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Title
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Children's Literature
Description
An account of the resource
The children's literature in the Gomatos Collection dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, and includes several editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, featured here.
Dublin Core
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Title
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<em>Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland </em>And<em> Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There</em>
Description
An account of the resource
<p><em>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</em> is an 1865 novel written by Lewis Carroll. He tells the story of a young girl named Alice who tumbles down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world colonized by unusual creatures, including the famous Mad Hatter. Alice finds herself in numerous fantastical situations that parody the life of Victorian England. Carroll continues her adventures in <em>Through the Looking Glass</em> chronicling her adventures to become a queen. Alice again encounters various oddities in her quest compounded by things being reversed in the image of the looking glass.</p>
<br />
<p>Marymount University’s Gomatos Collection has a number of vintage copies of Carroll’s famous novel. This edition, published by the Henry Altemus Company of Philadelphia, PA, not only contains her first adventures, but Carroll’s sequel, <em>Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There</em>. The library has cataloged this copy as being published in 1890. However, there is a <a href="http://www.henryaltemus.com/alice/alice.htm">website</a> that suggests that this copy was part of the Riviere series, which was produced in 1901 for one year only. The reprints in this edition stay faithful to the original as well as containing the artwork of John Tenneil.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The pictures of the inside cover, the title page, and the inscription were chosen because they were unique to this edition. The remaining pages were chosen as representative of the book as a whole.</p>
Creator
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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Philadelphia : H. Altemus Co.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1890-?]
Contributor
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Viernes Rachel
Renkiewicz John
Zelaya Leticia
Format
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[12], 192 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
http://catalog.wrlc.org/search/index.php
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Title
A name given to the resource
Children's Literature
Description
An account of the resource
The children's literature in the Gomatos Collection dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, and includes several editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, featured here.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
<em>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</em>
Description
An account of the resource
<p><em>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</em> is a widely popular and classic children's tale written by the renowned English author Lewis Carroll. The famous novel follows a curious young girl named Alice, who meets various colorful and eccentric characters in a fantastical world of whimsy and nonsense. Produced in 1907, a variant of the celebrated tale was co-published by William Heinemann (London) and Doubleday Page and Co. (New York). In this particular version, Arthur Rackham creatively illustrates Alice's many episodes with his signature and unique style, which complements Carroll’s imaginative narrative perfectly. His distinct and charming series of thirteen color plates and fourteen line drawings are accompanied with printed tissue overleaf and pictorial endpapers. The copy also features a delightful proem by Austin Dobson at its opening, as well as an intriguing vignette printed within the front and back cover. The cover of the piece is constructed of stamped red cloth, decorated with a colored illustration of The Mock Turtle's Story.</p>
<br />
<p>Displayed above, are numerous images which provide excellent repsentations of Rackham's unique creative style. Along with the images of the plates there are pages from the novel where the more simplistic line drawings are shown. Selections from the story related to the plates are also included.</p>
Creator
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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Publisher
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London : W. Heinemann ; New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1907]
Contributor
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Davis, Hope
Herbert, Madison
Format
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xi, 161 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
A language of the resource
English
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4017575
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Poetry
Description
An account of the resource
The Gomatos Collection has a varied selection of poetry, ranging from single-author works to anthologies compiled for the purposes of education or entertainment.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
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Title
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<em>The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts</em>
Subject
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Botany, Natural Science, Natural Philosophy
Creator
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<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/erasmus-darwin%20" target="_blank">Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802</a>
Publisher
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New York: Printed by T&J Swords
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1798
Contributor
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Lawton, Jordan
Torrico, Julia
Format
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2v. :ill.; 23cm
Language
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English
Type
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Poem
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
<a href="https://wrlc-mar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9940174503604106&context=L&vid=01WRLC_MAR:01WRLC_MAR&search_scope=DN_and_CI&tab=DN_and_CI&lang=en">https://wrlc-mar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9940174503604106&context=L&vid=01WRLC_MAR:01WRLC_MAR&search_scope=DN_and_CI&tab=DN_and_CI&lang=en</a>
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Erasmus Darwin’s <em>The Botanic Garden, </em>originally published in two volumes in 1792, was praised as a bestseller. <em>Part Two: The Loves of the Plants</em> was published in 1789, and <em>Part One: The Economy of Vegetation</em> was published in 1791 (Priestman). According to <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/erasmus-darwin">The Poetry Foundation</a>, <em>The Botanic Garden</em> is “structured in rhyming couplets with extensive footnotes [that] addresses a series of scientific concerns, including the beginnings of Darwin’s theory of evolution.” <br /><br /><em>The Botanic Garden</em> is a long poem divided into two sections. The first section, <em>The Economy of Vegetation</em>, is organized into four cantos, each of which focuses on botany and natural science. According to "<a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T001&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=2&docId=GALE%7CCX2356300089&docType=Critical+essay%2C+Work+overview&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GLS&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2356300089&searchId=R2&userGroupName=vic_marymount&inPS=true" target="_blank">The Botanic Garden: The Economy of Vegetation</a>," the format of the first section contains four cantos that focuses on a particular natural affinity that connects to other natural elements in the world; “Canto I focuses on fire, Canto II focuses on earth, Canto III focuses on water, and Canto IV focuses on air." <br /><br /><em>The Economy of Vegetation</em> is recognized as the more successful portion of The Botanic Garden. <em>The Loves of the Plants</em> is also divided into four cantos, and it is narrated by the Goddess of Botany. Both volumes contain footnotes that are detailed scientific observations and extensive explanations on the mythologies involved in the poems. According to Martin Priestman, author of <em>The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin</em>, “the two parts [of the poem] are so different that it makes sense to call each [section] a poem in its own right” (23). <br /><br />Categorized as a didactic poem, <em>The Botanic Garden's</em> purpose was to educate the public on plant life and to present Darwin’s admiration for plants and natural science. The book popularized the study of scientific investigation. This particular work not only interested and inspired scientists, but it also inspired works by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, including her novel <em>Frankenstein</em> (1832). <em>The Economy of Vegetation</em> includes a “Rosicrucian doctrine” that relates cultural mythology, philosophy and history to the societal values of Darwin’s time. According to the article <em>Botany for Gentleman: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants</em>, it is suggested that <em>The Loves of the Plants</em> reinforced the male view of feminine behavior in the late 1700s. Based on the ideas of natural science in <em>The Botanic Garden</em>, the poem did not experience any religious backlash, and his poem was praised by the scientific community. <br /><br />Later on, the poem and Darwin did receive speculation of how he created <em>The Botanic Garden</em>. Priestman explains that the lengthy opening of <em>The Economy of Vegetation</em> may have been borrowed “or perhaps [was] stolen from Anna Seward’s [an eighteenth-century English Romantic poet] ‘Verses Written in Dr. Darwin’s Botanic Garden, Near Lichfield’ dating from 1778” (24). On the other hand, Siobhan Carroll, specialist of British literature of the Romantic century, suggests that Darwin and Seward worked together on the poems related to <em>The Loves of the Plants</em>. <br /><br />By late 1790s, Darwin’s poem began to receive negative philosophical criticism. Due to conservative philosophers of anti-Jacobin perspective, <em>The Botanic Garden</em> started to lose its high reputation, and <em>Anti-Jacobin</em>, an English newspaper founded in 1797, criticized Darwin’s poem (by using Darwin’s own words) as “an exercise in literary and political foolishness” (Carroll). <br /><br />Today, literary scholars refer to Erasmus Darwin through one or more of the other eighteenth century Romantic poets like Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats in order to present Darwin’s role as the “before” affect to the Romantic period (Priestman).<br /><br /><strong>About the Editions</strong><br /><p>The text in the Marymount University’s Gomatos collection is the first American edition, which was published in 1798, and includes a handwritten note on the flyleaf noting a sale price: "5 vols $25." The American and London editions varied by price and by printing method. The American edition, like the Dublin edition, is printed in octavo, while the London edition is printed in quarto.</p>
<p>Both editions are divided into two volumes, and they are further divided into four cantos, suggesting the Linnean principles of classification. Also, both editions contain detailed footnotes and illustrations. The first London edition of <em>The Botanic Garden</em> was illustrated by William Blake and Henry Fuseli, and the American edition was reprinted with the illustrations by Fuseli. Later editions comprise all content and illustrations in to one volume.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author<br /><br /></strong>Erasmus Darwin was born in Nottinghamshire, England in 1731, and he was the grandfather of Charles Darwin, whom wrote <em>the </em><em>Origin of Species</em> in 1859. Darwin was a physician, poet, and botanist. His strong interest in botany, later, inspired him to write <em>The Botanic Garden</em>. He had also written <em>Zoonomia</em> (1796) and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rLVLAAAAcAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA2&dq=Erasmus+Darwin&ots=ErH1pDHRbS&sig=940BQKMJFP0TKrynb2jzK5tcfrk#v=onepage&q=Erasmus%20Darwin&f=false" target="_blank">A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools</a> (1797). Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which greatly influenced the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth-century, which came to also influence the fashion, ideas, and beliefs of English and American society. In 1802, Darwin died due to a lung infection, and his last work, <em>The Temple Nature</em>,was published in 1803.<br /><br /><strong>Further Reading<br /><br /></strong><span>Browne, Janet. “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/234174.pdf" target="_blank">Botany for Gentleman: Erasmus Darwin and ‘The Love of Plants</a>’” <em>Isis</em>, vol. 80, no. 4, 1989, pp. 592-621. JSTOR, JSTOR.<br /><br /><span>Carroll, Siobhan. “<a href="http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=siobhan-carroll-on-erasmus-darwins-the-botanic-garden-1791-1792" target="_blank">On Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden, 1791-1792</a>.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. Accessed 31 Oct. 2018.</span><br /></span><br />Emery, Clark. “<a href="http://proxymu.wrlc.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/222959963?accountid=27975." target="_blank">Scientific Theory in Erasmus Darwin's ‘The Botanic Garden’ (1789-91)</a>.” Isis, vol. 33, no. 3, 1941, pp. 315–325. <em>JSTOR</em>, JSTOR.<br /><a href="Emery,%20Clark.%20%E2%80%9CScientific%20Theory%20in%20Erasmus%20Darwin's%20%E2%80%98The%20Botanic%20Garden%E2%80%99%20(1789-91).%E2%80%9D%20Isis,%20vol.%2033,%20no.%203,%201941,%20pp.%20315%E2%80%93325.%20JSTOR,%20JSTOR,%20www.jstor.org/stable/330787" target="_blank"><br /></a>"<a href="https://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Erasmus-Darwin/29406" target="_blank">Erasmus Darwin</a>." Britannica Academic, <em>Encyclopædia Britannica</em>, 20 Oct. 2008. Accessed 1 Nov. 2018.<br /><br /><span>“<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/erasmus-darwin" target="_blank">Erasmus Darwin</a>” Poetry Foundation. 30 Oct. 2018.</span><br /><br /><span>Garfinkle, Norton. “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2707638.pdf" target="_blank">Science and Religion in England, 1790-1800: The Critical Response to the Work of Erasmus Darwin</a>.” The Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 16, no. 3, 1955, pp. 376-388. <em>JSTOR</em>, JSTOR.<br /><br /></span><span><span>George, Sam. “<a href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=60fa94b1-b1bc-46ed-bf0f-21e004ef35d7%40sessionmgr4008" target="_blank">Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education</a>.” Science & Education, vol. 23, no. 3, Mar. 2014, <span><span>pp. 673–694, <em><span>EBSCOhost</span></em></span></span>.</span><br /><br />Page, M. (2005). “<a href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/198414070/fulltextPDF/C22B0E96E8A04AE4PQ/1?accountid=27975" target="_blank">The Darwin before Darwin: Erasmus Darwin, Visionary Science, and Romantic poetry.</a>” Papers on Language and Literature, 41(2), 146-169.<br /><br /><span><span>Priestman, Martin. </span><span>The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times</span><span>. Burlington, Ashgate, 2013. Print. </span></span><br /><br /><span>"<a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T001&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=2&docId=GALE%7CCX2356300089&docType=Critical+essay%2C+Work+overview&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GLS&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2356300089&searchId=R2&userGroupName=vic_marymount&inPS=true" target="_blank">The Botanic Garden: The Economy of Vegetation</a>." British Writers, Supplement 16, edited by Jay Parini, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2010, pp. 129-131. Gale Virtual Reference Library, </span><span><span>Accessed 30 Oct. 2018.</span></span><br /></span></p>
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Children's Literature
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The children's literature in the Gomatos Collection dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, and includes several editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, featured here.
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<em>Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There</em>
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<em>Through the Looking Glass</em> is the sequel to Lewis Carroll's popular <em>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</em>. The book follows Alice as she explores the Looking-Glass World. This copy is a People's edition, published by Macmillan and Co. The publication date of this edition is 1886-7, but this particular copy is probably from a later printing (the publication date on the title page is 1889). This edition includes several notable features, including Carroll's "An Easter Greeting" to every child who loves Alice (written in 1876) and a "specimen page" of the facsimile edition of Alice's Adventures under Ground. The back pages contain advertisements from Macmillan for Carroll's other works.The cover of the book is without a dust cover, but is bound in green cloth. The front cover features John Tenniel's illustration of Alice and Humpty Dumpty with red highlights. We chose these images because they include examples of the text and illustrations, as well as extra content from the author and publisher. This extra content includes a specimen of an <em>Alice</em> facsimile and a note from Carroll to his readers. This extra content is unique to this edition.
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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
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London; New York : Macmillan and Co.
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1889
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Bourne, Amanda
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Valdez, Walker
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208 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Travels & Voyages
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The Gomatos Collection is particularly rich in travelogues, memoirs of travel, and accounts of voyages of varying degrees of fictionality. Among the Gomatos holdings in this category are Le grand voyage du pays des Hurons (1632), Voyage to Arabia the Happy (1726), German Spy: In Familiar Letters (1738), Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy (1741), Travels in the Interior of Brazil (1822), and more.
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A voyage to Arabia the Happy
by the way of the eastern ocean, and the streights of the Red-Sea : perform'd by the French for the first time, A.D. 1708, 1709, 1710 : together with a particular relation of a journey from the port of Moka to the court of the king of Yemen, in the second expedition, A.D. 1711, 1712, 1713 : also, an account of the coffee-tree, and its fruit : likewise an historical treatise of the first use of coffee, and the progress it afterwards made both in Asia and Europe, how it was introduced into France, and whence it came to be so generally received at Paris.
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Originally published in French under the title <em>Voyage de l’Arabie Heureuse</em>, La Roque’s travel narrative of his exploits in Arabia combines with a history of the coffee trade in this English translation of <em>A Voyage to Arabia: the Happy</em>. La Roque, a French traveler and journalist, kept a descriptive, detailed account of his travels to the East through a series of letters, and an account of the coffee plantations/ trade in Yemen. The first section of the text contains a series of letters documenting the voyage into Arabia, and the experiences of his travels there. La Roque describes the harbor, city, and people he encounters upon his arrival, documenting his visits to Moka and St. Malo. He also includes a letter regarding Sultan Mehemed Ben Beiny, and a treaty made between the Governor of Moka and the captains of the French vessels. The other parts of this text consist of an account of the coffee tree, its fruit, and a Historical Treatise of the first use of coffee. The last feature is an excellent index, which lists important components of the text alphabetically.
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<div>Marymount University’s Gomatos Collection contains a copy of this text as translated into English, published in London in 1726 for G. Strahan. It is a single volume, intact with copies of the detailed maps, drawings of the coffee tree, bean, and leaves that La Roque included in the original text.</div>
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<a href="http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=La%20Roque%2C%20Jean%20de%2C&PID=Uptyh3PhbF4-VF5mJBxxoqpfetDL&BROWSE=1&HC=13&SID=2">La Roque, Jean de, 1661-1745.</a>
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London: Published for G. Strahan
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1726
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Sustko, Alyce
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Book; 1v
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English
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Arabian Peninsula --Description and travel
Coffee
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19th Century British Novels
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The Gomatos Collection contains Romantic and Victorian-era British novels (at least one in a serialized format), as well as materials related to such novels, like the 20th century lithographs illustrating Jane Eyre.
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Bleak House
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<em>Bleak House</em> is one of Dickens’ most famous novels. <em>Bleak House</em> centers around a legal dispute known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Readers are introduced to a panoply of characters, each of whom is shown to have some connection to the case in one way or another. This novel is told by two narrators: a third person narrator and a first person narrator known as Esther Summerson. It was first published serially in <em>Household Words</em> between March 1852 and September 1853. <br /><br />The front and back hard-covers of these two particular volumes (22 and 23) are plain dark red, with faded gold lettering. Together, the volumes contain 57 detailed illustrations by Fred Barnard which add to the piece and its characters. The illustrations evoke a darker image of the novel’s plot as compared to the illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”) in the serialized edition of <em>Bleak House</em>. For example, the illustration that represents the Jellyby’s household in the 1900 edition has a different atmosphere than the serialized edition. Mrs. Jellyby is seen attentively writing her letters with all the scattered papers around her, the children and the tilted frame attached to the wall on the right hand of the illustration display the devastated life condition of the Jellyby family. This contrasts with Phiz’s depiction of the house, which focuses on the origins of the relationship between Caddy Jellyby and Esther Summerson. Readers can grasp the significant facts from Fred Barnard’s Illustrations of <em>Bleak House</em>, because it gives a wide perception into the employed conflicts in each chapter of the novel. <br /><br />These two volumes are part of a 30 volume set that was published by Peter Fenelon Collier & Son in New York City, 1900. The Marymount Gomatos Collection has the entire set. <br /><br />The other volumes in this set include: <br />v. 1. <em>Oliver Twist</em>. <em>Out of Town</em>. <em>Out of Season</em> <br />v. 2-3. <em>David Copperfield</em> <br />v. 4. <em>Our Mutual Friend</em>, pt. I <br />v. 5. <em>Our Mutual Friend</em>, pt. II. <em>On Duty with Inspector Field</em>. <em>A Walk in a Work-House</em> <br />v. 6. <em>Great Expectations</em> <br />v. 7. <em>Little Dorrit</em>, pt. I <br />v. 8. <em>Little Dorrit</em>, pt. II. <em>Down with the Tide</em>. <em>A Plated article</em> <br />v. 9. <em>Martin Chuzzlewit</em>, pt. I <br />v. 10. <em>Martin Chuzzlewit</em>, pt. II. <em>Prince Bull: a Fairy Tale</em>. <em>Our Honorable Friend</em> <br />v. 11. <em>Nicholas Nickleby</em>, pt. I <br />v. 12.<em> Nicholas Nickleby</em>, pt. II. <em>A Christmas Tree</em>. <em>The Long Voyage</em> <br />v. 13 <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em>. <em>The Perils of Certain English Prisoners</em>. <em>The Wreck of the Golden Mary</em>. <em>The Begging-Letter Writer</em> <br />v. 14-15. <em>Dombey and Son</em> <br />v. 16. <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em>, pt. I <br />v. 17. <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em>, pt. II. <em>Hard Times</em>. <em>Sketches of Young Couples</em> <br />v. 18. <em>Christmas Books</em>. <em>The Haunted House</em> <br />v. 19. <em>Sketches by Boz</em> <br />v. 20-21. <em>Pickwick Papers</em> <br />v. 22-23. <em>Bleak House</em> <br />v. 24. <em>Pictures from Italy</em>. <em>The Uncommercial Traveler</em> <br />v. 25. <em>Barnaby Rudge</em>, pt. I <br />v. 26. <em>Barnaby Rudge</em>, pt. II. <em>Master Humphery’s Clock and Other Stories</em> <br />v. 27.<em> American Notes</em>. <em>Reprinted Pieces</em>. <br />v. 28. <em>A Child’s History of England</em> <br />v. 29. <em>Christmas Stories</em> <br />v. 30. <em>No Thoroughfare</em>. <em><em>The Mystery of Edwin Drood<br /><br /></em></em>Further reading:<em><em><br /><br />Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens. Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-Six Pictures Printed from the Original Wood Blocks.</em></em> London: The Musson Book Co. Limited, n.d. <em>The Internet Archive</em>. Web. 12 Dec. 2016.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
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New York: P.F. Collier
Date
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1900
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Document
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Alajmi, Arib
Ficke, Sarah
Giblin, Kaitlyn
Heflin, Sara
Henkle, Richard
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30 v. : ill., port. ; 21 cm.
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19th Century British Novels
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The Gomatos Collection contains Romantic and Victorian-era British novels (at least one in a serialized format), as well as materials related to such novels, like the 20th century lithographs illustrating Jane Eyre.
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Cranford
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Cranford is a collection of satirical stories about life in the countryside in Victorian-era England. It was initially published in 1853 as a full novel, though before this it was published serially in Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The novel draws heavily from Elizabeth Gaskell’s own life, and as such the eponymous town of Cranford is based on her hometown of Knutsford, Cheshire. Because of the way it was initially published, the novel has been criticized for having no typical plot structure.
This specific edition is the first edition printed as such. It contains a myriad of illustrations, 110 to be exact, by Hugh Thomson. The illustrations are used primarily as front- and endpieces for chapters, though several of them also illustrate direct quotes from the text. The cover and spine both have extensive gold-ink illustrations, and the edges of the pages are also gilded. The front cover and title page, interestingly, do not give Elizabeth Gaskell’s first name, opting instead to refer to her as “Mrs. Gaskell”.
The preface for this edition was written by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who was a contemporary and another well-known Victorian female author. She’s also known as the daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair, and the step-aunt of Virginia Woolf.
Further Reading
Brake, L. (2012). Elizabeth gaskell's cranford: A publishing history. Victorian Studies, 54(4), 767-769,778. Retrieved from http://proxymu.wrlc.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1265597634?accountid=27975
Recchio, T. (2003). "Charming and sane": School editions of cranford in america, 1905-1914. Victorian Studies, 45(4), 597-623. Retrieved from http://proxymu.wrlc.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/211911273?accountid=27975
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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Macmillan and Co. and New York
Date
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1891
Format
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Book, 1v. 19cm, 297 pp.
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English
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<a href="http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5777982">http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5777982</a>
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Title
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Dialogues of the Dead
Description
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4th ed., corr., to which are added four new dialogues. Dialogues XXVI-XXVIII are "by another hand" i.e., Elizabeth Montagu.
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<a href="http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SEQ=20100523215122&PID=dLD5faK-m9RoVMOsje2K71yc_WY&SA=Lyttelton,+George+Lyttelton,"> Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773. </a>
<a href="http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SEQ=20100523215122&PID=dLD5faK-m9RoVMOsje2K71yc_WY&SA=Montagu,+Elizabeth+Robinson,+1720-1800."> Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. </a>
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London: Printed for W. Sandby
Date
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1765
Format
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Book, xv, 406 p. ; 21 cm.
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<a href="http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5769006">http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5769006</a>
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Imaginary conversations
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Race, Slavery, and Abolition
Description
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The Gomatos Collection contains several works on race, slavery and abolition in Britain, the Caribbean, and America. The collection's holdings include Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, The White Slave by Richard Hildreth, Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies by Mrs. Carmichael, and more.
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Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies
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Carmichael, Mrs. (A. C.)
Publisher
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London : Whittaker
Date
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1834
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Ficke, Sarah
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Book; 2 v. ; 21 cm.
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<a href="http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5736591">http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5736591</a>
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Poetry
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The Gomatos Collection has a varied selection of poetry, ranging from single-author works to anthologies compiled for the purposes of education or entertainment.
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Title
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Fables
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London : printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts
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194 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
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Old English
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OCLC : (OCoLC)642407561
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Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Illustrator: William Kent (1685- 1748) and John Wootton (1682- 1764)
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Date
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1728
Description
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As described by the <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em>, a fable is “a short story devised to convey some useful lesson" and especially "one in which animals or inanimate things are the speakers or actors.” The dictionary then dates the word's first appearance in 1340 in Kentish, an English dialect. William R. Wray states in his book <em>The English Fable</em> that “animal fables originally began in the middle of the eighteenth century” and were a new storytelling format brought to the country after the English Civil Wars catalyzed a separation from Georgian culture (<em>The English Fable</em>, Lewis). As a result, animal fables then spread to all aspects of English culture. The fable became such a popular genre that it initiated a change in Brittan’s academic literary circles. It became the standard for textbooks and spread widely to scholars all throughout England. At the time, there was already a significant evolution of literature happening in England and the country became the leading developer of the prosaic voice through the emerging form of the novel. In fact, the Augustan age, which took place from around 1700 to 1750, was praised as the “Golden Age of Latin literature” by the <em>Encyclopedia Britannica</em>. The time period Gay lived in was likely as prolific as it was because of the influx of writing genres, such as the Fable, coupled with the widespread availability of the printing press. This combination afforded writers the ability to contribute to the literary culture in a new way. As an important contribution to such a time, Gay’s <em>Fables</em> will forever be held as a noteworthy piece of contemporary eighteenth-century Augustan children's literature. <br /><br /><em>Fables</em> by John Gay was first published in 1727; Marymount University’s Gomatos collection has the 1728 second edition of volume one. Marymount’s ninety-four-page hardcover copy of <em>Fables</em> contains one introductory poem followed by fifty short fables, each with an illustration at the header. The <em>Fables</em> are written in octosyllabic meter with rhyming couplets throughout, enforcing the poems' appeal to adolescent sensibilities. The illustrations in this text were hand carved into copper printing plates designed by William Kent, a distinguished architect, and John Wootton, a famous equestrian and landscape painter and then later engraved into the book by Fourdrinier, Baron, or Van der Gucht. Kent’s etchings can also be seen in Alexander Pope’s <em>The Dunciad</em>, while Wootton’s art is more commonly known to illustrate Shakespeare’s plays. Kent and Wootton were widely popular British artist of the time and members of an elite social circle belonging to The Royal Academy of Arts. The Royal Academy was at the center of English enlightenment for eighteenth-century artists, poets and intellectuals alike. It was a network that connected the acclaimed contemporary writers of the day such as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay, who was strongly influenced by the community of satirical writers who went by the alias Scriblerus. Gay was so influenced by his social circles that within the first few pages of <em>Fables</em> lies a dedication to William Augustus, The Duke of Cumberland. <br /><br />Gay’s work was also largely inspired by classical works such as the famous fables of Aesop. Gay’s fables are considered to be Aesopian, which according to The Oxford English Dictionary, is “a style or language that has hidden or ambiguous meaning, esp. as a device to disguise dissident political writing in allegorical form… so [as to] avoid official censorship.” Gay’s fables seems to do exactly this through his humorously representative titles that anthropomorphise the animals and inanimate objects of Gay’s imagination. Because these fables were meant for children, each tale contains a moral to learn from at the end. This is where Gay uses the form of an Aesopian fable to inserts his own criticism of modern English values with morals like ‘flattery can only get you so far’, and a warning to ‘take even the works of esteemed scholars with a grain of salt’. For example In Fable V, "The Wild Boar and the Ram," the ram in the end essentially proclaims ‘what goes around comes around’ to the taunting boar in the verse “Know, those who violence pursues, / Give to themselves the vengeance due” (Fables 19). The entire book is filled with such cautionary tales suiting paired with rich illustrations of the English countryside and a rhyme scheme that one can’t help but follow. <br /><br />Gay was a dramatist most known for <em>The Beggar's Opera</em> and his poem, <em>Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London</em>. These works, along with <em>Fables, </em>fall under the genre of satire, a key element of the Augustan age that characterized literature of the period. According to the Poetry Foundation, <em>Fables</em> was “written to win the favor of specific members of the court." As Gay’s dedication to the six-year-old Duke exposes in an introduction that claims Fables was “invented for his amusement." It is obvious that Gay relied on various nobles, including The Earl of Bath and others for support. Considering that patronage was Gay’s means to continue his literary pursuits, it is not surprising that he would rub elbows with the noble. However, despite his need to accommodate the aristocracy, Gay’s work continually subverts the monarchy’s authority by mocking their traditional customs and practices. In <em>Fables</em>, Gay uses imaginary animals to express controversial opinions and persuade readers to disagree with popular opinion. His work provides social commentary on the politics of the time, particularly the role of the crown. Gay was considered to be a controversial writer namely because his play <em>Polly</em>, the sequel to <em>The Beggar's Opera</em>, was banned by the king, which naturally only ignited public interest. To fuel the production of more rebellious writings, Scriblerus, the above-mentioned band of satirists, encouraged each other to undermine social constructs by focusing their work on disrupting conforms. <br /><br /><strong>Further Reading</strong><br /><br />Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. <em>The English Fable : Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740.</em> Cambridge University Press, 1996. <br /><br />Gay, John, and Faber, G. C.. <em>The Poetical Works of John Gay, Including “Polly”, “The Beggar”s Opera’ and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work</em>. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1926. <br /><br />Nokes, David. J<em>ohn Gay, A Profession of Friendship</em>. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Contributor
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Alnajem, Nouf
McGale, Maeve
Ramos, Elizabeth
Type
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Document, book
1685-1732
Aesops Fables
Augustan Literature
Childrens Literature
English poetry --Middle English
Fables
Gamatos Collection
John Gay
Poetry
Satire
William Augustus