#historian: stephanie brooke

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The scrolling branches holding the main royal arms of [Henry VII and Elizabeth of York]'s marriage bed are echoed around the sides and ends of the lid of the couple’s tomb; they lie as on another bed with remembrances of their first, but this time with Renaissance cherubs to guard them.

One effect of this doubling of wedded bodies was to lengthen the duration of the marriage vows: what once expired at death now continued in the afterlife (...) Though it was common for a funerary monument to function as a memento mori, seldom had the imagined dialogue between the living and the dead been imbued with this degree of spousal intimacy.

Royal double tombs as a reflection of the royal body in which the body politic and natural body are mixed to forge royal power ‛whereby the emotional texture of the relationship between king and queen becomes a means to persuade their subjects of their superhuman authority’ (...) In short, spousal love becomes part of the definition of monarchical identity and power.

“We will, that for the said sepulture of us and our dearest late wife the Queen, whose soul God pardon, be made a tomb of stone called touche, sufficient in largeur for us both. And upon the same, one image of our figure, and another of hers, either of them of copper and gilt, of such fashion, and in such manner, as shall be thought most convenient.”

A CLOSED DEATH OF THE SHARED GRAVE |

Pietro Torrigiano — Tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York / Ezra Pound — The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter / Franz Kafka — The Castle / Stephanie Brooke — Imagery, Iconography and Heraldry; The Marriage Bed of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York: Dynasty, Design & Descent / Bastille — Remains / Donna L. Sadler — Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture (review) / John Berger — And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos / Laura Gilpin — Selected Poems / Henry VII — The Last Will of Henry VII

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The list is all about books and reading. Some are about or set in bookstores, others are perhaps about literary societies or book clubs, many are about libraries, and some are just about people who really love reading — you get the point. Overflowing in fun literary references and cozy nooks to read, it’s a great list to dive into if you’re looking for something to indulge the book lover in you.

If you have any additional suggestions, feel free to drop a comment below. Happy reading, book lovers!

The Shadow of the Wind CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookshop ROBIN SLOAN

The Book Thief MARKUS ZUSAK

Reading Lolita in Tehran AZAR NAFISI

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society MARY ANN SHAFFER

Fahrenheit 451 RAY BRADBURY

The Thirteenth Tale DIANE SETTERFIELD

84, Charing Cross Road HELENE HANFF

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1) JASPER FFORDE

Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2) JASPER FFORDE

The Club Dumas ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE

People of the Book GERALDINE BROOKS

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ITALO CALVINO

The Book of Lost Things JOHN CONNOLLY

The History of Love NICOLE KRAUSS

Writers & Lovers LILY KING

The Bookman's Tale CHARLIE LOVETT

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen CHARLIE LOVETT

The Forgotten Garden KATE MORTON

Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw #1) PETER SWANSON

The Book of Lost Names KRISTIN HARMEL

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows BALLI KAUR JASWAL

The Weight of Ink RACHEL KADISH

The Book of Speculation ERIKA SWYLER

The Bookshop of Yesterdays AMY MEYERSON

The Library of Lost and Found PHAEDRA PATRICK

The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1) A.J. HACKWITH

The Library Book SUSAN ORLEAN

The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) GENEVIEVE COGMAN

Matilda ROALD DAHL

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1) RACHEL CAINE

Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) CORNELIA FUNKE

The Book Charmer (Dove Pond #1) KAREN HAWKINS

Summer Hours at the Robbers Library SUE HALPERN

Camino Island (Camino Island #1) JOHN GRISHAM

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek KIM MICHELE RICHARDSON

The Giver of Stars JOJO MOYES

The End of Your Life Book Club WILL SCHWALBE

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ABBI WAXMAN

How to Find Love in a Bookshop VERONICA HENRY

Beach Read EMILY HENRY

The Dictionary of Lost Words BY PIP WILLIAMS

The Librarian of Auschwitz ANTONIO ITURBE

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them ELIF BATUMAN

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore MATTHEW SULLIVAN

The Bookseller CYNTHIA SWANSON

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) DEBORAH E. HARKNESS

The Little Paris Bookshop NINA GEORGE

The Lost for Words Bookshop STEPHANIE BUTLAND

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry GABRIELLE ZEVIN

The Lions of Fifth Avenue FIONA DAVIS

The Children's Book A.S. BYATT

Possession A. S. BYATT

The Reader BERNHARD SCHLINK

The Strange Library MURAKAMI HARUKI

The Historian ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London GARTH NIX

Lost For Words STEPHANIE BUTLAND

Murder by the Book LAUREN ELLIOTT

Booked To Die (Cliff Janeway #1) JOHN DUNNING

Trouble on the Books (Castle Bookshop Mystery #1) ESSIE LANG

By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1) EVA GATES

The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mystery #1) IAN SANSOM

The Uncommon Reader ALAN BENNETT

The Violets of March SARAH JIO

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason NANCY PEARL

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession ALLISON HOOVER BARTLETT

The Lost and Found Bookshop SUSAN WIGGS

The Eighth Detective ALEX PAVESI

The Fifth Avenue Story Society RACHEL HAUCK

The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood #1) MELISSA ALBERT

The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur #1) ELLY GRIFFITHS

The Ghostwriter ALESSANDRA TORRE

The Editor STEVEN ROWLEY

Suggested Reading DAVE CONNIS

The Last Bookshop in London MADELINE MARTIN

The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop #1) JENNY COLGAN

The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop #2) JENNY COLGAN

The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus Series #2) CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The Camel Bookmobile MASHA HAMILTON

The Bookshop Book JEN CAMPBELL

The Last Bookaneer MATTHEW PEARL

The Jane Austen Book Club KAREN JOY FOWLER

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend KATARINA BIVALD

The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers TERRI-LYNNE DEFINO

The Diary of a Bookseller SHAUN BYTHELL

The Jane Austen Society NATALIE JENNER

The Princess Bride WILLIAM GOLDMAN

The Library at the Edge of the World FELICITY HAYES-MCCOY

The Starless Sea ERIN MORGENSTERN

The Bookshop PENELOPE FITZGERALD

Confessions of a Bookseller SHAUN BYTHELL

The Night Bookmobile NIFFENEGGER

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires GRADY HENDRIX

The Lending Library ALIZA FOGELSON

The Borrower REBECCA MAKKAI

Lost in a Good Book JASPER FFORDE

The Name of the Rose UMBERTO ECO

The Library of Babel JORGE LUIS BORGES

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading  LUCY MANGAN

Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature  VIV GROSKOP

Howard's End  E. M. FORSTER

Don Quixote  MIGUEL De CERVANTES SAAVEDRA

The Last Book Party KAREN DUKESS

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Oceanic

One of my original works- still in planning mode as I’m not sure how I want to present it/write it and the haracters keep changing on me.

Basic idea is that the world discovers there are mermaids when one declares war on the surface. These mermaids can temporarily walk on land though not for long and can also use special shells to teleport as long as a corresponding shell is in a body of water. This is how various clans keep in touch. This means that one of the ways they fight humanity is through attacks such as bringing a bomb to a city where a clan was or where a body of water is, setting it off and then jumping into the water.

Only way to keep Mermaids away is through livewires as they are still wet while in human form and will shock themselves by crossing over.

Anyway- main character is Dr. Stephanie Jacobson, a scientist working to develop new water based warfare machines and also help with medicine and stuff- but mostly the machine agiven how dangerous the world has become. Despite the public view of all Mermaids being evil and cruel, Stephanie believes that there are good ones as her father- a marine biologist- was saved by one during an initial attack when people thought it was still a hoax. She wants to prove this but isn’t sure how.

Her closest friend is a security officer named Brooke Waters who is forced to reveal she’s a mermaid herself when the two are attacked. Stephanie discovers that Brooke is a lore keeper- a historian- for mermaids who placed herself in self-exile after the death of her clan at the hands of another clan. Stephanie begs for help and the two begin a website where Brooke explains things about mermaids and Stephanie tries to reach out to mermaids who might not want to fight but are being forced to as Brooke theorizes this.

Brooke can walk over live wires as she knows a sacred ritual to bind her merform into a shell that she wears as a necklace. When removed she becomes a mermaid again.

Basically- the idea is that the idealistic scientist and her friend want to save the day.

Quotes I will be using:

“Wait- your name is Brooke Waters.”

“It’s the closest translation of my name okay? Or well... the translation that isn’t ridiculous.”

“What is your name?”

“Technically? She who slumpers in a river running to the ocean.”

“... how do you get Brooke Waters from that?”

“Look that’s my literal translation-“

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“What is the mermaid afterlife?”

“... we don’t have one? I mean... our religion is based off of not pissing off the Old Ones.”

“Old Ones?”

“The Kraken is a myth to you. Not to us.”

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The three lethal Civil War-era cannons pulled from the Confederate gunboat CSS Pee Dee were loaded for action when they were recovered.

That was maybe the biggest surprise for the conservators who confirmed the ship was ready to fight when it was scuttled in 1865 in the Pee Dee River near Florence as Union troops closed in.

The CSS Pee Dee cannons will be put on display at this site outside the Veterans Affairs office at 707 National Cemetery Road, next to the Florence National Cemetery. Bo Petersen/Staff

The cannons, recovered in 2015, were restored and preserved in a four-year effort by the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston. They will be placed on exhibit outside the Veterans Affairs building in Florence at a date yet to be announced.

The ship might have been one of the South’s greatest weapons had it ever seen action. But it was finished in the desperate days of the Confederacy as the war drew to a close. While the Pee Dee likely never saw action, its guns had been powdered and primed. Conservators knew this because when they turned the key on a brass fuse it fizzed like a soda.

A 9-pound ball was loaded into the single Dahlgren cannon. The two Brooke cannons were loaded with forged grapeshot the size of billiard balls instead of the large, bullet-like shells they had been rifled to fire.

Grapeshot that has been restored and preserved that was found in Confederate-made Brooke cannons aboard the CSS Pee Dee, recovered in 2015, at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in North Charleston. Grace Beahm Alford/Staff

“You can pretty much tell the desperation toward the end of the war. They were jamming anything they could get into those guns,” said Nate Fulmer, an underwater archaeologist with the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, who helped in the recovery.

He is part of a SCIAA team now housed at the Lasch Center, at the Clemson University Restoration Institute, in what Stephanie Crette, the Lasch center director, called a valuable cross-pollinating.

The 150-foot-long ship would have been an imposing vessel. Crewed by more than 90 seamen, it was designed to break the Union’s blockade of Charleston, state Archaeologist Jonathan Leader said in 2015 at the recovery of the guns.

The three cannons weighed nearly 20 tons in total and had been mounted on carriages so they could be swung in either direction.

The Pee Dee was built in the Confederate navy yard at Mars Bluff where the ship was scuttled. It was back in the woods well inland from the coast to hide it from the Union.

Stephanie Crette, executive director of the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, reveals preserved textiles that were found wrapped around grapeshot that was inside the two Confederate-made Brooke cannons recovered from the CSS Pee Dee on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in North Charleston. Grace Beahm Alford/Staff

The guns, which had been pushed overboard before the ship was set on fire, were pulled one by one from the river near the navy yard site. Each was so heavy that a huge excavator tilted forward on its treads to raise it.

The Brookes were Confederate made. The Dahlgren smoothbore was a U.S. Navy gun and apparently had been seized from a Union vessel.

“These cannons help tell us about the dynamics of a conflict that defined the South more than any other event in our history,” said Ben Zeigler, president of the Florence County Historical Society.

The display isn’t intended to be a memorial but a reflection on human conflict, he said.

“They (the guns) were technological marvels created for a purpose that was never fulfilled and in a cause that will be remembered as fatally flawed by the injustice of chattel slavery,” Zeigler said.

The dates and size of the Confederate-made Brooke cannon recovered from the CSS Pee Dee in 2015 can be seen after it was restored and preserved at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in North Charleston. Grace Beahm Alford/Staff

Brooke rifles are esteemed. The historians gaped in 2015 when the 10- to 12-foot cannons were raised in such good shape. Cast iron and weighing 12,000 and 16,000 pounds, the Brookes are so sophisticated that they are not remarkably different from today’s guns.

The restoration took four years because the guns had to soak for two years in a solution to remove corrosive salts, then be prepared for the outdoor exhibit, Crette said.

Replica carriages couldn’t be built until specific measurements could be made of the restored mountings on the guns.

“The ‘textbooks’ (preeminent artifacts) don’t come up very often,” Fulmer said.

The conservation team included Johanna Rivera, Anna Funke, Gyllian Porteous, Virginie Ternisien and Flavia Puoti. The recovery and restoration were paid for, in part, with a $200,000 grant from the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation in Florence.

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Stephanie Brooke on Henry VII’s Westminster cope (x)

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THE DAISY AND THE MARIGOLD  (or the red and the white rose)

The earliest example is the only surviving literature from their marriage: the epithalamium of Giovanni Gigli written for Elizabeth of York in her bridal chamber. A royal manuscript from 1490 shows a daisy and marigold united by a gillyflower, symbolic of marriage. Thirty years on, Henry VIII recognised his parents by these same floral symbols in the 1516 Royal Choirbook (Stephanie Brooke).

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