![]() ![]() This volume contains illustrations by Christina’s brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London : New York: George Routledge and Sons, Limited E.P Dutton & Co, 1905. There are notes on the flyleaf and an attached postcard noting the provenance of the volume.Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. This volume is a first edition, advance proof copy sent to the Brownings. Cambridge, London: Macmillan and Co, 1862. The Armstrong Browning Library holds over thirty of Christina’s books and two letters.Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. Maria was distinguished by her study of Dante, Dante Gabriel by his poetry and painting, William Michael by his art and literary criticism, and Christina by her poetry. She wrote a variety of devotional, romantic, and children’s poems, and is perhaps most well-known for the lyrics of the Christmas carol “In the Bleak Midwinter,” her long poem Goblin Market, and her love poem “Remember.”Ĭhristina was the youngest child of an extraordinarily gifted family, Maria Francesca, Gabriel Charles Dante, William Michael, and Christina Georgina, all born between 18. ![]() After Barrett Browning’s death in 1861, readers saw Rossetti as Barrett Browning’s rightful successor. ![]() Written by Melinda Creech, Graduate Assistant, Armstrong Browning LibraryĬhristina Georgina Rossetti shared the limelight with Elizabeth Barrett Browning as the greatest female poet of the nineteenth century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Perhaps this one is not quite as compelling as some of her earlier ones but still I wanted to know how it turned out. Jodi Picoult can always be relied upon to provide another good read. ![]() And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.Īll songs performed by Ellen Wilber. It’s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people - even those she loves and trusts most - don’t want that to happen. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.įor better or for worse, music is the language of memory. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stucco reliefs as frames, asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork, sculptural arabesque details, gilding, pastels, and tromp l'oeil are the most noted methods that were used to achieve a seamless integration of art and architecture. Detail-work flourished in the Rococo period. ![]() Theater's influence could be seen in the innovative ways painting and decorative objects were woven into various environments, creating fully immersive atmospheres. Rococo art and architecture carried a strong sense of theatricality and drama, influenced by stage design.This included fete galante, or works denoting outdoor pastimes, erotic paintings alive with a sense of whimsical hedonism, Arcadian landscapes, and the "celebrity" portrait, which positioned ordinary people in the roles of notable historical or allegorical characters. Genre paintings were popular ways to represent the Rococo period's bold and joyous lust for life. ![]() ![]() ![]() On December 6, 2004, he was again rushed to hospital with breathing problems and disorientation, and was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and a collapsed lung. He was later released, but was severely weakened. On September 18, 2003, during Hurricane Isabel, Chalker passed out and was rushed to the hospital with a diagnosis of a heart attack. He was posthumously awarded the Phoenix Award by the Southern Fandom Confederation on April 9, 2005. ![]() Campbell Award twice and for the Hugo Award twice. He had a great interest in ferryboats, and, at his wife's suggestion, their marriage was performed on the Roaring Bull Ferry.Ĭhalker's awards included the Daedalus Award (1983), The Gold Medal of the West Coast Review of Books (1984), Skylark Award (1985), Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award (1979), as well as others of varying prestige. ![]() ![]() His stated hobbies included esoteric audio, travel, and working on science-fiction convention committees. He published an amateur SF journal, Mirage, from 1960 to 1971 (a Hugo nominee in 1963 for Best Fanzine).Ĭhalker was married in 1978 and had two sons. He attended all but one of the World Science Fiction Conventions from 1965 until 2004. Some of his books said that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia although he later claimed that was a mistake. Besides being a science fiction author, Jack Laurence Chalker was a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for a time, a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association, and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. ![]() ![]() ![]() "At the Workshop" focuses on her graduate school years, during which a workshop classmate repeatedly killed off thinly veiled versions of her in his stories. "The Worry Line" explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. In the title chapter, Jensen connects the trauma of school shootings with her own experiences of racism and sexual assault on college campuses. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. ![]() ![]() As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of Indigenous women, on Indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. HelloGiggles Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA.We need more voices like Toni Jensen's, more books like Carry."-Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There Goop Book Club Pick A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence. ![]() ![]() This second volume of the complete Ayaincludes unique appendices-recipes, guides to understanding Ivorian slang, street sketches, and concluding remarks from Marguerite Abouet explaining history and social milieu. With a little help from the tight-knit community of Yopougon though, Aya comes through these trials stronger than ever. When a professor tries to take advantage of Aya, her plans to become a doctor are seriously shaken, and she vows to take revenge on the lecherous man. ![]() While the stories found in Aya: Love in Yop Citymaintain their familiar tone, quick pace, and joyfulness, we see Aya and her friends beginning to make serious decisions about their future. Ayais a lighthearted story about life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country's history. ![]() ![]() THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE AYA SERIES Aya: Love in Yop Citycomprises the final three chapters of the Ayastory, episodes never before seen in English. ![]() ![]() ![]() Especially now that I’m a mom, I find myself wanting to switch off when I’m done for the day so I can be present with my son and enjoy every second with him. But my family members are constantly looking for themselves in my books, and I have to keep explaining that it’s not the case!Ĥ) Are you able to switch off at the end of a day of writing? If so, how?ĭefinitely. It never gets old.ĭefinitely not! I try to keep the people in my life out of my writing, though some experiences I’ve had definitely have made their way into my writing in various forms (mostly emotions). ![]() I’ve published a bunch of books by now, and every single time, I get a little bit choked up the moment I finally get to hold the finished book in my hands. True story: my son is now so obsessed with this song that we’ve heard him over the baby monitor singing it to himself as he falls asleep!Ģ) How does it feel to hold your book in your hands? ![]() ![]() That I’m mother of a 20-month old boy who just discovered “Baby Shark” and I’ve had to endure listening to it (and watching the video) an ungodly number of times. 1) If I looked at your internet history, what would it reveal about you? ![]() ![]() ![]() Look for David Grann’s latest #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Wager! In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” ![]() In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. Then he vanished. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. For centuries Europeans believed the Amazon, the world’s largest rain forest, concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. ![]() " one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."- New York MagazineĪfter stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed writer David Grann set out to determine what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z.
![]() ![]() Angry that Lestat's songs are exposing too many details about what they do in shadows, the legendary immortal is also placed in the crosshairs of his fellow vampires. By filling his music with references to vampires, he draws the attention of paranormal enthusiast Jesse (Marguerite Moreau). In Queen of the Damned - a fusion of the second and third entries in Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series - fan-favorite character Lestat (Stuart Townsend) transforms himself into a rock star. “And not only was this a vampire film - it was Anne Rice.” ![]() I was very excited to be part of a vampire film, because I've been a lover of vampires since I was very young,” the ‘Try Again’ singer explained to ET in May of 2001. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most poignant moment came when we read about the fate of the lame boy who was denied entry to “a joyous land”. The sessions when we read the poem aloud - sometimes taking it in turns, sometimes as one voice, sometimes quietly, sometimes raucously - remain amongst the most memorable in my ten years with Get Into Reading. In my search for material to read with them all I borrowed a set of wonderfully illustrated copies of Browning’s classic from the school library service. It contained six mums, a granddad and their eight children aged 5 to 8. This all changed when I was appointed Reader-in-Residence at a primary school in Wallasey. To be honest, I don’t recall re-reading this wonderful poem since my childhood and I hadn’t considered reading it in a Get Into Reading group, dismissing it as 'for children'. I can almost hear you chanting this already. Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats I absolutely guarantee that someone in your reading group, at your bus stop, on your train or at your supermarket checkout will subliminally know the following: It certainly contains some of the most memorable lines. This is probably one of the most famous stories, or “my ditty” as Browning calls it, in all of literature. This week's Featured Poem selection comes from Amanda Boston, Get Into Reading Wirral Young People Project Worker, who has revisited a childhood favourite into her Get Into Reading groups. ![]() |