Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Charles Elmé Francatelli.

Transcript here.

Sources

Charles Elmé Francatelli. A Plain Cookery Book For The Working Classes. London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1867 https://archive.org/details/plaincookerybook0000fran  —.The Cook's Guide And Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant : A Practical Treatise On English And Foreign Cookery In All Its Branches, Containing Plain Instructions For Pickling And Preserving Vegetables, Fruits, Game, &C, The Curing Of Hams And Bacon, The Art Of Confectionery And Ice-Making, And The Arrangement Of Desserts, With Valuable Directions For The Preparation Of Proper Diet For Invalids, Also For A Variety Of Wine-Cups And Epicurean Salads, American Drinks, And Summer Beverages. London: Bentley, 1865 https://archive.org/details/b21526850  —. The Modern Cook; A Practical Guide To The Culinary Art In All Its Branches: Comprising, In Addition To English Cookery, The Most Approved And Recherché Systems Of French, Italian, And German Cookery; Adapted As Well For The Largest Establishments As For The Use Of Private Families. London: Bentley, 1877 (25th edition). https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-95770-33  —. Popular cookery: being a reprint of a pamphlet entitled, "Cookery for the Lancashire operatives, " gratuitously circulated during the cotton famine, in 1863. By an Englishman. Manchester: A. Ireland & Co, 1871. http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100049731949.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1%2C-146%2C1345%2C2432  —. The Royal Confectioner, English And Foreign: A Practical Treatise On The Art Of Confectionary In All Its Branches, Comprising Ornamental Confectionary Artistically Developed ... Also, The Art Of Ice-Making, And The Arrangement And General Economy Of Fashionable Desserts. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874 https://archive.org/details/b20409473  Lauren Gilbert. Cook at Buckingham Palace: Charles Elme' Francatelli. https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2019/01/cook-at-buckingham-palace-charles-elme.html  Catherine Gore (as Albany Poyntz). ‘The French Cook’. Bentley’s Miscellany Jan 1 1842, pp. 606-13 Patricia Bixler Reber. Queen Victoria's chef Charles Elme Francatelli. http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/queen-victorias-chef-charles-elme.html  Colin Smythe. Charles Elmé Francatelli, Crockford’s, and the Royal Connection.https://colinsmythe.co.uk/charles-elme-francatelli-crockfords-and-the-royal-connection/  Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Encyclopaedia of Kitchen History. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004 Henry Turner Waddy. The Devonshire Club and Crockford’s London: E. Nash, 1919

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TL;DL we're hoping to have an episode for you in mid-June!

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Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the early to mid-Victorian period.

Transcript here.

Resources for this episode included:

• Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
• Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web
• Stats from At the Circulating Library
• Alexandre Dumas’s publications
• The Oxford (or High Church) Movement
• Read The Lifted Veil at the George Eliot Archive
• Read open access scholarship about The Lifted Veil on George Eliot Scholars

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You should be listening to: Courtney's fiction podcast! The Way We Haunt Now is a lighthearted horror audio drama about friendship, found family, and fighting the narratives that try to define us – even in the afterlife. One of the central characters is Victorian ghost, Frances "Frankie" Matilda Summerson.

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Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Eliza Acton.

Transcript here.

Read Eliza Acton's Work

• UPenn's Online Books Page featuring all digitized editions of her work
• Poems (1826)
• Modern Cookery (1845)

Resources for this episode included:

• Asa Briggs. Victorian Things
• Sheila Hardy. The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton (would not recommend tbh)
• Elizabeth Ray’s “Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• and this article in The Guardian

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You should be listening to: Horse Girls, a podcast in which hosts Alex, Jenna, and Tim take a canter down memory lane to revisit all of those horse girl books they read growing up. Find the pod on Twitter @HorseGirlsCast

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In the season five premiere, Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the beginning of the Victorian period.

Transcript here.

Resources for this episode included:

• Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
• Richard Altick’s Victorian People and Ideas
• Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web
• Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction on Victorian Web
• Cliffhangers on Victorian Web
• Stats from At the Circulating Library
• Eleanor’s entry on Factory Acts

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You should be listening to: Check out long-time listener Art Kilmer's Bookshelf Odyssey podcast! The podcast can be found at www.bookshelfodyssey.com and you can also find it on YouTube!

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A long overdue trailer as we set out on season five<img alt="Transcript here" src="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eHxrCGLLWrAcjky4nRjMWZ0GtezIq_on?usp=sharing" />.

Music:

• String Quartet no. 2 in B minor - II. Minuetto moderato, performed by Steve's Bedroom Band

The story featured in this episode is Mrs Ranford's New Year's Dinner. Read along. If you want to read more about William and Mary Howitt, their Quakerism, and work on behalf of the poor, there's a good overview from the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.

In the tradition of our annual holiday episodes, I’ve gone a little wild with the title of today’s episode. Today, I’ll read you a Christmas Ballad titled “It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was first published in the 1870s  and which floats around with several variant titles. Before that, though, I’ll share a mini biography of its author, English journalist, poet, dramatist, and novelist George R. Sims. But first! let’s take a quick trip around the world in George R. Sims’s lifetime: Around the World

• Feb 11 1847 - Thomas Edison is Born
• 1848 marked the beginning of several revolutions against European monarchies, notably in Sicily, France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire
• April 10 1848 - Chartists gather across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament  for a demonstration in which they planned to march en masse to deliver a petition, but police had them trapped and the event ended with a fizzle rather than a bang
• Jul 4 1855 - Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" Is Published
• 1868 - Elizabeth Blackwell establishes a Women's Medical College
• Nov 17 1877 - Charles Darwin received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Cambridge University During Darwin's honorary degree ceremony, a prankster dangled this stuffed monkey dressed in academic robes from the gallery of the Senate House, which 'excited some mirth'.
• April 1888- February 1891 the Whitechapel Murders were committed by an unidentified person who came to be known as Jack the Ripper
• Sep 23 1889 - Nintendo Founded to produce handmade hanafuda cards
• 1899 - Kate Chopin Publishes "The Awakening"
• Sep 8 1903 - The American Federation Of Labor Grants A Charter To Granite Quarry Workers
• Feb 2 1914 the first film featuring Charlie Chaplin, "Making a Living," is released
• Jan 11 1922 - Researcher John Macleod and chemist James Collip administered the first dose of their newly developed Insulin Injection to 14yo diabetic, Leonard Thompson

George R. Sims Bio George R. Sims was born 2 September 1847 to father, George Sims, and mother, Louisa Amelia Ann Stevenson Sims. He would be the first of the couple’s six children. Between them, they raised their children with the London theater and progressive politics. Louisa was a president of the Women's Provident League and her father, Chartist leader John Dinmore Stevenson, lived with the family.

Sims began writing for in school, where he quickly began to publish poetry and journalism in The College Gazette and later  The Welcome Guest, Fun, Weekly Dispatch, and The Referee. For The Referee, he wrote a popular column of miscellany called 'Mustard and Cress' under the pseudonym 'Dagonet' from 1877 until he died. And it is under that pseudonym that he reported, from 1888-1891 on the Whitechapel Murders. 

His best-known ballad is “It Is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was often parodied during his lifetime but which struck me as having strong ‘eat the rich’ vibes in a Christmas season marked by the exploitation of wage workers here in the US. 

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Click here to read the poem!

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Thank you for listening! I hope you all have a happy Christmas Eve. Keep an eye on our feed for a second holiday episode from Eleanor.  Take care!

Resources https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/86dc0be7-20fa-36d2-8606-be3459167766

Music This episode featured "Deck the Halls (brass arrangement)" performed by Michel Rondeau.

Tres de Marzo Ya Cepeda, el hombre ilustre  que nos legara en herencia  la Libertad y la Ciencia  fuentes de ventura y paz  consagra con noble anhelo  para eternizar su gloria  a su querida memoria  cantos de felicidad.  Escuchad… Su augusto nombre  por doquier repite el eco…  Todo el pueblo yucateco  honra hoy al libertador  y en dulce y sentida trova  las niñas del Instituto  también le pagan tributo  de gratitud y de amor

Sources https://www.decimononicas.com/cetina-rita  https://distintaslatitudes.net/archivo/sobre-rita-cetina-gutierrez-madre-simbolica-del-feminismo-en-yucatan https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/opinion/83810/rita-cetina-gutierrez-pedagoga-feminista-que-dejo-huella-en-yucatan https://inehrm.gob.mx/work/models/inehrm/Resource/1484/1/images/RitaCetina.pdf  https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2017/10/the-yucatan-governor-who-empowered-women/ https://www.naatikmexico.org/womens-rights-in-mexico-a-brief-history/ https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=674&amp;from=1879

_The Land Whale Murder_s is a Gilded Age comedic alternate history podcast about murders, birders, and a missing whale.

The show is written by Jonathan A. Goldberg (writer of The Fall of the House of Sunshine, Radio Free Mushroom America, Margaret’s Garden) and directed by James Oliva (What’s the Frequency), with original music by Matt roi Berger (Fall of the House of Sunshine, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly).

The trailer for Chapter 1 is here!

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don't miss a single episode! And find out more about the show at www.landwhalepod.com

Oh, hey, wanna know why Eleanor declared Melvil Dewey an enemy of the podcast?? CLASSISM, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, RACISM…THE LIFE OF MELVIL DEWEY

CW: Racially motivated violence and death, alcohol-related violence, settler violence, residential schools, suicide

“A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction”

In this episode, we interview Professor Robin Inboden, who edited the recent Broadview edition of _Agnes Grey_.

Also check out Robin's book recommendation, Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life.

in this episode, we wrap up our coverage of the life of Mary Church Terrell! (Courtney here, apologizing for the random thumps. We were in hour two of recording and I apparently had the fidgets. :/)

Resources Used and Mentioned

• Mary Church Terrell. A Colored Woman in a White World
• Code Switch episode about redlining
• P. Djèlí Clark&#x27;s _Ring Shout_

The World’s Fair, Frederick Douglas, and Paul Dunbar

• The Poetry Foundation’s page on Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Get Lit podcast episode on Paul Laurence Dunbar
• A Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass’s Lecture on Haiti, Library of Congress
• From the Midway, a podcast miniseries on the Chicago World’s Fair
• A New Yorker article about the Haiti Pavilion at the World’s Fair
• An episode of NPR’s Fresh Air on the Remarkable Life of Frederick Douglass

Learn More about Mary Church Terrell

• National Portrait Gallery portrait and info
• Short PBS video about Church Terrell
• Ms. Magazine article about Church Terrell
• History Chicks podcast part one, part two
• _Unladylike_ profile of Church Terrell
• Church Terrell episode of _Encyclopedia Womanica_
• _Everyday Black History_ podcast episode on Church Terrell
• _Girltrek&#x27;s Black History Bootcamp_ episode on Church Terrell

This episode carries a general content warning for discussion of racism. Timestamps for other potentially triggering content: 08:15 - 08:45 (suicide) 09:40 - 10:00 (rape) 13:40 - 15:15, 15:50 - 16:15 (racist police and gun violence)

Sources

• US National Archives page for Mary Church Terrell
• Mary Church Terrell. &#x27;What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States&#x27;.
• Mary Church Terrell. A Colored Woman in a White World
• Library of Congress holdings for Church Terrell
• Bobby L. Lovett &#x27;Memphis Riots: White Reaction to Blacks in Memphis, May 1865-July 1866&#x27; Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38:1 (1979), pp. 9-33  
• Alison M. Parker. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell.
• Tyina Steptoe. &#x27;Mary Church Terrell (1863-1964)'. Black Past.
• SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) cooperative page for Mary Church Terrell
• US National Archives. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell with Alison M. Parker.

In this episode, Courtney and Eleanor chat about the life and work of poet, novelist, and dog-lover, Isa Blagden! (With Courtney's apologies for the episode's lateness. All she can say is: pandemic brain.)

We talk to Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam, the editors of a new Broadview Press edition of Aimée Duc's Are They Women?

Hi Listeners, this is just a brief announcement to let you know that our next episode will be delayed. Like many of you, we are struggling with this ongoing global pandemic. (laughs) Uhhhh. yeah. yeah. But, we've got some cool things in the works. They're coming soon. Fret not. In the meantime, check the show notes for a list of highly recommended podcasts that you can listen to this Black History Month. Thanks for listening!

(Music: Haydn, String Quartet II in B Minor performed by Steve's Bedroom Band)

What to listen to in the meantime:

• Driving The Green Book
• Cognitive Dissident
• Function with Anil Dash
• 1619
• This whole list of podcasts collated by the folks at Bello Collective

In this episode, we talk to Scheherezade Khan, a masters student at the University of Ottawa, about Isa Blagden and how we can decolonise our approach to Victorian literature.

The paper we discussed is Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong. 'Introduction: Undisciplining Victorian Studies' in Victorian Studies Vol. 62, No. 3. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.62.3.01). You can find Scheherezade on twitter at twitter.com/arete20

The music used in this episode's break is Charles Wood's &#x27;Ding Dong Merrily on High&#x27;, performed by Steve's Bedroom Band.

Sources

Fanny Jackson-Coppin. Reminiscences of School Life; and Hints on Teaching. Digitised by the University of North Carolina.

Cassandra Waggoner. ‘Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837-1913). Blackpast

Robin Brooks. Looking to Foremothers for Strength: A Brief Biography of the Colored Woman’s League. _Women's Studies. Sep 2018, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p609-616_.__

Geraldine J. Clifford. Those Good Gertrudes : A Social History of Women Teachers in America. (2016)

James Levy. Forging African American Minds: Black Pragmatism, “intelligent labor,” and a new look at industrial education, 1879–1900. American Nineteenth Century History. Mar2016, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p43-73.

Linda M. Perkins. Heed Life&#x27;s Demands: The Educational Philosophy of Fanny Jackson Coppin_.  _The Journal of Negro Education. Vol. 51 Issue 3, p181-190

Christel N Temple. The Cosmology of Afrocentric Womanism. Western Journal of Black Studies. Spring2012, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p23-32. http://0-search.ebscohost.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=76126380&amp;site=eds-live

Sources not directly used in episode but of interest Bryan Conn & Tara Bynum. Encyclopedia of African-American Writing : Five Centuries of Contribution: Trials &amp; Triumphs of Writers, Poets, Publications and Organizations. (2018)

Kendra R. Parker. Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011 : She Bites Back. (2020)

Nazera Sadiq Wright. Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century. (2016)

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Sources for this episode:

• The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
• Wang, Yanning. Reverie and Reality : Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women.
• Geng, Changqin. Mirror, dream and shadow : Gu Taiqing's life and writings.

• Grant, Beata. "The Poetess and the Precept Master: a Selection of Daoist Poems by Gu Taiqing," in Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, edited by Michel Hockx, et al.,

• This video on the pronunciation of ci and shi

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• Lois Brown. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution
• Hanna Wallinger. Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography
• Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
• [The Pauline Hopkins Society] (http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org)
• [Black Past article on Hopkins] (https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hopkins-pauline-elizabeth-1859-1930)
• [Library on Congress. The Grand Army of the Republic] (https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/)
• [Robert C. Hayden. African Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years] (https://archive.org/details/africanamericans00hayd_0)
• William Wells Brown, 1814?-1884. Documenting the American South

Additional resources

• [The Colored American Magazine] (http://coloredamerican.org/?page_id=548#hopkins)
• [N. King. Teaching Crime Fiction and the African American Literary Canon] (http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/67208/1/N%20King%20Teaching%20Af%20Am%20Crime%20Fiction.pdf)
• [Richard Yarborough, JoAnn Pavletich, Ira Dworkin, and Lauren Dembowitz. 'Rethinking Pauline Hopkins: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and African American Cultural Production'] (https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajy014)

The four men elected in 1870 were Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge, and Robert B. Elliott. Hiram Revels was elected to the Senate in 1869 and seated in 1870. [Oct. 19, 1870: First African Americans Elected to the House of Representatives] (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/african-americans-house-of-reps/)

Courtney and Eleanor chat about what they've been up to during hiatus / quarantine and what they're hoping to accomplish in Season Four!

Things we mentioned: Eleanor's article Call for participants

The books mentioned in this episode are:

• Akala's Natives
• Janna Thompson's Should Current Generations Make Reparations for Slavery?

Gerry Butler. ‘MARTIN ROBISON DELANY (1812-1885)’ Black Past https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/delany-major-martin-robison-1812-1885/

Encyclopedia Virginia entry on Delany https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Delany_Martin_R_1812-1885

African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (2000) edited by Emanuel S. Nelson

The Sorrows of Satan (Film)

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A Question of National Choice' by Marie Corelli, shows a price of three pence and a brown book titled 'My Wonderful Wife', the cover features a portrait of a woman." srcset="https://i2.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/D58BC5F7-1393-4D4E-9CFC-29E1B64FDF3A_1_105_c.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://i2.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/D58BC5F7-1393-4D4E-9CFC-29E1B64FDF3A_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https://i2.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/D58BC5F7-1393-4D4E-9CFC-29E1B64FDF3A_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=600%2C800 600w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" data-recalc-dims="1" //figurefigureimg data-attachment-id="1615" data-permalink="http://victorianscribblers.com/podcast/bonus-episode-interview-with-jo-turner/a637661e-c699-4652-a160-ea6b1cbeae50_1_105_c-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?fit=746%2C1052" data-orig-size="746,1052" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{aperture:1.8,credit:,camera:iPhone 11,caption:,created_timestamp:1578410676,copyright:,focal_length:4.25,iso:250,shutter_speed:0.02,title:,orientation:0}" data-image-title="A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?fit=213%2C300" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?fit=726%2C1024" loading="lazy" width="746" height="1052" src="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?fit=726%2C1024" alt="The opening page of My Wonderfull Wife, with subtitle 'A Study in Smoke'" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?w=746 746w, https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?resize=213%2C300 213w, https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?resize=726%2C1024 726w, https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A637661E-C699-4652-A160-EA6B1CBEAE50_1_105_c-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C846 600w" sizes="(max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px" //figurefigureimg data-attachment-id="1618" data-permalink="http://victorianscribblers.com/podcast/bonus-episode-interview-with-jo-turner/1a9b8eb8-e6bd-4747-a9bd-fe485648bafe_1_105_c/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024" data-orig-size="768,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{aperture:1.8,credit:,camera:iPhone 11,caption:,created_timestamp:1578410753,copyright:,focal_length:4.25,iso:250,shutter_speed:0.02,title:,orientation:0}" data-image-title="1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=225%2C300" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024" loading="lazy" width="768" height="1024" src="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024" alt="Two small books - The Greatest Queen in the World, 1837-1900 and The Greatest Queen in the World 1837-1901. Both books have a small crown between the title and the dates, with red lettering. A third, larger book, The Passing of the Great Queen. A Tribute to the Noble Life of Victoria Regina. " srcset="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1A9B8EB8-E6BD-4747-A9BD-FE485648BAFE_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=600%2C800 600w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" data-recalc-dims="1" //figurefigureimg src="https://i1.wp.com/theshakespeareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/DSC04323corelli-gondolareduced.jpg?w=1200" alt="Black and white picture of a gondola. On board are two women (Marie and Bertha) whose faces cannot be seen and one male passenger, as well as the gondolier/gardener" data-recalc-dims="1"//figure

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