Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Far from Being Alarmed at His Sight, Beauty Was Delighted (1858)

J.R. Plancé “Beauty and the Beast,” Four and Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected from those of Perrault, and Other Popular Writers (London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858), 272.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

“Men Are Deceivers Ever, Aren’t They Miss Noakes?” “How Should I Know Child,” She Replied Rather Curtly (1891)

Elizabeth W. Champney, Witch Winnie’s Mystery: Or, The Old Oak Cabinet:The Story of a King's Daughter (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1891), 290.

Friday, February 16, 2018

He Told Her of the Errand on Which He Had Come (1905)

“Rabbi Phil,” Illustration by Sydney Cowell, The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 196.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Curly-Locks Hardly Knew What to Make of It (1905)

Millicent Burbridge, “Curly Locks: A Story for Young and Old,” The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 1301.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Let’s Waste No Time on the Outskirts of Friendship (1916)

Mary Heaton Vorse, “The Judgement of the Thortons,” Illustration by W.S. Corrow, The Century 92 (May 1916): 87.

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Coasting (1898)

A.B Frost, “Some Bicycle Pictures” Scribner’s Magazine 23 (May 1898): 607

Friday, February 9, 2018

“Tom,” Whispered Mrs Nichols, “Here Is an Occasion for the Display of Moral Courage to Serve as a Pendant to Your Physical Bravery of the Morning. Cheer Up.”

Robert Grant, “In Fly-Time,” Illustration by C.D. Gibson, The Bachelor’s Christmas and Other Stories,” (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 142.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

The Proposal (1891)

Frank R. Stockton, “The Squirrel Inn—V,” The Century 42 (September 1891): 702.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

I Do Not Want to Go, Mamma (1880)

“This Is the Way, Walk Ye in It,” Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 48 (December 1880): 690.

Monday, February 5, 2018

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Burly Felt a Pleasant Shock as Her Eyes Met His (1913)

Julian Street, “At Liberty,” Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, Everybody’s Magazine 28 (January 1913): 51.

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Figurines of a Male and a Female Personage from the Walpi Flute Altar (1894)

Jesse Walter Fewkes, “The Walpi Flute Observations,” The Journal of American Folklore 7 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894), 287, plate 1.