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Washington Irving
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Washington Irving
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Sunday, 29 March 2020
Announcing "Science Fiction of Antebellum America: An Anthology"
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With the world under quarantine thanks to the Spanish Flu Covid-19, it seems a good time to offer a literary respite through the publicati...
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Written in 1820 before Halloween as we know it even existed , the best known and loved of Washington Irving's stories has become a Hall...
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Victorian Invention of Halloween
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The common story goes that Halloween originated in the misty days of pre-Roman Ireland, with the year-ending festival of Samhain. That fina...
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Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Will Rogers' The Headless Horseman
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Long before Johnny Depp or Bing Crosby's voice, the inept schoolmaster of Washington Irving's classic American novel The Legend of ...
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
The Victorian Invention of Christmas
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On the odd occasion when I am asked what the greatest invention of the Victorian Era was, I tend to step sideways on it. Yes, various indus...
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