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James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (1748-1823) was Lord Chamberlain (1783-1804) during the reign of George III. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after Henry Edridge.
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Everyday Scenes (#1) by Jules Marie Desandré (1845-1899)
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Hebrew Women Reading the Scriptures at Jerusalem, 1843 lithograph by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850) after Sir David Wilkie from Sketches in Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841, London 1843.
Born in London #OTD on June 15, 1789, Hullmandel met the inventor of lithography, Alois Senefelder, in Munich, then established the first lithographic press in London at his home on Great Marlborough Street.
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🐾The Spaniel and the Chameleon by William Skelton (1763–1848)
Portrait artist, engraver, and illustrator William Skelton was born #OTD 14 June 1763 in London.
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"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself."
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), from The National Flag, remarks to the Brooklyn 14th Regiment, bound for the battlefield in 1861
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Betsy Ross and the First Stars and Stripes 1777
by John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945).
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Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born #OTD June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, CT. Her works include Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Old Town Folks.
Portrait engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie. Illustration by Hammatt Billings.
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🎻Composer and violinist Antonín Vranický (1761-1820) was born #OTD June 13, 1761, in Neureisch, Hapsburg Moravia. Engraving by Heinrich Philipp Bossler.
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Anglo-Irish poet, playwright, short-story writer, and prose writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), born #OTD 13 June 1865 in Dublin, was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. His works include Mosada: A Dramatic Poem; The Tower; and The Celtic Twilight.
Portrait by John Butler Yeats.
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ALT It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world. —William Butler Yeats from The Shadowy Waters (1900) Portrait of William Butler Yeats by John Butler Yeats
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Born #OTD on 13 June 1752 in Lynn Regis, England: novelist, playwright & memoirist Frances 'Fanny' Burney (1752-1840), aka Madame d’Arblay—courtier to Queen Charlotte.
In August 1787, at a Windsor Castle birthday party for the Prince of Wales, she inserted herself at a tea table crowded with ambassadors and army officers. In her memoir she recalled meeting the colonels who were courtiers to the Prince:
“The idea I had preconceived of them very much unfitted me for doing the honours, and I am sensible I acquitted myself very ill…. To my great amaze, the celebrated Colonel St. Leger, with his friend Colonel Lake, sat wholly silent, with an air of shy distance that seemed to show them ill at ease.”
Burney’s major works include Evelina, Cecilia, and the celebrated Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay.
Portrait by Edward Francis Burney.
Discover the untold truth of courtier and hero Jack St. Leger in my biographical novel The Man in the Way.
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ALT Portrait of novelist, playwright & memoirist Frances 'Fanny' Burney (1752-1840), aka Madame d’Arblay by Edward Francis Burney
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👉The Man in the Way by Roxane Gilbert:
amazon.com/Man-Way-Roxane-Gi…
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Engraving of Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797), inventor and cotton manufacturer, by Henry Hoppner Meyer after Joseph Wright of Derby.
Strutt and his brother-in-law popularized ribbed stockings with their invention of the Derby Rib machine.
Portrait painter and engraver Henry Hoppner Meyer (1780-1847) was born #OTD June 12, 1780, in London.
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"Pray over every truth, for though the renewed heart is not ‘desperately wicked,’ it is quite ‘deceitful’ enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment!"
—Charles Kingsley from Letters and Memories, August 1842
Clergyman, novelist, poet, and social reformer Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was born #OTD on June 12, 1819, in Holne, Devon, England. His novels include The Water-Babies and Westward Ho!
Kingsley’s wife and biographer, Frances Grenfell Kingsley, was a distant half-cousin of John Hayes “Jack” St. Leger (the hero of my historical novel, The Man in the Way). Their daughter, Mary St. Leger Kingsley, was a novelist, who wrote under the pen name Lucas Malet.
Portrait by Thomas Walmsley Price (1855–1933).
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The very next day at Kew… this same swan came over as I was leaving and stretched up tall, as if saying goodbye.🦢
Several years have passed… and I still haven’t made it back to London.
Sometimes the swans know before we do.
Who else has had a special farewell from a place or animal while traveling?
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The Principle Religions of the World, illustration from 'Religious Ceremonies and Customs,’ 1727 by Bernard Picart
French draftsman, book illustrator, and engraver Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was born in Paris #OTD on June 11, 1673.
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“They who know no evil, will suspect none.”
—Ben Jonson from Every Man in his Humour: a comedy, in five acts; (1598)
Playwright, poet, and actor Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born c.June 11, 1572, possibly in London. His works include Every Man in his Humour; The Alchemist; and Bartholomew Fair.
Engraving by Edward Scriven.
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ALT “They who know no evil, will suspect none.” —Ben Jonson from Every Man in his Humour: a comedy, in five acts; (1598) Engraving by Edward Scriven
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This graceful swan at the National Archives in Kew always swam over for a chat before I went inside. His mate watched from the water.🦢 A little moment of magic during my research days in London.
Who has a favorite “local” animal they always visit when traveling?
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