“… If a particular kind of reddish brown, crêpe wavy hair came in (his studio), he was away in a moment struggling for an introduction to the owner of said head of hair. He is not as mad as a March hare, but hair-mad,” Elizabeth Gaskell once wrote of the […]
Monthly Archives: May 2018
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Oscar Wilde’s Salomé is a Christian nightmare. The story goes: King of Judea, King Herod, requests an adult dance from step-daughter Salomé; driven with lust for and revenge with, Salomé demands prophet John the Baptist’s severed head as her reward. Wilde wrote the play in French in Paris in 1893. Salomé came […]
It wasn’t until the third time I heard my name being called out at this year’s New York Antiquarian Book Fair that I headed to the next booth. I had no plans of departing from the booth I was in, Jonkers Rare Books; I wanted to take my time, make […]
Algernon Charles Swinburne Critical Research Guide ◈ Deirdre Fanzo ◈ ENG 356 Background Information: Algernon Charles Swinburne was one of the great Victorian poets whose compositions often included such taboo topics as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. Swinburne was heavily influenced by the pornographic works of de Sade, and his […]
William Morris News from Nowhere or, An epoch of rest During our visit to the University Of Delaware Library our class got the special opportunity of going to the Mark Samuels Lasner collection. This special collection had thousands of archives, particularly books focused on the British literature during the period […]
A collection that was very interesting to me was the collection of Seth Kaller. His focus was on American History. He is interested on civil war, revolutionary war, and presidential history, He is mostly known for having a huge collection of political l archives and important documents signed by past […]
