#benwells

[portraituresque]

Joseph Benwell Clark (British, 1816 - 1886) - Self-Portrait

[the-final-sentence]

And standing in this moment, my knees shaking with the effort and emotion, I'm okay, even if this is my last.

Fox Benwell, from "A Play in Many Parts"

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Joseph Benwell Clark (British/English, 1857–1938) • Illustration from Sindbad the Sailor & Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves • London: Lawrence & Bullen • 1896

[yestolerancepro]

If it wasn't for the BBC this poor lady and her child would still be in a cold and dark house not a good example of customer care with Christmas coming up send her thank god she got her supply reconectted how many other disabled people will have the power switched off before christmas due to incurrect bills

[fuzzysparrow]

Happily Ever After?

CaptiveAuthor: A. J. GraingerPublished: 1st January 2015Goodreads Rating: 3.31 out of 5Reviewed: November 2014 (Advanced Reader Copy) Captive is the debut young adult thriller by British author A. J. Grainger. Set in contemporary Britain, sixteen-year-old Robyn, the daughter of the Prime Minister, is kidnapped and held hostage by three animal rights activists. Until the government agrees to…

[4eternal-life]

Colin Jones  /English, 1936 – 2021

Benwell, Newcastle, late 1963

Vintage silver gelatin print38 x 28 cm © Colin Jones

https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/52-colin-jones/overview/

[thepaintedroom]

Joseph Benwell Clark (British/English, 1857–1938) • The Bachelor's Breakfast Table • 1885 • National Museum Cardiff, Wales

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Stone Head of the Native God, Antenociticus from the Roman Temple at Benwell, The Great North Museum, Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne.

[henk-heijmans]

Children playing in front of the corner shop, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1963 - by Colin Jones (1936 - 2021), English

[bantarleton]

Nothing is now visible of the fort at Benwell (Condercum) in Newcastle, which was occupied throughout most of the Roman period by the Asturian cavalry regiment from northern Spain. To the south of the fort site, however, is the only causeway (or permanent crossing) of the Vallum earthwork to be seen on the line of Hadrian’s Wall. The crossing was one of a series of such causeways sited south of the forts, which were the only points where the earthwork known as the Vallum could be crossed to gain access to the zone immediately behind the Wall.

Art by Graham Sumner.

[lgbtqreads]

not a rec request, but as a South African queer person I just wanted to let you know of two South African queer books that I don’t often see on rec lists — maybe someone who follows your blog will enjoy them? :DD

the other me by xan van rooyen (set soon-ish after the end of apartheid, a white gay trans guy figures out his identity. i remember thinking that this book also portrayedgrief and self-harm really well. the author is also nonbinary and really friendly — i’ve connected w/ them via email before!)

the prey of gods by Nicky drayden (in a post-apocalyptic future w/ robots, a gay South African guy — who is Zulu i think! — helps to save the world)

if anyone has read any other books w/ queer South African characters i’d love for y'all to drop the names :)

You know, I actually though both of those books were already on the site but maybe they are not, so thank you for the reminder! (Though I do have Xan’s Finnish book on there.) The only other one I know of is Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell, but I’d also love to know more!

ETA: I should've mentioned Kevin van Whye! I haven't read Nate Plus One yet but it's set in South Africa, and he's a South African author.

[adarkrainbow]

Dubois' bibliography: Fairy books (1)

I talked a LOT before of Pierre Dubois, his famous "Fairy/Elf/Lutin Encyclopedias", his collections of fairytales, and so forth and so on. And yes we have to agree that he has a very free, inventive, poetic style when it comes to retelling the various myths and legends surrounding the fair folk and other supernatural beings. As such, while his books are very entertaining and very beautiful, they are not to be used as a serious research material and can be quite misleading between Dubois' personal inventions, crafted genealogies and fictional history of "Elfland"...

BUT the wonderful and very pleasant thing with Dubois is that at the end of each of his Encylopedias he leaves us with a complete bibliography of all the books he used when writing them. I have rarely stumbled upon such complete bibliographies about the "fair folk", "good neighbor", petit peuple" and so forth, and while it goes a bit beyond what this blog is about (fairy tales proper), I still thought of sharing some of it here because my Dubois posts were all here.

Now, I can't share the entirety of the bibliography because it would be too big. However what I will share is all the books Dubois placed in his bibliography... in English. Indeed, Dubois reads the English and as such a good chunk of his bibliography is English-speaking (there are also some Spanish, Italian and German books in his lists). As such, if you are an English speaker you can easily go check these texts. (Note, this comes from his bibliography of his "Encyclopedia of Fairies", so that we stay within the "fairy tale" theme of this blog)

Tolkien's On Fairy-Stories

Beatrice Phillports, Mermaids

Richard Carrington, Mermaids and Mastodons

Gwen Benwell and Arthur Waugh, Sea Enchantress

The Lost Gods of England, Brian Branston

Wilfrid Bonser, A bibliography of folklore

Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese Mythology (also known as the History of Japanese Religion)

F. J. Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Moncure Daniel Conway, Demonology and Devil Lore

T. C. Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

N. Belfield Dennys, The Folklore of China [The book has the very unfortunate subtitles "and its affinities with that the Aryan and Semitic races", but it was written in the 19th century so...)

David Crockett Graham, Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao

Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology

P. Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts

John Rhys, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

Sir George Webb Dasent's translation of Popular Tales from the Norse

The Norse Myths (as rewriten by Crossley)

Delaporte Press' Great Swedish Fairy Tales, illustrated by John Bauer

Inger and Edgar Parn d'Aulaire, D'Aulaire's Trolls (also known as D'Aulaire's Book of Trolls)

The Florence Ekstrand edition of Theodore Kittelsen's Norvegian Trolls and Other Tales

G. Fox, The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region

Edward L. Gardner, Fairies

M. Geoffrey Hodson, The Kingdom of the Gods

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Coming of the Fairies

Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults

Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Age

[mosertone]

Stephen Benwell

[eahostudiogallery]

Selfish Portraits

Jack Delano - Self Portrait, 1937

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Jacques Villon (1875-1963) - Self-portrait

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Pablo Picasso - Self-portrait

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Francis Bacon  - Polaroid self-portrait

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Joseph Benwell Clark - Self porttait

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Gregory Mortenson - Self-Portrait in Russian Hat

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Albrecht Durer - Self Portrait, 1500

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Arshile Gorky - The Artist and His Mother

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Douglas Gordon – Self-portrait of You + Me

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Ellsworth Kelly - Self-Portrait

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Saul Steinberg - Self Portrait

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Claude Monet - Self Portrait in his Atelier 

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Hunter S. Thompson - Self Portrait, Louisville

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Keith Haring - Untitled (Self-Portrait)

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Erwin Blumenfeld - Self-Portrait

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Robert Rauschenberg - Self-portrait with weed

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Wednesday: Life, still

[1000sassa1000]

Stephen Benwell

Male Nude - 2007

[sidlarsson]

Colin Jones, Children playing in front of a corner shop, Benwell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1963. Vintage Gelatin Silver Print