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_The house of the twisted sapling_ (1897) by Owen Rhos-comyl
This Victorian serial's subtitle is "An idyll; a farce; and a tragedy," a transition from Welsh Arcadia to revenge horror, and an imposed English system, "so full of form and so empty of justice."
gaslight-arts.com/TwistSap.html
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Plus two other romances:
"A fascinating ghost" (1881) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"The locked door" (1909) by Agnes Grozier Herbertson
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#VicLit #romance #lovestories
carved carnelian stones in the Louvre collection
Three stories of love, with carnelian stones:
"The suspicious jackdaw" (1866 ed) by Jean Ingelow
"An inexplicable fancy" [aka, The Carnelian Cross] (1872)
"The <sic>cornelian</sic> necklace" (1895) by Ada M Trotter
gaslight-arts.com
#VicLit #romance #lovestories
title illustration to "Forewarned", drawn by TSC Crowther (1863-1904)
title illustration to "Forewarned", drawn by TSC Crowther (1863-1904)
Money, government secrets & romance feature in _Forewarned : A story of the intelligence department_ (1897~98) by Maj Arthur Griffiths
gaslight-arts.com/Forewarned.h...
#VicLit #mystery
Warning: contains offensive terms
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In an age of self-congratulation about technical advancements, _20th Century_ ran a serial, un roman des idées, about how much Martians pity Earthlings.
_The journal of a scientist during a voyage to the planet Mars_ (1891~92) by "Samuel H King"
gaslight-arts.com/JournalMars....
#VicLit #SciFi
Vintage image of a British nurse, reading at a table
_Strange stories of a nurse_ (1902~03) relates a private nurse's odd experiences, including at Christmas and New Year's.
Told with a whiff of Scottish detail.
gaslight-arts.com/StrangeNurse...
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1896 proposal to link two moving trains
Those who celebrate the spirit of invention will enjoy this proposal from 1896 to bridge two moving trains, allowing passengers on the "local" to embark the express as it passes by.
"Changing trains at a mile a minute"
gaslight-arts.com/ChangingTrai...
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"John Whopper the newsboy" as revived, forty years later, in _The Scrap Book_ (1910) artist unknown
John Whopper, the Boston newsboy, had many adventures after discovering a portal thru the Earth from USA to China in this short 1870 serial.
Yankee humour provided by Thomas March Clark (1812-1903).
gaslight-arts.com/JohnWhopper....
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horse-powered "Tricycle of the future" illustrated by E B Bensell (Edmund Birckhead Bensell)
"The tricycle of the future" (1885) is an inventive story from the fecund fancy of Frank R Stockton (1834-1902). All hail horse-power!
gaslight-arts.com/Tricycle.html
#VicLit #SciFi #SteamPunk
scene from "Lauder Caine the confessor" Illustrated by J. Barnard Davis (1861-1943)
"Lauder Caine the confessor" (1896~97) is a short series of mysteries by Percy Andreæ
originally published in the sensation-seeking _Windsor Magazine_
gaslight-arts.com/LauderCaine....
#VicLit #MysteryStory
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"A tale of the X ray" (1898 ed) by Clara H Holmes
Circumstances go awry when a man hides from his family to explore the new X-ray technology.
gaslight-arts.com/TaleXRay.html
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"Detective in the inkpot" (1886) &
"Detectives of the inkpot" (1896)
Two articles which discuss the Victorian advances in uncovering forgeries, or tracing anonymous letters.
gaslight-arts.com/Tec-in-Inkpo...
gaslight-arts.com/Tec-of-Inkpo...
#VicLit #MysteryStory
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
"Ellice : A tale of phantom land"
[aka, Ghosts; Phantoms; Ellis; Призраки] (1863, 1873 transl)
by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
gaslight-arts.com/Ellice.html
#VicLit #TheWeird
"Gravely the sergeant proceeded to read over the warrant to his prisoner."
Two anonymous Victorian stories: one about a "Sgt Bender", and one of "Sgt Bonder"!!!
"A true story" (1892)
gaslight-arts.com/SgtBender.html
"A strange clue" (1887), with the denigrating language you might expect of Victorian British officers in India
gaslight-arts.com/StrangeClue-...
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The narrator crashes his bicycle, fleeing from a giant spider.
Two strange cycling stories appearing on Gaslight:
"My Sherlock Holmes" (1895) by Barry Kellogg
gaslight-arts.com/MyShHolmes.h...
"The house in the wood" (1897) by Hubert S Ryan
gaslight-arts.com/HouseWood-18...
#VicLit #mysterystory
Marie Dressler (c.1897)
Marie Dressler, stage comedian par excellence, contributed this story to the short-lived _Poker Chips_ magazine:
"Chips in her purse" (1896)
gaslight-arts.com/ChipsPurse.h...
#VicLit #poker #cardgames
Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945) and some of her publications
There is a new Lurana W Sheldon webpage for her fiction and opinion pieces.
gaslight-arts.com/LWS.html
#VicLit #suffragist #freethinker
Cartes de visites from Wikipedia
Anonymous author "A C" contributed several stories to _The Young Ladies' Journal_ in 1873. Here is the most successful one which was reprinted in other periodicals over the decades:
"The mysterious photograph; and how I found the original"
gaslight-arts.com/MystPhoto-18...
#VicLit #mystery
The Penguin Classic's cover of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Under the author and title is a painting of Stonehenge from far away. A lone figure is in the foreground, back to the viewer. Walking paths run towards Stonehenge. The painting is primarily in tones of yellow, orange and brown.
11/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #Tessofthed'Urbervilles #ThomasHardy #VicLit #VictorianLit #ClassicLit #ClassicBook
Image has a quote from Bram Stoker’s Dracula “I love the shade and the shadow, and would lie alone with my thoughts when I may.”
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