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The Victorian Imagination: A Sampler
Book by Brown, Margaret Wise
224 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1984
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Margaret Wise Brown
396 books1,254 followersMargaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading.
She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper.
Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading.
She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper.
Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
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August 16, 2014
This book was.....interesting. I don't even remember where I got it.
It's about flagellation and torture in Victorian/Edwardian England. It basically describes how principal members of society got away with enjoying it by calling it something else. The excerpts touch upon incest, flagellation, whipping, bondage, torture, voyeurism, and what might be construed as pedophilia (some of the girls involved are about thirteen or fourteen, and there is obvious sexual pleasure got from them). It's not for the faint of heart.
It took me a very long time to read this book because it's not particularly interesting. It pretty much stands as an erotic novel (with some historical factual information) for unique sexual interests.
It's about flagellation and torture in Victorian/Edwardian England. It basically describes how principal members of society got away with enjoying it by calling it something else. The excerpts touch upon incest, flagellation, whipping, bondage, torture, voyeurism, and what might be construed as pedophilia (some of the girls involved are about thirteen or fourteen, and there is obvious sexual pleasure got from them). It's not for the faint of heart.
It took me a very long time to read this book because it's not particularly interesting. It pretty much stands as an erotic novel (with some historical factual information) for unique sexual interests.
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