#john b Wentworth

[nerds-yearbook]

The anthology comic Flash Comics 1# with a cover date of January, 1940, introduced a multitude of characters. In the segment "Origin of the Flash" Jay Garrick/The Flash, Joan Williams, Major Arthur Williams, and Professor Hughes were introduced created by Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert. In the "Cliff Cornwall: The Disappearing Plane" segment, Cliff Cornwall and Lys Valliere were introduced. They were created by Gardner Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. In the "The Origin of Hawkman" Hawkman, Shiera Sanders, Dr Hastor, Hath-Set, Prince Knufu, Chay-Ara and Nth Metal were introduced. They were created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville. In "The Kidnapping of Johnny Thunder" segment, Johnny Thunder, Thunderbolt, Simon B Thunder, Mildred Thunder, Priest of Aissor, and Badhnisisns were introduced. They were created by John B Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier. In the "Origin of the Whip" segment, Whip, Don Fernando Suarez, Wing, and Padre were introduced. They were created by John B Wentworth and George Storm. ("The Flash: Origin of the Flash", "Cliff Cornwall: The Disappearing Plane", "Hawkman: The Origin of Hawkman", "Johnny Thunder: The Kidnapping of Johnny Thunder", "Flash Picture Novellette: The Demon Dummy pt 1", and "The Whip: Origin of the Whip", Flash Comics 1, DC Comic Event)

[viornefni]

You're in my head

I had plans for the weekend

But wound up with you instead

Back here again

Got me deep in my feelings

When i should be in your bed

You and i go back to like '09 it's like forever

And you were there my lonely nights, yeah, keeping me together

So wouldn't it make sense if I was yours and you could call me your baby

But we say we're just, say we're just

Friends

Just for now

Yeah but friends don't say words that

Make friends feel like more than just

Friends

Just for now

Now I'm over pretending

So let's put the "end" in friends

Friends

Just for now

Yeah but friends don't say words that

Make friends feel like more than just

Friends are not supposed to get too close

And feel emotions that we're feeling now, now, now

We ain't slowing down, down, down

But once we cross the line, there's no denying you and I can never turn around, round, round

Know we'll never be the same

You and I go back to like '09 it's like forever

And you were there my lonely nights, yeah, keeping me together

So wouldn't it make sense if I was yours and you could call me your baby

But we say we're just, say we're just

Friends

Just for now

Yeah but friends don't say words that

Make friends feel like more than just

Friends

Just for now

Now I'm over pretending

So let's put the "end" in friends

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Director: Samuel Bradley

Production Company: Iconoclast TV

EP: Maeva Tenneroni, Jean Mougin, Guy Rolfe

Head of Production: Kate Sharpe

Producer: Martha Mcguirk

Directors Agent: Yoni Yosef

Casting: Road Casting

Casting Director: Coralie Rose

Casting Assist: Luis Torrecilla, Laura Meredith

Love Interest: Ruby Sear

Production Manager: Chanel Parkinson

Production Co-ord: Alice Hayes

Artist Liason: Jo Thompson

Cast Co-ord: Beth Rubery

Production Assistant: Callum Anderson

Production Runner: Mia Tessema

Intimacy Coordinator: Stella Moss

Movement Director: Yagamoto

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[free-for-all-fics]

Obscure Characters List - Male Edition

Obscure Characters I love for some reason. (By obscure I mean characters that have little to no fanfic written about them. Not necessarily characters nobody’s ever heard of.) Don’t ask me to explain why.

A

Abraham Alastor/Anthony Clarke (Dark Pictures Little Hope)

Adam (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Adam (Hallmark Frankenstein 2004)

Al Capone (Night at the Museum)

Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Alec Fell (Nancy Drew, The Silent Spy)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Amphibian Man/The Asset (Shape of Water)

Anthony Walsh (Blood Fest)

Anton Herzen (Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box)

Ardeth Bay (Mummy series)

Armand (Queen of the Damned 2002)

Armando Salazar (Pirates of the Caribbean 5)

B

Barnaby (Sabrina Down Under)

Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)

Baron Meinster (Brides of Dracula)

Beast/Hank McCoy (X-Men, Kelsey Grammer version)

Beast/Prince (Beauty and the Beast 2014)

Ben Willis (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

Bernard the elf (Santa Clause series)

Black Phillip (The VVitch)

Blade (Puppetmaster series)

Bughuul (Sinister 1 and 2)

C

Caliban/John Clare (Penny Dreadful)

Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan 2003)

Cedric Brown (Nanny McPhee)

Christian Thompson (Devil Wears Prada)

Colonel William Tavington (The Patriot)

Cornelis Sandvoort (Tulip Fever)

Crown Prince Ryand'r/Darkfire (DC comics/Teen Titans)

D

Daniel Le Domas (Ready Or Not)

Death (Final Destination series)

Dimitri Allen (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future)

Dimitri Denatos (Mom’s Got a Date With a Vampire)

Dustfinger (Inkheart)

Dr. Alexander Sweet/Dracula (Penny Dreadful)

Dr. Gregory Butler (Happy Death Day 1 & 2)

Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen)

Driller Killer (Slumber Party Massacre 2)

E

Edward Gracey (Haunted Mansion 2003) 

Edward Mordrake (Urban Legend/American Horror Story Asylum)

Edward/Eddie “Tex” Sawyer (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3)

Elemer of the Briar (Elden Ring)

Erik Carriere (Phantom of the Opera 1990)

Ethan (Pilgrim 2019)

F

Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne)

Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Fegan Floop (Spy Kids trilogy)

Fox Mask/Tom (You’re next)

G

George Knightley (Emma)

Ghost/Mitch (Haunt 2019)

Godskin Apostle (Elden Ring)

Godwyn the Golden (Elden Ring)

Gold Watchers (Dark Deception)

Greg (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies)

Grim Matchstick (Cuphead)

Gurranq Beast Clergyman (Elden Ring)

H

Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (Broadway, Rob Evan version)

Henry Sturges (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Hugh Crain (Haunting of Hill House, the book and 1963 film. Not the Flanagan show or 1999 movie remake)

Hugo Butterly (Nancy Drew, Danger by Design)

I

Ingemar (Midsommar)

J

Jack Ferriman (Ghost Ship)

Jack Worthing/Uncle Jack (We Happy Few)

Jafar (Once Upon a Time, not the Wonderland spin-off)

Jan Valek (John Carpenter’s Vampires)

Jefferson "Seaplane" McDonough/Alex (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter (Arkhamverse! Video Games)

Jester (Puppetmaster series)

John (He’s Out There)

Joseph “Joey” Mallone (Blackwell series)

Juan (The Forever Purge)

Juno Hoslow, Knight of Blood (Elden Ring)

K

Kalabar (Halloweentown)

Kenneth Haight (Elden Ring)

Killer Moth/Drury Walker (Teen Titans)

King Paimon (Hereditary)

L

Lamb Mask/Craig (You’re next)

Lamplighter (The Boys)

Launder Man (Crypt TV)

Lawrence “Larry” Gordon (Saw series)

Loki (Apsulov: End of Gods)

Lucifer (Devil’s Carnival 1 & 2)

M

Magic Mirror (Snow White 1937/Shrek)

Man in the Mask (The Strangers)

Manon (The Craft)

Man-Thing (Marvel’s Werewolf By Night)

Marco Polo/Merman (Crypt TV)

Marcus Corvinus (Underworld series)

Markus Boehm (Nancy Drew, the Captive Curse)

Mephistopheles (Faust’s Albtraum)

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare (Bloodborne)

Miquella (Elden Ring)

Mirror Man (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Mr. Crow/Aldous Vanderboom (Rusty Lake series)

Mr. Le Bail (Ready Or Not)

Mr. Slausen (Tourist Trap)

N

Nigel Billingsley (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Night’s Cavalry (Elden Ring)

Nothing (The Night House)

P

Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

Pierre Despereaux (Psych)

Prince Anton Voytek (Vampire 1974)

Prince Escalus (Romeo and Juliet, no particular adaptation)

Prince Quartus (Stardust)

Prince Septimus (Stardust)

Professor Petrie/Phantom of the Opera (Phantom of the Opera 1962)

Peter Quint (Turn of the Screw, the book and maybe some other adaptations. Not the Bly Manor Flanagan show.)

R

Reese Kelly (Scarlet Hollow)

Rene Belloq (Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Roland Voight (Hellraiser 2022)

Ronin (Star Trek)

Rorschach (Watchmen)

Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Rusty Nail (Joyride trilogy)

S

Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Sam Wayne (Scarlet Hollow)

Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

Simon Jarrett (SOMA)

Sir Lancelot (Night at the Museum 3)

Sportacus (LazyTown)

Starscourge Radahn (Elden Ring)

STEM (Upgrade)

Sutter Cane (In the Mouth of Madness)

T

Thantos DuBaer (Twitches 1 and 2)

The Auditor (Hellraiser: Judgment)

The Babadook (The Babadook)

The Black Knight Ghost (Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed)

The Curator (Dark Pictures Anthology)

The Designer (Devil’s Carnival 2)

The Djinn/Nathaniel Demerest/Professor Joel Barash/Steven Verdel (Wishmaster series)

The Faun (Pan’s Labyrinth)

The Fox (The Little Prince 1974)

The Jester (The Jester, A Short Horror Film series)

The Kinderfänger (Crypt TV)

The Knight/Tarhos Kovács (Dead by Daylight)

The Look-See (Crypt TV)

The Man (Carnival of Souls)

The Merman (Cabin In The Woods)

The Metal Killer (Stage Fright 2014)

The Mirror (Oculus)

The Narrator (Stanley Parable)

The Other (Hellfest)

The Phantom (Phantom Manor)

The Projectionist (Pearl)

The T-1000/Cop (Terminator 2, Terminator Genisys)

The Tall Man/The Entity (It Follows)

The Thing (The Thing 1982)

The Torn Prince/Royce Clayton (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

The Torso/James “Jimmy” Gambino (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

Thomas Alexander “Alex” Upton (TAU)

Tiger Mask/Dave (You’re Next)

Tommy Ross (Carrie, 1976)

V

Valak (The Conjuring)

Valdack and his real world counterpart (Black Mirror)

Van Pelt (Jumanji 2)

Venable (Wrong Turn 2021)

Viktor (Underworld series)

Viktor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale (Once Upon a Time)

Vladislaus Dracula (Van Helsing 2004)

W

Wade Thornton (Nancy Drew, Ghost of Thornton Hall)

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts (The Princess Bride)

Wildwind/Dark Skull, Stormy Weathers, and Lightning Strikes (Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire)

“William”/The Headless Figure (Crypt TV)

William "Billy" Butcherson (Hocus Pocus 1 and 2)

X

Xenan the Centaur (Xena Warrior Princess)

[dailyjsa]

Flash Comics #1

Writer: John B. Wentworth

Artist/Inker: Stan Aschmeier

[madellaine]

anya's characters/ships in SRRP as jane austen characters

SORRY im crashign emma's vibe but this has been ON MY MIND since i made my aesthetics, because I very very deliberately picked quotes from the most Relevant TM Jane Austen books SO without further ado:

MAXELLA: Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot -- I literally went to Lins when I was drafting up Drizella's bio and told her we should do Persuasion vibes, but I wasn't going to do Drizella. READER, I WAS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In retrospect, I can't believe I decided to pull a plot from my favorite Jane Austen book and thought I would not do it.

Anyway, I said this in a gifset I reblogged, but I've been approaching Drizella here in an attempt to reclaim the HORRIBLE Netlix Persuasion, which made Anne a sort of #girlboss. It did NOT work for Persuasion, as the story was, but I thought about how it might make sense for Drizella. Anne breaks the fourth wall in a very Fleabag way and that would be perfect for a spinster who was laughing at society and critiquing it instead of one who had been pushed around by her elders.

WOLFING: Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars -- yes most of this is just bc I massively associate Ting with Elinor, but it is also because of the P I N I N G and the R E P R E S S I O N and the THINKING THEY CANNOT ACT ON THESE FEELINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TOO!!!!!!!!!!!! They have a sense of Duty and responsibility which keeps them from expressing their feelings :'')

MADDNEY: Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland -- this one appeared to me during their promenade walk, because Maddy is that starry-eyed country girl who wants a good story out of this and John is like love that energy, but also i know more about the world, but also you're kinda making me soft about that. I mean, there's obviously our own B-Plots here, but just for the pure surface vibes its great

DAYLILY: Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner -- sorry this doesnt count but jane austen didnt do scandalous class differences but i couldnt leave them out

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tagging my boos @trackedbymaximus / @wolf-innsheepsclothing / @poor-princejohn / @halfawitch-willow / ok that is all

[cantsayidont]

December 1946. A JSA stalwart, Johnny Thunder had a long-running feature in FLASH COMICS, which for its first 85 issues was written by John B. Wentworth (who eventually wrangled a byline, unusual for the era) and drawn by Stan Aschmeier (whose byline, typically "Stan Josephs," seemed to come and go). As explained above, Johnny was a handsome young man of good heart and thick head, stumbling through an endless array of comedic misadventures with the aid of his long-suffering Thunderbolt, a powerful magical being Johnny could summon for an hour at a time by saying the magic words "CEI-U," pronounced "SAY YOU!" (The Thunderbolt, whose actual name was either Archibald or Oswald — Wentworth apparently couldn't decide which was funnier — was not a djinn, and where Grant Morrison later got that idea is beyond me.)

In his own strip, Johnny generally did not fight crime, at least not on purpose, being more preoccupied with trying to find a steady job so his long-suffering girlfriend Daisy Darling would marry him, while managing the chaos wrought by his foster daughter Peachy Pet, a hilariously pugnacious sixth grader who would sooner slug you than look at you. (Peachy Pet for a while was able to summon her own magical assistant, Thunderbolt's son Shocko, by saying the magic words "SEZ ME!") It was zany nonsense in the vein of the contemporary Looney Tunes cartoons, and sometimes very funny. However, with FLASH COMICS #86, Wentworth and Aschmeier departed in favor of Robert Kanigher and Alex Toth. They downplayed the silliness and the magical Thunderbolt in favor of a new supporting character called Black Canary, who wasn't as funny, but looked better in fishnets. By FLASH COMICS #92, she'd booted poor Johnny out of his own strip.

[the-firebird69]

These people suck his b****** sit there and aggravate him walk right up bother him through routines and they can't stand it if he comes up on the stupid Tumblr thing they get their asses handed to them what they do. It's nasty because they're being mean on purpose to evoke reaction they don't even know that they're getting beat up for doing the smallest stuff that's what he's saying he's having a problem with these people they're so dumb f****** stupid

-we have stuff to report and it's about this area it is Sunday they plan on seeing around bothering your son and we're going to start pulling them out of here last night 40 went out all 40 households and 30 came back for real everybody hates you idiots and you're down to 110 that's right it was 140 and I went to 130 now I said then it was at 1:20 last night it was night before actually now it's 1:10 households and those regiants don't come back.

-so we are putting hit on those two b****** and yeah we know what you're up to and you don't care if you don't take anything which is fine just have to do it faster

-parts of those groups and they're gone he knew a few of them about seven at least by site. Two of them were rolling towards the first ring from the second they're like halfway in and those rings are only about 10 miles wide or 5 MI at least two or five miles and he's hit the gas and I already got about 300 increase to 800 and they're trying to zoom over here and kidnap our son so they get killed. They're from Wentworth just seen him at St John's and I used to serve him at the outback. And he knew them as noel Bouvier and his brother Philip. Yeah those two died the other increasing speed they hit a few trees or bigger and the trees snapped in half as he most often do and it's going to just fast enough for it to hit the back of the truck on the way down and it flattened it for some reason and it's because it hit it so hard that it made it into some sort of weapon it's spun around on itself and smack the back of the truck and that caused the truck to lunch forwards and go up in the air a little and then caught air and came down and rolled into a ball literally and all crushed inside. The bitches are related to them they are threatening our son but not as much as people think and then wearing black so he says he's sorry for your loss you didn't get it along with him that great but he didn't get along with him that bad. And they hear that a lot and just doing things too and like a lot of people. So they get it whatever horrified when it was happening and tried to eject and injection system didn't work it was because it was too late

-and a few other things people have the 10 households and yeah the ones the 30 that returned they lost about five people out of the group which isn't too bad it's not too great either they're bouncing around the truck and died

-there a couple people more he knew from St John's. And yes his evil brother who blame him for hurting his family and his kids it doesn't make any sense but it didn't happen and our son says I'm bigger than them so what and he leaves and he comes back a lot he's saying stuff finally he says this I don't care much either this whole Town's got to go so this whole time is probably not Max the other ones who do that to people and he said to laugh little and said why cuz it'll take into account the human reaction people will get mad eventually people who are doing stuff torturous if he says okay so he figured it out finally. Well these two people knew Dave that is to go around with them and stuff and her son didn't really know them that much but he knows their names of Steve prefontaine and his brother and he said he died before he didn't and yeah it's getting down to 100 it's not that many households and that's all it is they were not really that bad and not that great but some of them had words with our son and bothered him quite a bit and so as well if I tell you it gets worse just tell us what you haven't changed to see there's no Republic he said oh s*** that explains it so yeah this is thousands of years of it and things kind of cuz silence a little one would probably start to drift off and it's dangerous and he says we're in trouble so you spread the word since some things like what you were saying is this little kid is aware let me know he's actually a baby trying and they know that you're bright people. unfortunately they crashed against the tree and they hit with such Force it was a big tree about 12 in and it was an elk and they don't like the oaks and it split in half went up over the truck and did it damage it came down halfway ripped a hole in it the milk is very hard and they couldn't believe it and truck begins to deteriorate and you're still driving this crappy ones this modern ones down below which would survive most of the stuff that it is getting into and they're not using them for some reason it's like a old fashioned military. vehicle. There's a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd and it's oak tree in my way it's really that smell that's the name of the song and they're singing it in the past and it is the crew that we're hit and it's pretty fun team prefontaine and they were killed almost instantly but that smell it's supposed to be women who are excited because of a death and they do stink pretty good and you smelled it before and it's fear and it was about an oak tree ironically that's what they hit and killed them so there's some funny business going on and the girls knew it and that's who they were they're not from the Bouvier's. They said this right before impact we're done for that was it

-there's a couple more and the others he just has seeing a little. Chuck and Steve and it was Chuck and he has no idea right now , used to bother him quite a bit and they rolled over around 50 times. After the third time someone's going this is old or getting old in the fourth time everyone was silent because they're dead they were ripped from their seats and the seats were flying around smashing them to a mash like in a blender and they were part of that band is not true the drive fast and insist on using these military vehicles that look like USA military and since it's just paint the thing . He says it's never seen a big truck military thing that size so what's the point. Jesus Christ the lady got it and said he doesn't care about that he's never seen one of these big truck things they look like the smaller ones so someone's stupid they deliver missiles with those he doesn't like this that's really awful it's really stinking stupid you guys are a real problem he got to it and figured it out and he started doing things and had to do some stuff and things are rolling it's really true that is terrible that's a dumb s*** he's going to get into a missile moving vehicle and probably not. You're going fast but not instantly and was screaming terror as they smashed into each other

-couple more that he knew sort of we mentioned Chuck and Steve and we went back to the prefontaine now well now we talked about how Chuck and Steve were crushed with each other and mashed

-it was friends of Carol and Dave again and they're kind of mean to our son at that party and some other things oxygen deprivation to keep doing it enjoy it and Dave told them not to the kept doing it we're there such almost pushed one off of balcony if David had to pretend is mad at him all night hey so you just leave don't come back here or we shoot you. What you saying anybody will get mad at and they started yelling at each other you're standing with Dave and Carol there's three of them and they're down below I started saying we can mess with your cars so we can call the cops I'll send Dave said leave or we're just going to shoot you and they left. They gave him s*** for years and he was was not really taking it he became weak and small and it took stuff he needed but boy at least some dumb people they actually bja and they're dead in hell debtors in hell they died a lot their truck was rolling it rolled about 50 times Friday came to a standstill and as one of them alive believe it or not the rest were disgusting bones everywhere blood and organs and their suits and stuff ripped apart is looking around thinking why did I survive you look down and he didn't have any legs and he said survives partially and he looked at me saw his legs above him and it fell down onto him hit him in the head and knocked him out and he didn't block it and felt it was probably his time to go so by the time I got there and they still haven't so really it's all rotted stuff that's how these people are dying was ridiculous llnotions knows about our son that don't even add up at all and I've been running around doing it for 10 years 15 years and it just trained idiots

I didn't tell you I don't think you have that great of a Time but there are some people working and those people are dying too and you people are messed to begin with like you said but really a few of you got it the other day these Max are working it and won't let you up and you look at him and start doing things and get worse he told those guys that they tried stuff and got worse I said whatever we can't help it then they said this it's really misery and it is it's tough they are a repulsive people and he told them a story he said they're out there in the desert mining spice and the grim reaper cuts their lines and carries a device I said no way and he told them that Dan said they're brutal and they wanted to know why and he didn't really know why yet Dave does so Dave told them if you do this I'll do this and you do these things or do these things they have all these things did they have people do and can close walls in you they're pretty big they're horrified and start looking and where horrified more and had to have more people look and it pushed a real revolution then they found out that they were getting food quite a bit and so instead I think they have the clones in front and it was true now this started a lot of stuff people are mad at these Max I want sunset about the trucks it's horrifying them and they know it's true cuz he looked it up and said I know what they're from and he doesn't like them it's a weapon of mass destruction doesn't mean where the Savior it means you're the ones who are listening

Thor Freya

Olympus

Is people are now horrible and live looking at the back so it's not really helping but they're at war with them and they need to

Hera

Zues

[yhwhrulz]

Today's Daily Encounter Wednesday, May 24, 2023

The Significance of the Teacher

"Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me."1

Recently, I read a beautiful legend about a king who decided to set aside a special day to honor his greatest subject. When the big day arrived, there was a large gathering in the palace courtyard. Four finalists were brought forward, and from these four, the king would select the winner.

The first person presented was a wealthy philanthropist. The king was told that this man was highly deserving of the honor because of his humanitarian efforts. He had given much of his wealth to the poor.

The second person was a celebrated physician. The king was told that this doctor was highly deserving of the honor because he had rendered faithful and dedicated service to the sick for many years.

The third person was a distinguished judge. The king was told that the judge was worthy because he was noted for his wisdom, his fairness, and his brilliant decisions.

The fourth person presented was an elderly woman. Everyone was quite surprised to see her there because her manner was quite humble, as was her dress. She hardly looked the part of someone who would be honored as the greatest subject in the kingdom. What chance could she possibly have, when compared to the other three, who had accomplished so much? Even so, there was something about her, the look of love in her face, the understanding in her eyes, her quiet confidence.

The king was intrigued, to say the least, and somewhat puzzled by her presence. He asked who she was. The answer came: "You see the philanthropist, the doctor, and the judge? Well, she was their teacher!"

The woman had no wealth, no fortune, and no title, but she had unselfishly given her life to produce great people. There is nothing more powerful or more Christ-like than sacrificial love and the time invested in others. The king had not seen the value in the humble lady. He missed the significance of the teacher.

God has placed people in our lives who have helped our development as disciples of Jesus in one way or another. I think of people like Elsie, the elderly woman who took me under her wing when I was a child and taught me how to pray, and Mrs. Wentworth, my Sunday school teacher, who was there when I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Others may have seen them like the elderly woman in the story above, but to me, these godly women played an integral part in creating a firm foundation of faith for me to continue growing. There was one thing that both women had in common… they abided in The Vine, as He in them. Because of this their lives produced much fruit that remains to this day, even though they have been in the presence of the Lord for some time now.

Let this example serve as an encouragement to us friends. Do you want to have a lasting impact in the lives of others? Would you like to see them reach their God given potential? How amazing would it be to see those we served go on to do amazing things for the Kingdom of God? We will only be able to develop disciples if we are disciples ourselves. If we try to do things our way, separate from Jesus, our work will be in vain. But when we remain in Jesus, and allow Him to remain in us, we will produce good fruit.

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, help me never forget the significance of staying connected to you, my teacher. Please work in my life, prune me where needed, and allow me to produce much fruit for your glory and honor. Because apart from you, I can do nothing. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. In Jesus' name, amen."John 15:4 (NIV).

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[antebellumite]

But despite the bravado, Adams’s words ate at Wise, who refuted them almost literally until the day he died. .... French’s friend “Long John” Wentworth (D-IL) had good reason to praise Adams’s “sledge-hammer" eloquence. Adams used rules to force his way onto the floor. Wise used rules as muzzles. Throughout his eleven-year congressional career, he hounded opponents with calls to order and stymied their efforts with meandering speeches that tested the bounds of the relevant. (In 1836, he wearily sighed that “he should remember that word relevant to the day of his death.”) His tirades routinely drove men to distraction; once, he worked himself into such a lather that he fainted. Speaker of the House James K. Polk (D-TN) was hard put to stop him; Wise alternately mocked, ignored, insulted, and challenged him in his ongoing campaign to advance his cause and destroy his foes, including Polk himself. Wise was a master of the legislative roadblock, a champion rule warrior. For years, Wise and Adams engaged in an intricate game of point-counterpoint, sometimes fighting a war of rules, sometimes a war of words. Almost by signal, when Adams spoke, Wise jumped up in protest. Adams returned the favor, objecting so frequently during one debate that a Globe reporter described him as “jumping up and down like the key of a piano.” (“Mr. A. to all appearance, did not listen with much patience,” he added with marked understatement.)

The two were a matched set: the brash young Virginian, twenty-seven years old when he took his seat in 1834, and the acerbic senior statesman, fearless in a fight. They were the “ruling spirits of disorganization and confusion in this House,” complained a colleague, “such a complete match; that if they were put in a bag together, and well shaken, he did not know which would fall out first.”

--- The Field of Blood by Joanne B. Freeman

[ao3feed-mcshep]

Drabble Fest 2022

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ZMRBNK1

by Tarlan

16 drabbles written for Allbingo Drabble Fest 2022

Words: 1597, Chapters: 16/16, Language: English

Fandoms: Eureka (TV), Black Sails, The Walking Dead (TV), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Alien Quadrilogy (Movies), Stargate Atlantis, The Chronicles of Riddick Series, World War Z (2013), Blood Ties (TV), Lethal Weapon (Movies), Persuasion (1995), The Mummy (2017), Adventure Inc., The Fugitive (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M, F/M

Characters: Jack Carter (Eureka), Nathan Stark, Captain Flint | James McGraw, Daryl Dixon, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, The Sulaco (Aliens), John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Richard B. Riddick, Gerry Lane, Henry FitzRoy Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Mike Celluci, Martin Riggs, Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Nick Morton, Judson Cross, Stefan George, Samuel Gerard

Relationships: Jack Carter/Nathan Stark, Daryl Dixon/Rick Grimes, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Mike Celluci/Henry Fitzroy, Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth, Judson Cross/Stefan George

Additional Tags: Drabble Collection, Community: allbingo

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[practicevewor]

297 pound hay budden anvil

W., Petersham 78 Collin B., Alburyħ9 Collins Wm., Narrabri 80 Condon P., BurkeĨ2 Constable H., Broken Hill 83 Conroy M., Broken HillĨ4 Conway Mrs. J., Broken Hill 67 Clifford C., Petershamħ1 Clugston Miss B.} East Orange 72 Cockroft J., Petersham 73 Cohen R., Leichhardtħ4 Cole Mrs. D., GoulburnĦ3 Clemens W, F., Mogil Mogil G4 Clement E., Bourke (2)Ħ6 Clement W. Petersĥ1 Choice J., Burta Station 52 Christie C., Moulameinĥ3 Christmas Miss M., Camperdown (2) 55 Clanay P., Cootamundra 56 Clark A, Booligalĥ7 Clark G., Moinbria Station 58 Clark G., Hillston (2)Ħ0 Clark John, Broken Hill 61 Clark T, Cochrane Creek 62 Clark W. Wm., Deniliquin 48 Chii Wa, GranvilleĤ9 Child Mrs. W., Summer Hill 45 Charles W., Grongroe Station 46 Charlton Wm., BourkeĤ7 Chicken, Mrs. W., Narrabri 38 Cemm Joseph, Newcastle 39 Chaboty M., AnuandaleĤ0 Chambers H. P., Narrandera 22 Carne H., NarramineĢ4 Carr John, Gunbar Station 25 Carr T., DeniliquinĢ7 Carroll T.„ Milroy Station 28 Carson Jas., Silverton 29 Carter James, Bourkeģ0 Cartwright C., East Maitland 31 Carver Wm, Rand wickģ2 Casey J., Woowooma Station 33 Caskey John, Broken Hill 34 Castle A., Gulgong 35 Castle C., Grenfellģ7 Cavauougli D. J., Newcastle 4 Callington F., Wentwerth 5 Callan Mr., Albury 6 Camell W., Bunnaħ Cameron A., Werai Station (2) 9 Cameron Alex., Cudgen Scrubġ0 Cameron A., Goolgumbla Station 11 Cameron D., Moamaġ2 Cameron D., Wentworth 13 Cameron John, Bourkeġ7 Campbell James, Weinteriga Station 18 Campion J., Sandy Creek Station 19 Carlson O., WilcanniaĢ1 Carmody J. M., Deniliquin (6) 150 Byrnes C., Tarcoolaġ CAIN James, Moorara Station 2 Callaghan Mrs. B., Broken Hill 142 Byass P., Broken Hillġ44 Byrne C. G., Parramatta Road 139 Butler H., Louthġ40 Butterson H., Frederickton 141 Byass P. W., Whittonġ30 Burke Walter, Oualy Station 131 Burn E., Mittagongġ32 Burns F., Bulgoo Station 133 Burrell W., Goodoogaġ34 Burt Harry, sen., Broken Hill 135 Burt James, sen., Broken Hill 136 Bushe Paul, Hillstonġ38 Butler Mrs. W., Uralla 123 Buckley Mrs., Randwickġ25 Bueckner F. E., Newcastle 119 Buchanan A., Balranaldġ22 Buckland C. C., Parramattaġ17 Bruck & Berry, Broken Hill 118 Bruss Capt. J., Broken Hill 113 Brown T., Silverton (2)ġ15 Brown W., Goolgambla Station 116 Bruce J. S., Loutliġ10 Brown Jno., Tweed Heads 111 Brown P., Broken Hillġ12 Brown W. C., Muhvala 107 Brown G, E., Deniliquin 10S Brown H., Joadja Creek 109 Brown J. J., Torrington 103 Brooken W., Newcastle 104 Brough Bros., Wilcanniaġ05 Brown Mr., Cudgen Scrub 106 Brown Mrs. W., Silverton 100 Brooks G., Granville 101 Brooks T., Pooncarieġ02 Broomfield Mrs. S., Cobham 94 Brindley J., Pooncarieĩ6 Broadbent James, Lcichhardt 97 Bromberg E., Br.okcn Hill 98 Brooke A. T., Broken Hill 87 Bree John C., Wollongong S8 Brennan C., Corowaĩ0 Brennan J, S, Mount Brown (2) 92 Brent Mr., Botany Bay 93 Briggs E. S3 Branfield W., Barringun 84 Bramwell John, BulliĨ5 Bray Mrs. A., Begaħ8 Boylan John, Leichhardt 79 Boyle D, Wentworth (2)Ĩ1 BrackenrigC. T, Broken Hill (2) 70 Bourke E., Hillstonħ1 Bowan W., Broken Hill 72 Bowden G., Pictonħ5 Bowen Mrs, G., Cockbum 76 Bowen G., Cockbum 76½ Bower G., Clifton 77 Boyce G.

[free-for-all-fics]

Obscure Character List - Male Edition (A-M)

Obscure Characters List - Male Edition

Obscure Characters I love for some reason (A-M). (By obscure I mean characters that have little to no fanfic written about them. Not necessarily characters nobody’s ever heard of.) Don’t ask me to explain why. UPDATED: Tumblr is being a butt about post length or something so I’m splitting up the lists.

A

Abraham Alastor/Anthony Clarke (Dark Pictures Little Hope)

Adam (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Adam (Hallmark Frankenstein 2004)

Al Capone (Night at the Museum)

Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Alec Fell (Nancy Drew, The Silent Spy)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Amphibian Man/The Asset (Shape of Water)

André Toulon (Puppetmaster series)

Anthony Walsh (Blood Fest)

Anton Herzen (Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box)

Ardeth Bay (Mummy series)

Armand (Queen of the Damned 2002)

Armando Salazar (Pirates of the Caribbean 5)

B

Barnaby (Sabrina Down Under)

Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)

Baron Meinster (Brides of Dracula)

Beast/Hank McCoy (X-Men, Kelsey Grammer version)

Beast/Prince (Beauty and the Beast 2014)

Ben Willis (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

Bernard the elf (Santa Clause series)

Black Phillip (The VVitch)

Blade (Puppetmaster series)

Bughuul (Sinister 1 and 2)

C

Caliban/John Clare (Penny Dreadful)

Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

Captain James Hook (Peter Pan 2003)

Cedric Brown (Nanny McPhee)

Christian Thompson (Devil Wears Prada)

Colonel William Tavington (The Patriot)

Cornelis Sandvoort (Tulip Fever)

Crown Prince Ryand'r/Darkfire (DC comics/Teen Titans)

D

Daniel Le Domas (Ready Or Not)

Death (Final Destination series)

Dimitri Allen (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future)

Dimitri Denatos (Mom’s Got a Date With a Vampire)

Dustfinger (Inkheart)

Dr. Alexander Sweet/Dracula (Penny Dreadful)

Dr. Gregory Butler (Happy Death Day 1 & 2)

Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen)

Driller Killer (Slumber Party Massacre 2)

E

Edward Gracey (Haunted Mansion 2003) 

Edward Mordrake (Urban Legend/American Horror Story Asylum)

Edward/Eddie “Tex” Sawyer (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3)

Elemer of the Briar (Elden Ring)

Erik Carriere (Phantom of the Opera 1990)

Ethan (Pilgrim 2019)

F

Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne)

Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Fegan Floop (Spy Kids trilogy)

Fox Mask/Tom (You’re next)

G

George Knightley (Emma)

Ghost/Mitch (Haunt 2019)

Godskin Apostle (Elden Ring)

Godwyn the Golden (Elden Ring)

Gold Watchers (Dark Deception)

Greg (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies)

Grim Matchstick (Cuphead)

Gurranq Beast Clergyman (Elden Ring)

H

Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (Broadway, Rob Evan version)

Henry Sturges (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Hugh Crain (Haunting of Hill House, the book and 1963 film. Not the Flanagan show or 1999 movie remake)

Hugo Butterly (Nancy Drew, Danger by Design)

I

Ingemar (Midsommar)

J

Jack Ferriman (Ghost Ship)

Jack Worthing/Uncle Jack (We Happy Few)

Jafar (Once Upon a Time, not the Wonderland spin-off)

Jan Valek (John Carpenter’s Vampires)

Jefferson “Seaplane” McDonough/Alex (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter (Arkhamverse! Video Games)

Jester (Puppetmaster series)

John (He’s Out There)

Joseph “Joey” Mallone (Blackwell series)

Juan (The Forever Purge)

Juno Hoslow, Knight of Blood (Elden Ring)

K

Kalabar (Halloweentown)

Kenneth Haight (Elden Ring)

Killer Moth/Drury Walker (Teen Titans)

King Paimon (Hereditary)

L

Lamb Mask/Craig (You’re next)

Lamplighter (The Boys)

Launder Man (Crypt TV)

Lawrence “Larry” Gordon (Saw series)

Loki (Apsulov: End of Gods)

Lucifer (Devil’s Carnival 1 & 2)

M

Magic Mirror (Snow White 1937/Shrek)

Man in the Mask (The Strangers)

Manon (The Craft)

Man-Thing (Marvel’s Werewolf By Night)

Marco Polo/Merman (Crypt TV)

Marcus Corvinus (Underworld series)

Markus Boehm (Nancy Drew, the Captive Curse)

Mephistopheles (Faust’s Albtraum)

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare (Bloodborne)

Miquella (Elden Ring)

Mirror Man (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Mr. Crow/Aldous Vanderboom (Rusty Lake series)

Mr. Le Bail (Ready Or Not)

Mr. Slausen (Tourist Trap)

[onlylonelylatino]

Origin of Sargon the Sorcerer by Howard Purcell

[dailyjsa]

All-Star Comics #2

Writer: John B. Wentworth

Artist: Stan Aschmeier

Inker: Stan Aschmeier

[dwellordream]

“Identifying pregnancy was fraught with missteps and uncertainty. In a body still strongly influenced by humoral ideas of flow and balance, the physical indications of conception could also indicate a stoppage or obstruction. While menstrual regularity was perceived as important for health, it was not necessarily a signifier of conception. Women relied on their experience and their own bodily knowledge to differentiate between pregnancy and illness. 

As newly married women in the top tier of late eighteenth-century society, the sisters Judith Millbanke, Sophia Curzon and Eliza Burges (daughters of Edward Noel, Viscount Wentworth and Judith Lamb) wrote regularly about possible indications that they may have conceived. In 1777 for example, Judith wrote to her aunt Mary Noel that ‘I am still in the same State of uncertainty as when I wrote last … was I not so very well I should be apt to entertain hopes’. She was no more certain three weeks later when she complained that ‘No alteration has happened since you saw me, but within this last week I am certainly larger, but alas! it may be fat’.

By 28 December it transpired that she had indeed been mistaken. Similarly, Eliza wrote to Judith in 1779 that ‘I must now subscribe to the information you have recvd of my situation as a true Bill, but could not have been justified in saying the same when I saw you in Town, because I myself had hardly a suspicion of it’. Obstetric manuals skirted round the issue of identifying pregnancy by assuming that women would be in possession of at least some informal knowledge of pregnancy and birth. 

John Aitken wrote in his widely circulated treatise on puerperal physiology, ‘The early state of pregnancy, or its existence for the first three or four months, is not always easily detected.’ His Dutch counterpart Hendrik van Deventer, who was hugely influential on the writings of the celebrated Scottish obstetrician William Smellie, declined to discuss the ways in which pregnancy might be detected, noting: ‘It is most certain, even by Experience, that the Signs of Impregnation are uncertain, and fallible in the first Months, wherefore we shall not give them a Place in this Book.’

The 1652 edition of the popular medical treatise A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets, widely recognized as an amalgamation of previously published works on childbearing, anticipated that the mother would recognize the early signs of pregnancy. It suggested that the pregnant woman change her lifestyle ‘So soon as the woman shall begin to be with child, which she shall easily know’. Smellie complained that the minutiae or first principles of bodies being without the sphere of human comprehension, all that we know is by the observation of their effects; so that the modus of conception is altogether uncertain, especially in the human species, because opportunities of opening [dissecting] pregnant women so seldom occur.

For Smellie, the identification of pregnancy was possible only when the uterus ‘distended in proportion to the augmentation of its contents’. The impact of pregnancy on the mother’s body is entirely absent from professor of midwifery Alexander Hamilton’s account of conception, though he conceded that ‘it is exceedingly difficult to ascertain the proportional growth or progress of the foetus in the womb’.

Margaret Stephen, a practising midwife and teacher of midwifery, took a more holistic approach to the body in her description of early pregnancy, citing nausea, an increased frequency of urination and food cravings as indicative of conception, though she qualified her observations by noting, ‘yet many of these symptoms may exist when a woman is not with child’. These texts implied that early signs of pregnancy should be recognized by the woman through changes in her personal health since her condition would be almost undetectable to a medical practitioner. 

Women acquired the reproductive knowledge necessary to identify their pregnancies from a mosaic of sources. The births of brothers and sisters, the pregnancies of neighbours and even their experience of animal husbandry all fed into the creation of women’s practical knowledge about childbirth. While young, unmarried women were excluded from the birthing chamber during the delivery of a child, they were not absent from the wider social and cultural processes that surrounded pregnancy and birth. 

The conversations and encounters that facilitated the acquisition of reproductive knowledge are difficult to access, but there are echoes of them in written sources. One of these echoes is the way in which women identified their own and other women’s pregnancies. Unmarried women and men were not excluded from conversations about childbirth. Participating in such conversations undoubtedly informed young women’s understandings of reproductive processes, as did the sights and sounds around them.

The case against Nanny Hollingworth, a Yorkshire woman who was accused of murdering her twins in 1799, shows how young women might regularly share and acquire information about pregnancy and birth. Nanny’s unmarried friend deposed that she ‘remembers that about five weeks ago she was in Company with her … when they all joked with the said Nanny Hollingworth about her being with Child’. Molly Bradbury, who was also unmarried, testified ‘that the said Nanny Hollingworth put her the witnesses hand upon her Belly, which felt very hard’.

Sarah Heywood, a sixteen-year-old witness who was at Nanny Hollingworth’s house to buy milk, deposed that ‘she [Nanny] complained of being ill … and [the] witness thought that she was or had been with Child or in Labour’. Despite being young and unmarried, the witnesses in this case were sufficiently knowledgeable about the signs of pregnancy and birth to discuss it among themselves and to give statements to the parish authorities. Elite women, for whom the production of an heir was important, also watched each other’s bodies for signs of conception. 

The letters between Frances Ingram and Susan Stewart regularly included news about the fertility and birth experiences of women they knew. In a letter dated 8 November 1787 Frances wrote to her friend that ‘Many of my friends have mentioned Lady Bol as being in a Quandary, but what it is about I do not very well know’; she continued, ‘except a Country Neighbour’s report is true that she has increased the St. John family without any connivance of my Lord’.

Lady Bol’s alleged infidelity made her pregnancy particularly newsworthy, but Frances’s letters are full of similar details of pregnancy and birth. In another letter between Frances and Susan dated 14 January 1777, following Susan’s delivery of a daughter, Frances wrote: ‘No soul told me you was brought to bed till at last Miss Finch came from Mrs Sneyds & informed me you was possessed of another little girl and had been ill.’

In this particular instance, the information about Susan’s delivery and subsequent illness had passed through at least two women (one unmarried) before it reached her friend. Birth and its associated complications were clearly not unusual topics of conversation for Frances and her contemporaries, both married and unmarried. The close proximity of eighteenth-century life allowed pregnancy and childbirth to be easily observed. 

For those of lower social status, shared accommodation and thin partition walls meant that neighbours could hear sexual activity, any subsequent morning sickness and, eventually, the groans of childbirth. Changes in eating patterns might also be observed and pregnancy-related cravings commented on. When Elizabeth Woodman, a servant, was accused of murdering her newborn infant in 1768, for example, her mistress pointedly deposed to the investigating coroner that ‘she never refused her vituals (excepting one Sunday)’.

Elizabeth’s unaltered eating patterns appear to have gone some way to alleviate her employer’s suspicions that she was pregnant. Betsy Ramsden’s husband, William, commented on her pregnancy-related cravings in a letter that he wrote to Elizabeth Shackleton in 1767. He complained that ‘My wife is so dear a lover of Venison that had not a Haunch most fortunately fallen in our way … my next little Boy might have come into the World with a Cloven Hoof’.

The tone of his letter was jovial, but he was repeating long-standing beliefs that foods that were craved or eaten to excess during pregnancy might imprint themselves on the body of the infant. Even the frequency with which shifts were washed might be subject to scrutiny as an indication of a change in menstrual regularity. This information might then be shared and discussed between family members, neighbours and acquaintances. 

The moment at which the mother felt the infant move was known as quickening. Among the uncertainty of the early signs of conception, quickening was a milestone in pregnancy, as one of the few certain indications that the infant existed. It represented what the seventeenth-century midwifery author Jane Sharp called the ‘ensoulment’ of the infant – the moment the foetus  became human.

While it was widely accepted that this happened in the third month of pregnancy, it was common for first-time mothers not to recognize the sensation. Once the movement of the infant had been felt, the mother could make an attempt to predict the date of her delivery. As a matter of some uncertainty, it is unsurprising that this was also a popular topic of conversation between friends and neighbours. Quickening was also the beginning of what Sarah Knott described as the ‘inner touch’ – that persistent and growing sensation of having a body growing within.

Yet women’s embodied experiences of this inner touch were not always described in such benign terms. When she was pregnant in 1764 Frances Ingram described her quickening as having ‘a certain little thing of the smallest dimensions’ take ‘possession of my internals’. Her use of the term ‘certain’ not only refers obliquely to the foetus but also implies her bodily experience of birthing and her certainty that the sensations were an indication of pregnancy. 

The idea that the foetus had taken physical possession of her body forms part of a narrative of maternal bodily sacrifice that characterizes birthing during the eighteenth century. From the point of quickening, women’s embodied experiences of birthing were rapid and constantly changing. Joanne Begiato has shown the importance of the language of size in women’s descriptions of pregnancy in the eighteenth century, particularly the term ‘increase’ or ‘encrease’.

This term was sometimes used figuratively to refer to the increasing size of the family, and also to discuss the changing physicality of women’s bodies. Jane Scrimshire described her pregnancy as a ‘complaint … of the Encreasing kind’ in a letter to her friend Elizabeth Parker (later Shackleton) in 1756.57 Similarly, Sophia Curzon referred to ‘us fatning Ladies’ in a letter to her aunt complaining about Lady Gould’s frightening appearance in 1778.

For pregnant women, the changing shape of their bodies was only one element of the gradually intensifying physical and psychological experiences of birthing. The gentle inner touch of quickening would give way to more distinct physical sensations as the infant grew. Mrs Ramsden, a correspondent of Frances Ingram, complained in 1761 that ‘my little thing begins to be troublesome & moves rather violently at times’. Her physical discomfort created a conflicting emotional response, for ‘I wish from my Heart it was safely arrived’. 

Before the discovery of foetal heartbeat monitoring in 1819, foetal movement was the only way to know whether the infant remained alive in utero. The violent movements to which Mrs Ramsden refers could cause her to meditate on the outcomes of birthing for the infant. Women also expressed concerns for their own safety during pregnancy. Sarah Wesley, who was married to the co-founder of Methodism Charles Wesley, had clearly expressed her fears of death during childbirth to her husband, for he later wrote to her: ‘You shall not die, but live & declare ye works of the Lord. My dearest Sally [Sarah] cannot but be some times afraid, yet put yr trust in the Lord – who hath delivered and will deliver.’

He sought to reassure her by adding that ‘Mr Bridge’s daughter I left in yr condition. She is now a Mother: & as hearty as you was 2 months after ye Delivery. So is her son and Heir.’ Jane Scrimshire wrote with grim resignation to her friend Elizabeth Parker about her plans ‘If I Live till Spring’. Rebekah Bateman, the wife of a Manchester cotton merchant, experienced similar concerns. Towards the end of her first pregnancy, she wrote a will ‘in case I am call’d away in giving birth to another’.

Using a combination of parish registers and bills of mortality, Irvine Loudon has argued that provincial maternal mortality reduced steadily by around 30 per cent between 1700 and 1850, to a figure of only fifty deaths per 10,000, or 0.5 per cent. Yet, as Loudon acknowledges, women’s fears of birthing were shaped not by the maternal mortality rate but by their perception of it. He notes that birthing accounted for one death in every five women of childbearing age, that is, between twenty-four and thirty-five years. It is therefore highly likely that pregnant women knew at least one woman of a similar age to them who had died giving birth. The changing pregnant body could be a source of both comfort and fear.”

- Sarah Fox, “Birth and the Body.” in Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Saturday 11 April 1835

8 20

11 55

no kiss fine morning F48° at 9 5 am at which hour breakfast and at downstairs reading till 10 50 from p. 181 to 195 Philip of Idiopathic fevers - John took before breakfast my letter written last night as above to ‘Messrs. Jonathan Gray and son solicitors Petergate York post paid’ - out at 11 5 sometime with Charles H- and John Mann in the joiners’ shop - talking about the Spiggs coal pit - then had Charles planning a granary over part of the new coach house and bottle cratches and lumber etc cupboard in the laundry - had Mr Freeman from about (before) 12 to 2 20 - out with A- at 2 35 left her at the Cliff Hill gate close to the house- walked leisurely back by the old highroad - paid Charles H- senior for the compass I had from him sometime ago - went up to Walker pit - told Joseph Mann to try and agree with Pickells for a gin horse for a few days or a week by the day and to send Holt’s horse home for fear it should die with us - have had 4 days - then giving orders to John - to get his brother to come and what jobs to set him - then giving orders to Charles Howarth and set out railing in Allen car for Richard Woodhead to do in my absence - then up again at Walker pit to lock up the gin shafts with a padlock from home Holt having promised but failed to get one - came in at 6 10 - wrote the last 6 lines - and wrote 4 pages of ½ sheet and 3 or 4 lines on envelope (what I wrote on Thursday would not do) and wrote under the seal small and close to Lady VC- of what I wrote on Thursday - dinner at 7 - sent off at 7 ½ my letter to ‘the honourable Lady Stuart 21 Grosvenor Place’ and enclosed with it my letter to ‘the Lady Vere Cameron’ both undercover to ‘Lord Stuart de Rothesay 3 Carlton house Terrace London’ - Mr Washington waited about ½ hour till we had done dinner - A- with him while I came up to dress and went down again to coffee at 7 55 - Mr Washington staid till 9 ½ - with my aunt ¼ hour till 10 10 - had just before going to her had letter from Mr Jonathan Gray to say he would be at home and would call on us at 6 pm on Monday and kind letter one ½ sheet full from lady Stuart de R- skimmed over the London paper came upstairs at 11 ¼ - fine day F49° now at 11 ¼ pm - Mr Freeman came about Barber’s information against the 2 young men - all against B- said he had informed against these two youths tho’ he confessed he had seen Gill come in the right and fetch trees away and had never told because he was afraid if he had Gill would have murdered - I said if Mr F- would stand to this it was reason enough to turn B- off said I was going from home - would meet Mr F- in the wood and have B- before us on my return - F- had been much hurt fancied I was offended against him - quoting the conclusion of my note (vid. line 6p. 19 - explained that) merely meant that whoever was wrong Gill had beaten both F- and me  and that tho’ I was absolutely in want of stakes and buildings at the time I could neither get them from Gill nor get any value from them from any one  - luckily consulted Mr F- about an architect and engineer - it seems Mr. Bradley had nearly got out of F- £300 and in the same almost swindling sort of way for £1500 out of Wentworth’s and Chaloners’ bank

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at Wakefield - Bradley not a man to be depended on - very idle - never right in his estimates - not fit to be an architect except a soft stone country - not fit for stone like ours - once gave F- an order for a portico (Corinthian capitals etc) estimate £20 and F- told him he could not get the work done under £25 let alone price of stone - I said this would never do for me - mentioned my intention of making Northgate house into a good Inn - F- thought it would answer very well - he mentioned Johnstone of Lichfield, and also Potter an elderly man (also of Lichfield) very clever who built Stafford jail and infirmary - but Mr. Bernard Hartley aetatis about 55 of Pontefract (employed for the country) one of the most honest men to be found - he might be interested implicitly - Jesse Hartley of Liverpool brother to Bernard also an architect - Mr. Thomas Lees of Cheetham hill, Manchester, a very clever man, but not quite to be taken of his word - F- did not know of any engineer - said Rag Covers from 4 to 6 in. thick enough to be carted by Mark Hepworth e.g. and delivered (from F-‘s Northowram quarry) at Denmark engine pit at 2/3 per superficial yard - 9 square ft. = 1 superficial yard .:. a goit 5ft. wide (i.e. requiring bottoms of 6ft. long) would take 1 ½ superficial yards per yard in length - therefore my 5ft. wide goit will cost ¾ ½ per yard in length for bottoms - suppose the goit costs 12/.

Bottoms per linear yard = 3.4 ½

Tops ditto ditooo = 3.4 ½

Side walling stones = 1.0 ?

Labour walling and digging = 4.0

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per yard – and the arched part might not cost more for F- would have me buy field wall stones (by the lump) for it

this hearing about Bradley is terrible - but it is well, nothing is absolutely began - I must look about me for somebody else - what a pity so much time has been lost! - note this morning from Mr Parker with my bill and cash account and papers of my field purchased of Mr S. Washington and a deed relating to the Staups purchase - ‘Mr Mitchell called this morning and proposed fixing a price upon the lower George when he had seen Mr Bateman’ - I should have returned some answer this evening as Mr P- is going to London tomorrow but for matter escaped my memory - nice letter from lady Stuart de R- impossible to say what will be done - Lord Grey has failed to make a ministry ditto Lord Melbourne - ‘if Lord Lansdowne excludes Lord Bingham and chances to give office to O’ Connell, I think he will be more mad than the ex. chancellor’ - Lady S- de R- will be out of London at Easter for a week ‘and then must be back to present Louisa! who is really grown up I hope, or she will be too tall - she and Charlotte and papa all desire kind remembrances and believe me very truly yours E. Stuart de Rothesay’ -

my letter to V- merely a kind letter of congratulation on the birth of the young laird - and my letter to lady Stuart merely thanks for her telling me so immediately of V-‘s confinement and affectionate inquires after and hopes about Lady S-‘s own health - her letter had alarmed me and prepared me in some sort for the melancholy political news of the resignation of minsters -