19th Century Miscellany

Long nineteenth century but mostly Victorian; cats, books, alcoholism recovery, cats, cakes, art, work rants and did I say cats?

[goldenpolar]

The other Mrs. Franklin - Sir John Franklin’s first wife, the poet Eleanor Porden. They married in 1823 after his return from his Coppermine River expedition, and their daughter Eleanor was born in 1824. The mother would die of tuberculosis in 1825 while he was on his second Canadian expedition. Franklin would marry Jane Griffin 1827, not wasting any time it seems. In 1822, Eleanor Porden wrote ‘Coeur de Lion, or the Third Crusade’, a poem about Richard the Lionheart. Though Lady Jane bonded with her niece through marriage, she didn’t really seem to hit it off with her stepdaughter. In fact, I’ve never really read what happened to Eleanor Franklin (the daughter) other than that she seems to have married a priest she met in Van Diemans Land.

[ceevee5]

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Lies, fears and cover-up: Russia’s role in the Brexit vote is too big to ignore | Nick Cohen

In any other country this scandal would cause uproar but the BBC and Labour party just prefer to change the subject

[ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr]

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." Sir John Harington 1561 - 1612

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Lies, fears and cover-up: Russia’s role in the Brexit vote is too big to ignore | Nick Cohen

In any other country this scandal would cause uproar but the BBC and Labour party just prefer to change the subject

[ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr]

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." Sir John Harington 1561 - 1612

[carrotsofthepirabbean]

okay hester looks cool but i would like to know why she has two (2) functioning eyes instead of the customary one we have read about please and thank you

[carrotsofthepirabbean]

not to be dramatic but i actually cannot describe how disappointed, upset, and angry i am.

[ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr]

You need a magnifying glass to make out that scar. I suppose true to the book Hester was always too much to hope for but this "effort" is simply insulting to the books, the character, fans of the books, viewers of the forthcoming film. What a load of bollocks.

[ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr]

Register by midnight on 22 May 2017, please don’t let others decide your future. It takes just a few minutes and all you need is your National Insurance number.

[socialistsquirrel]

Your vote does matter

In the 2010 general election: 10 million voted Tory 8.6 million voted Labour 6.8 million voted Liberal Democrat 15.9 million did not vote

More people didn’t vote in the last general election than voted for any single party. If all those people had voted we could have had a different government, they could have made a difference. Please don’t make the mistake this election of thinking your vote won’t count, of thinking your vote won’t make a difference because it really really could especially in a situation where it is so close and so many seats are marginal.

[ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr]

Voter registration closes at 23.59 tomorrow, 22 May. All you need is your National Insurance number. Registration only takes a few minutes, please sign up and have your say. Link to register is www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

[ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr]

Kitten season is here so this is just a reminder to have your cats and kittens neutered so as not to add to the desperate problem of unwanted and stray felines.  Those that don’t find homes live lives that are often short and miserable in the streets, or are put to sleep by shelters unable to cope with the huge intake. 

Not everyone is aware that kittens are sexually, if not fully, mature from a very early age indeed.  A kitten of barely six months recently brought to the sanctuary where I volunteer, gave birth to a large litter this weekend.  Three of the kittens died at birth and one a day later.  The outlook for the remaining two is as yet uncertain.  They are being fed by hand by sanctuary volunteers because their little mum, who really ought still to be enjoying kittenhood herself, is unable to produce milk. 

If the cost of neutering is problematic you may be able to get some assistance, so google low cost neutering services for your area.

The black kitten pictured above had a happy ending, being successfully rehomed some months ago.  Many others are so much less fortunate. 

[ayeforscotland]

The end of an 8-page form that women now have to sign to declare they’ve been raped.

That’s right, women now need to declare the baby who was non-consensually conceived or face having their tax credits withdrawn.

This was put into law without a parliamentary vote.

This is Tory Britain.

[fripperiesandfobs]

Dress and spencer ca. 1796-1802

From the DAR Museum

[missmentelle]

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

[technoelfie]

This is so worth reblogging!

[nordiskstormhatt]

Thank you!

[universitybookstore]

A Third Collection of Literary Maps

Narnia, from The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Nautical Route of the Dawn Treader, from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis

The Kingdom of Wisdom, from The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Earthsea, from the works of Ursula K. Le Guin

Shannara, from The Shannara Chronicles, Terry Brooks

Pellucidar, from the Pellucidar series, Edgar Rice Burroughs

Barsoom (Mars), from the Martian Tales, Edgar Rice Buroughs

Bas-Lag, from the works of China Miéville

New Crobuzon, from Perdido Street Station, China Miéville

(Jeru)Salem’s Lot, from the novel ’Salem’s Lot and the short stories “Jerusalem’s Lot” & “One for the Road”, Stephen King

[kim]

@ComedyCentralUK:

#Brexit: A Titanic Failure

Fucking hell, that JK Rowling cameo at the end.

[apolloandr]

Illustrations from the 1862 edition of Les Misérables done by Emile Bayard

[racoon-sex-dungeon]

Juncker to BBC reporter: Are you the British Prime Minister? - BBC News

Ros Atkins asked leaders at the EU summit how dinner went the night before. Jean-Claude Juncker had his own question.

im confused

[themindsimaginings]

Original Photographs of Napoleons Veterans taken in the 1850s

http://library.brown.edu/collections/askb/veterans.php

[ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr]

greek gods as donald trump quotes

zeus: She does have a very nice figure. I’ve said that if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.

hera: My marriage, it seemed, was the only area of my life in which I was willing to accept something less than perfection.

athena: Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault

aphrodite: My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.

hades: Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

demeter: Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air - not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense.

ares: I will be so good at the military your head will spin.

hestia: I had some beautiful pictures taken in which I had a big smile on my face. I looked happy, I looked content, I looked like a very nice person, which in theory I am.

hephaestus: Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!

dionysus: I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

hermes: There have been many bad things said about me over the years, and in some cases they’ve been true.

poseidon: All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.

apollo: In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye — I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled.

artemis: I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.