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Mid-week Museum – Object the Second
I first encountered the work of Su Blackwell, a London-based artist, on the cover of the July/August 2008 issue of Crafts magazine. The 2007 sculpture Wild Flowers, which appeared on said magazine...
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Marie-Antoinette’s head – and the man who dressed her hair
Tomorrow begins the virtual book tour of Will Bashor’s Marie-Antoinette’s head : the royal hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution (Lyons Press, 2013). The book was published on 16 October 2013, the...
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Book review and giveaway: “Marie Antoinette’s head” by Will Bashor
Have you heard the one about the hairdresser who died twice? No? Mesdames, monsieurs, may I introduce Léonard Autié? Hairdresser to Queen Marie Antoinette, and so much more. As the new year began, I...
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Not quite Victorian Vendredi
Ordinarily, as I get back on a regular blogging schedule, today would be Victorian Vendredi day, but as I’m getting ready to go on holiday in two days, time for blogging be limited. Depending on...
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Victorian artist-translators
I’ve always been impressed by the (first and second wave) Pre-Raphaelites’ many talents. They were not just artists, and as a lifelong student of languages (medieval languages in particular), William...
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Fruit-stained mouth and hands on National Poetry Day
Autumn is coming, and Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market, in those first lines heaping fruit upon fruit, is to me a poem of that season. I accept that it doesn’t make a lot of sense, as many of the...
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Teaser Tuesday: a bookish meme
I’ve been following the bibliophile blog Should be Reading for a few years now, and particularly enjoy Teaser Tuesdays. The premise is as follows (copied from today’s entry): • Grab your current read •...
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Unnatural Creatures from the Museum of Unnatural History (Book review)
Neil Gaiman chose a variety of stories all of which have in common their focus on creatures said not to exist – the most wonderful and the scariest beings living in our imagination, and so living on...
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December 14: Ghost lights
I could not write a series of posts leading up to Christmastime without mentioning M. R. James. Not only was he a librarian, and a rare books/medievalist librarian at that, he wrote wonderfully scary...
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December 16: Regency light
Today is the 239th birthday of Jane Austen. It is also the first Jane Austen Day (so decreed by the Jane Austen Centre). With that in mind, as Miss Austen is one of my favourite authors, today I give...
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