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

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

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.