Tag: 19th century
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September 12, 2006 07:28 PM EDT --
Desert cell
solitary mats,
women walking
no baby carrier,
babies hand-carried
my daughter,
head wrapped in towel
clothes, shredded
pioneer woman
ran, blood-soaked skirts,
feet bare
Desert cell
solitary . . .
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May 31, 2006 07:52 AM EDT --
In the mid-1800's a group of artists and poets, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and J.E. Millais, founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), with their initial publication, . . .
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March 21, 2009 04:45 AM EDT --
"Chopin"
I hear in his passages the rhythmical chase
Of anxiety feverishly running from Death.
His stormy seas have now become mine; . . .
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April 14, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
Years ago, when I was a child, a friend gave me a tiny book of limericks entitled, "Vest Pocket Limericks." It was from the 1890's and no credit was given for author or editor...just . . .
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December 04, 2006 12:58 PM EST --
Most of us remember the movie about Jack the Ripper, read a book about him or saw a documentary. It was the Ripper who terrorized women on the streets of London in 1888 and butchered five prostitutes in . . .
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May 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
I have rewritten "The Quill Speaks", a fiction story about technology for David McGill, a Gather News Correspondent who has a great article, about the dangers of technology. the contrarian . . .
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July 21, 2007 05:46 AM EDT --
Ever wonder what things cost in the 19th century? Well, I stumbled upon a site that lists several items from a 1897 copy of the Sears Roebuck catalog.
You can find the site here: 19th Century Prices . . .
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October 24, 2007 07:46 PM EDT --
Well, as part of a letter I'm writing to my characters (as per the NaNoWriMo standards) I've decided to pick out photos of Victorians that at least have the same physical features as these folks . . .
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September 24, 2007 01:05 AM EDT --
Paul Freckler has an extensive and fantastic Victorian photo site. These are all original photos, most are not for sale, some, however are on the market to be bought. Please beware there are post mortem . . .
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December 08, 2006 09:15 AM EST --
Rudolph Virchow was a brilliant German doctor in the 19th century. Virchow advocated cellular pathology, which meant that diseases should be studied by looking at the cells under a microscope. Prior to . . .
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June 18, 2008 03:53 AM EDT --
There was a subtlety
Of colour between his
Eyes and hers, which is not
Noticeable now both
Being dead and side by
Side in quiet graves, but
Then it was noticed by
Some at least who had . . .
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June 03, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
Was up rather late last night revisiting my trip last summer to Victoria, British Columbia. As a result did not arise at my usual time of 5 A.M. OMG...imagine sleeping in till 7...wow, quite . . .
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January 23, 2006 12:10 AM EST --
Sitting at her desk, today the Quill peers into the future and wonders about those who will live one-hundred and ten years from now. She fears a new, and as yet, unseen world where people speak to each . . .
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September 05, 2006 11:31 PM EDT --
Let's talk for a moment about Yves Klein.
Yves Klein is a dead artist who was most famous for his bizarre "art", which consisted of actions such as selling people in France empty space . . .
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February 02, 2007 09:27 AM EST --
Introduction
Braune was a brilliant 19th century German anatomist. He published an atlas of the entire human body, but I am mostly interested in the brain. I have enjoyed his atlas even though . . .
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February 18, 2008 03:06 PM EST --
interplay between architects and books in 19th-century America
AMERICAN ARCHITECTS and Their Books, 1840-1915 edited by Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O. Gorman. U. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, . . .
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December 29, 2008 03:48 PM EST --
Watching the AKC dog show the other morning. I cannot remember which class he was in and actual breed it was. After doing a little searching, it must have been the Corgis section. My husband was . . .
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March 28, 2009 11:23 AM EDT --
"Gnarled"
My thoughts; twisted, misshapen
Like that of an ancient gnarled tree.
Though Sweet recollections of you, float like perfume...
Death . . .
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February 09, 2008 02:41 AM EST --
Several years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to see a woman standing in front of my closet door. She was dressed in white. I had the idea it was 19th century clothing, long dress, fitted bodice, . . .
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August 11, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
This was the first writing exercise using vintage photographs that I published on Gather.
It appeared on January 6, 2007, the Feast of the Epiphany. I removed the article in June of that year. . . .
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