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The travails and perils of finding a home. In the case of the Duke of Wellington, it took on palatial magnitude. Poor chap. All he really wanted was a little place in the country to relax and hunt. But to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Apsley House, battle of waterloo, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Blenheim palace, Duke of Wellington, Fonthill Abbey, John Ruskin, John Soane architect, Kitty marion, Lady Jane Wellesley, Mrs. Arbuthnot, Peter Snow Duke of Wellington, Peter Snow Journalist, Robert Smirke, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stratfield Saye, Walmer Castle, Wellington and Copenhagen, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek, William Hazlitt
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search for a less than humble abode
Parliament voted a king’s ransom to that the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley could have a home, a palace, a mansion, fit for his status as savior of the British empire. And after Waterloo that sum increased further. Yet house … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Harriette Wilson courtesan, John Soane architect, Mr. Clarke Jervoise, Robert Smirke, Sir Robert Walpole, Stratfield Saye, The Duke of Wellington, William Beckford, William Hazlitt, William Sadler
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house hunters
The Duke of Wellington’s prospects seemed pretty flat. The greatest war hero in English history, the Wonder of Waterloo could not dind a ducal home and the money was there from the Parliament. Lots of it, to create “a lasting … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Duke of Wellington, Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Splendens, Frederick Lamb, Harriette Wilson courtesan, John Rutter, John Soane, Lord Douro Wellington's son, Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, Lord Rivers Stratfield Saye, Robert Smirke, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stratfield Saye, William Beckford, William Hazlitt
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omar the tent faker
How to escape the classic and enduring, reinforced Orientalist trappings, the colonialist “other” that keeps resurfacing in reinforced, ingenious and more invigorated fashion. Is this part of the running of the gauntlet, the typical immigrant cycle as invoked by Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged craig thompson habibi, Francis Galton, Harold Bloom, henry goddard psychologist, john frederick lewis, julius grey lawyer, Maxfield Parrish, Rick Salutin, Sam Huntington, stieg larsson, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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POMPEII: Adam and Adamesque
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. , the ensuing earthquake and volcanic ash buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum until their rediscovery in the eighteenth century. When the ruins came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Charles Greville, Edith Piaf, Emma Hamilton, Giambattista Piranesi, Horace Walpole, James Adam architect, Jean Francois Chalgrin Architect, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Joseph Addison, Josiah Wedgwood, Karl Weber Pompeii, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Robert Adam Architect, Sir William Hamilton, Syon House, William Beckford
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DECAY, DEATH & DARING
”Fuseli’s protagonists are similarly given names that just ‘Sound’ right, his characters are equally formulaic, and it is in this disregard for narrative convention, and the moral instruction that was meant to be achieved through a coherent and legible story, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Henderson, Ann Radcliffe, Anna Sewall, Byron, Charles Dickens, Charles Robert Maturin, Dr. John Polidori, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Northanger Abbey, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Ken russell, Lord Byron, Marshall Brown, Mary Shelley, Matthew Lewis, Matthew Lewis The Monk, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Sir Brooke Boothby, Theodore Von Holst, Thomas De Quincey, William Beckford
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ABODES OF DESPAIR
Physically, perhaps emotionally, Matthew Lewis somehow never quite grew up. Small and neat, with pallid, projecting eyes that reminded Sir Walter Scott of those of an insect, he always retained his fragile, boyish air. He was, moreover, so affectionate and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Anne Radcliffe, Antonin Artaud, Byron, Fuseli, George Stubbs, Gothic literature, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, John Raphael Smith, Lord Byron, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew gregory Lewis The Monk, Matthew Lewis, Tate Museum, The Gothic Novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Thomas Gainsborough, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE NETHER REACHES
Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns, And, as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in sullen echoes through the courts, Tells of a nameless deed. ( Anne Radcliffe ) Horace Walpole set a pattern with his … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Antonin Artaud, Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Giambattista Piranesi, Gothic literature, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, John Pettie, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lord Byron, Marquis de Sade, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew gregory Lewis The Monk, Nicolai Abraham Abilgaard, Salvator Rosa, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Sir Walter Scott, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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STRAWBERRY HILLS FOREVER
The moon stood still on Strawberry Hill. Through dark and fetid dungeon passages, past amorous phantoms and shrieking monks, the Gothic novel led its trembling readers to a creaking door. What lay behind? Some would say the subconscious of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of the Unfortunate Lady, Eloisa to Aberhard, Francisco Goya, Gothic literature, Gothic poetry, Goya, Henry Fuseli, Henry Seymour Conway, Horace Walpole, Joseph Wright, madame de Deffland, Quinta del Sordo, R.W. Ketton-Cremer, Romantic literature, Strawberry Hill, Ted Turton, The Castle of Otranto, The Gothic Novel, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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COSTUME, CUSTOM and CONDUCT
Since Roman times, Bath’s hot mineral springs have pumped a quarter of a million gallons of spring water a day at a steady temperature of 49°c. In 1708, Thomas Harrison built the Bath Assembly House, for which the public paid … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Ford, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Linley, Gainsborough, Giardini violinist, Humphrey Clinker Smollett, James Gillray, Jane Austen Northanger Abbey, John Wood bath, Mrs. Siddons, Ralph Allen Bath, Richard Sheridan, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Beckford, Thomas Harrison, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Rowlandson, Tobias George Smollet, Tony Mayer, William Beckford, William Connor Sydney, William Hogarth
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