#a romance of english history

[studiotriggerfan397]

L'Homme qui rit, The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History (or By Order of the King/On the King's Command) by Victor Hugo.

A poignant, profound and tragic story. 

One of my top ten.

[eirene]

The Garden of Eden, 1901

Hugh Goldwin Riviere

[burningvelvet]

An excerpt from the end of a letter where Mary Shelley rejects the advances of her long-time friend Edward Trelawny, 26 July 1831:

"My name will never be Trelawny. I am not so young as I was when you first knew me, but I am as proud. I must have the entire affection, devotion, and, above all, the solicitous protection of any one who would win me. You belong to womenkind in general, and Mary Shelley will never be yours.

I write in haste, but I will write soon again, more at length. You shall have your copies the moment I receive them. Believe me, with all gratitude and affection,

Yours,

M. W. Shelley."

[xojack]

𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝑜 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒.

[illustratus]

[wonder-worker]

It is clear, though, that (Richard Woodville) was a proud father. Later he purchased a romance, Alexander, which, he wrote in its inscription, had been bought on the fifth anniversary of the coronation of Edward IV ‘et le second de la coronacion de la tres vertueuze royne Elizabeth’

-Susan Higginbotham, "The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family"

[eirikr-inn-rowdy]

Today's Anglish word:

glaremight

noun

Electricity.

[maribellablack]

I always thought that Nicholas Galitzine was an underrated actor and I'm so happy and excited that he's gained more attention and popularity since the last year... I'm so proud of him...

Also, I don't care how many times he's played a royal or a noble character , it's never enough for me... I can't really explain it but it seems like he was born to play that genre of characters? and for your information, I'm very picky when it comes to the actors and actresses playing historical figures and royals...

Nicholas Dimitri Constantine Galitzine as George Villiers in the new tv series

"Mary and George" (2023)

[daz4i]

as a kid i watched a show that was insane and crazy on many levels and it had two different doomed tragic romances spanning across multiple timelines and i just had to go to school the next morning after witnessing them. Damn

[bazilisk]

Fun Medieval English poetry fact

Old English poetry, when it was more of a Germanic language, used consonance and assonance to make lines sound lyrical, more than end rhymes. Not many germanic words rhyme with one another on the end.

France invaded the country and language of England in the 1000's-1300's. French, a Romance language, has many words with rhyming end-sounds. French-speakers already had a poetry tradition that included rhyming the end words.

Poems with rhymes at the end of lines only became common in England after that French linguistic influence - after many, many French words with rhyming end-sounds found their way into the language. Source: Rob Words, a linguistics YouTuber

I find it funny how English speakers still try to rhyme Germanic words, though, after the rhyming tradition entered. Using Germanic words that way is like using the wrong tool for the job, again and again.

[coldcoffeecigar]

I dream, I write and then I dream again

[studiotriggerfan397]

The Man Who Laughs (1928) by Paul Leni.

One of the most iconic and influential silent films of all time (along with Metropolis, Nosferatu, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari).

A magnificent film and one of my favorites.

Highly recommend checking it out.

And, yes, Conrad Veidt's interpretation (and Jack Pierce's make-up) inspired The Joker.

[clove-pinks]

Typical glamorous Regency couple just going about their day.

[burningvelvet]

Miniature wedding portraits of Frances and John Croker of Barton by Nicolas Hilliard, circa 1581.

[yellowrayn]

Nightingale

Like footsteps in a night, she comes in.

Trying to help us sick, with a sin.

Loved or unloved, she helps anyways.

In the cold, by the way.

Man-dominated lives, but yet she shows power.

As in Tangled, she walks with a lovely glowing flower.

Making revolution, while showing us her dedication

"In honor of Florence Nightingale"

[illustratus]

The Dedication by Edmund Blair Leighton

The Dedication is an important rediscovery in Edmund Blair Leighton's oeuvre. Known only through a black and white photogravure published in 1908 it has not appeared on the open market for over seventy-five years. The picture is one of several painted in the 1900s in which a knight and his lady are seen in incidents illustrative of the code of chivalry. This series included The Accolade; and God Speed

Although not specifically Arthurian in subject matter, these pictures represent a late phase of the Victorian revival of interest in the national legend. Pictorially, they have many antecedents. Perhaps the most obvious are William Dyce's murals in the Queen's Robing Room in the House of Lords, in which the artist used incidents from the Arthurian stories to embody abstract concepts such as religion, chivalry, generosity and mercy, and the chivalric subjects that Rossetti and his followers were so fond of in the late 1850s.

In this painting by Leighton we see a knight and a noble lady in a Church kneeling before an alter as the knight pledges his sword in his holy cause and the noble lady offers up a prayer with her eyes closed and hands clasped; while in the background we see a soldier waiting outside, holding the knights horse.