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October 18, 2015
An ‘Irregular’ marriage – Arthur Annesley Powell, did he go willingly?
Originally posted on All Things Georgian:
Today we are supplying a little extra information on one of the people mentioned onour ‘sister’ blog, The Diaries of Miss Fanny Chapman. Arthur Annesley Powell was the husband of Fanny Chapman’s aunt, Jemima Neate.
The Elopement, or Lovers Stratagem Defeated.
Courtesy of the British Museum.
Annesley Arthur Roberts was born on the 15th April 1767, son of Elizabeth née Powell and William Roberts and was baptized at St George, Hanover Square, London.
October 17, 2015
Nabby Adams: The Mastectomy
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
John and Abigail Adams’ daughter underwent a mastectomy when she was forty-four.
The Oldest Adams Offspring
Nabby Adams’ illustrious parents: John and Abigail.
The eldest of the four surviving children of John and Abigail Adams was a daughter, named Abigail (1765-1813) and forever nicknamed “Nabby.” Somewhat withdrawn and shy by nature, she was bright enough, but never displayed the brilliance or intellect of either of her illustrious parent...
The Wirksworth Stone, St Mary’s Church, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:
The Wirksworth Stone, Derbyshire (Drawing by J. Romilly Allen, c 1889).
OS grid reference: SK 2874 5394. Near to the centre of the town of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, along St Mary’s Gate stands the ancient parish church of St Mary the Virgin, and housed within is the Anglo-Saxon ‘Wirksworth Stone’, a richly carved sculptured stone with biblicalscenes andfigures, which is said to date from the 7th-9th century AD; and there is also a stone witha...
The ‘Polopticomorama’: Bringing the American Civil War to Life in Irish Theatres, 1863
Great post.
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
When Mathew Brady exhibited his photographic images of the dead of the Battle of Antietam in New York in 1862, throngs went to see the exhibition. The shocking sight of the dead of the conflict caused the New York Times to remark that if Brady ‘has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it.’ Brady’s exposition is by the far the most famous of the Civi...
October 16, 2015
Wreck of the Hesperus, January 6, 1839
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem was inspired by the Blizzard of 1839, which ravaged the North Shore for 12 hours, starting on January 6, 1839.
Source: Wreck of the Hesperus, January 6, 1839
A “Scribbling Woman” from Salem
Originally posted on streetsofsalem:
Two Salem-born authors competed for best-seller status in the 1850s, but it wasn’t really much of a competition: Miss Maria Cummins’s Dickensian novel The Lamplighter: or An Orphan Girl’s Struggles and Triumphs (1854) far outpaced Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne’sTheScarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851) in this decade, and after. Hawthorne’s classics did well in their first year of publication–selling over 6000 copies each–but 73,000 copi...
I’ll fly away.
Originally posted on History Witch:
In 1477 Antoine Rose (also known as the Witch of Savoy, France) confessed, under torture, that she regularly met with the devil.The records state:
“The first time she was taken to the synagogue, she saw many men and women enjoying themselves and dancing backwards. The Devil, whose name was Robinet, was a dark man who spoke in a hoarse voice. Kissing Robinet’s foot in homage, she renounced God and the Christian faith. He put his mark on her, on the little...
Steampunk Movie Review: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Originally posted on For Whom the Gear Turns:
via Fanart.tv
Painting from 1858 of the climax of the story
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow first appeared as a short story in 1820, and has gone on to be one of the most enduring American ghost stories of all time. In the original short story by Washington Irving, a hapless schoolteacher by the name of Ichabod Crane is pursued by the ghost that haunts his village in the year 1790 in New York state. I remember watching a short film of this story...
