#OTD in 1871.
First performance of The Bells starring Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London. The Bells is a translation by Leopold Lewis of the 1867 play Le Juif polonais by Erckmann-Chatrian.
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25,000 Images of Medieval Geoffrey Chaucer Manuscripts Are Now Online
By Regina Sienra
https://mymodernmet.com/geoffrey-chaucer-manuscripts-british-library/
Geoffrey Chaucer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144
Call for papers
Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, British Library, London, & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferences/cfp-ogom-conference-2024-sea-changes/
@scottish #literature #conference #folklore #fairytales #mermaid #selkie #CallforPapers
The Minister said it wad dee,
the cypress buss I plantit.
But the buss grew til a tree,
naething dauntit…
—Douglas Young, “Last Lauch”
published in the Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, ed. Maurice Lindsay (EUP, 2019)
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/last-lauch/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #trees #NationalTreeWeek
I stand neither in the wilderness
nor fairyland
but in the fold
of a green hill
the tilt from one parish
into another…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Wishing Tree”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)
This week – 23 Nov to 1 Dec – is National Tree Week
https://treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-campaigns/national-tree-week/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #trees #NationalTreeWeek
"Knowledge, like matter, he would affirm, was divisible in infinitum; — that the grains and scruples were as much a part of it as the gravitation of the whole world."
Tristram Shandy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne
#OTD in 1877.
Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. It was written from a horse as main character's perspective. Sewell wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.
Tasteful Nudes... and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation by Dave Hill #books #literature #dedication
British Library Exhibit Reveals Lives of Medieval Women
By Madeleine Muzdakis
I’m seeking a young, clever woman, cute enough
to prompt a smile, armed with enough pity for
the dregs of the universe…
—Tracey S. Rosenberg, “The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement”
published in THE FLIGHT OF THE TURTLE: New Writing Scotland 29 (2011)
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality? …
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
First published in Where Rockets Burn Through (ed. Russell Jones, 2012)
Today, 23 November, is #DoctorWhoDay
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
Higuchi Ichiyō, a Japanese writer during the Meiji era, died #OTD in 1896.
She was Japan's first professional woman writer of modern literature, specializing in short stories and poetry, and was also an extensive diarist.
Works by James “B.V.” Thomson available online via @gutenberg_org
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An extract from a film by Ernest Schonfield of the poet Tom Leonard speaking extempore about writing the biography PLACES OF THE MIND (Cape, 1993), on the life & work of James “B.V.” Thomson
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The City is of Night; perchance of Death…
James “B.V.” Thomson (1834–1882) – poet, journalist, translator, anarchist, atheist – was born #OTD, 23 Nov, in Port Glasgow. Best known for his long poem THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, he influenced TS Eliot & is seen as a progenitor of Modernism
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https://psychogeographicreview.com/the-city-of-dreadful-night/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Victorian #19thCentury #modernism #TSEliot