographer, John Stuart Mill, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, madame pckwick art blog, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marianne Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Greaves
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odd couple: “excellent mystery”
Marriage is sometimes described in prayer books as an “excellent mystery”; something that cannot help but stimulate the imagination. Every marriage, union, is slightly mysterious , whether the partnership succeeds or fails. There is usually something that escapes analysis. There … Continue reading
lost manuscript: searching with the rag pickers
There have been some famous lost manuscripts in the history of literature. There was Hemingway’s lost suitcase,Malcolm Lowry’s manuscript draft of Ballast to the White Sea was lost to fire in his shack near Vancouver, Plath’s 130 page draft of … Continue reading
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getting your irish up: the bog trotters
In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and give some form of reasoning behind their oppression and general use . This is not unfamiliar to most Americans as … Continue reading
castles of the imagination: architecture of the mind
Some great buildings are never built. It’s imaginary architecture. Painters over the centuries have conjured up fantastic towers, and refined and elegant mansions of the imagination. This is often a dream architecture that is occasionally gaudy, often improbable and almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Aisling Campbell, Ambroglio Lorenzetti, Carpaccio, Charles Darwin, International Style, Jia ZhangKe, John Ruskin, Kay Sage, Leonardo DiCaprio, M.C. Escher, Michael Balfe, Pietro Lorenzetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Carlyle, Van Bassen, Vittoro Carpaccio, Wilhelm Pinder, Zhang Ke Jia The World
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father son rivalries: meet the fockers way back when
Tough love? A father-son rivalry that touched the most psychologically nerve. Oedipus in Berlin. The trouble with Frederick and his father came to a terrible climax in 1730 when the Prince was eighteen. Physically abused by his father and overwhelmingly … Continue reading
ANARCHISTS WHO RUN WITH WOLVES
… and occasionally ride camels. Nearly all exponents of anarchism, for example, have used the term to refer to a natural state of society in which people are not governed by submission to humanmade laws or to any external authority. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Hoffman, AEI, Amrican Enterprise Institute, Anarchism history, Anarchists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Black Bloc, Bobby Seale, Bouguereau, Christie Blatchford, Chuck Fager, Claes Oldenburg, Dave Dellinger, David Lynch, Dennis Hopper, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Emma Lazarus, Gee Vaucher, George Esenwein, George Woodcock, Gil Grachison, Graham Stewart, Henry Fuseli, Henry James, James L. Gelvin, Jerry Rubin, John Gray, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, Kropotkin, Martin Luther King, Mikhail Bakunin, Nelson Mandela, Niall Ferguson, Peter Marshall, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Piotr Kropotkin, Randolph Bourne, Richard Bach Jensen, Thomas Carlyle
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