Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
George Calderon, 1912
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
George Calderon c.1901
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Captain of the 11
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
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Category Archives: Edwardian marriage
Guest post by John Pym: Games Ancient and Modern
An eight-minute video, La Roue, No. 29, in the series ‘Children’s Games’ by the artist Francis Alÿs: A barefoot boy in a green and yellow football shirt and red shorts – the colours of the Congo national football team – … Continue reading
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Guest post by Alison Miles: Edwardian grandmothers?
Both my grandmothers were children during the reign of Edward VII. My paternal grandmother Dorothy Mabel Angus (Granny Thomas) was born on 2 December 1897 and my maternal grandmother Eleanor Frances Ashton (Granny Goodfield) on 7 April 1898. Granny Thomas … Continue reading
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How would I write it now?
Many authors never re-read their own books. One can understand why. Some must feel that it’s not necessary as it can’t change anything (unless the book is about to have an ‘improved’ edition). Others, like George Orwell apparently, simply don’t … Continue reading
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The Edwardian Re-turn
I hope you will forgive my pun on the title of one of the seminal works about the Edwaaaardian (as they pronounced it) era, Samuel Hynes’s The Edwardian Turn of Mind. A hundred and seven years ago today, at just after … Continue reading
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Guest post by Damian Grant: ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’
This nineteenth-century engraving of Florizel and Perdita does indeed make them look — to use Lady Chatterley/Connie’s dismissive phrase about the Elizabethans — somewhat ‘upholstered’. In all the excitement — which has never quite subsided — about the sexual explicitness … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Snake', Algernon Swinburne, Byzantium, Charles Baudelaire, comments, Constance Reid, D.H. Lawrence, Florizel, Forest of Arden, George Eliot, High Park Wood, John James Audubon, John Keats, John Milton, Juno, Lady Chatterley, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Mary Russell Mitford, Michaelis, Mrs Bolton, Mrs Gaskell, Oliver Mellors, Perdita, Proserpina, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sex, sexuality, Sir Clifford Chatterley, T.S. Eliot, The Elizabethans, The Great War, The Winter's Tale, W.B. Yeats, wild flowers, William Shakespeare, World War I, Wragby
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Guest post by Laurence Brockliss: The Historian, Middle-Class Marriage, and ‘Women in Love’
I have always been puzzled by Tolstoy’s apodictic statement about happy and unhappy marriages at the beginning of Anna Karenina. How on earth did he know? Even today when the state and the media have penetrated deeply into our private … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Gladstone, Ancestry.com, Anna Karenina, Arnold Bennett, Bensons, Brighton, Clayhanger, Colin Firth, D.H. Lawrence, Edward Charles Wickham, Edward Talbot, Edward White Benson, F.R. Leavis, Frieda von Richthofen, George Eliot, Henryck Wieniawski, Isabella Wieniawska, Jane Austen, Janet Catherine North, Jennifer Ehle, John Addington Symonds, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Laurence Brockliss, Leo Tolstoy, Lev Tolstoi, Lucy Trotman, marriage, Middlemarch, novels, Oxford, Pride and Prejudice, prosopographical studies, Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, Samuel Fiennes, Simon Goldhill, social history, The English Novel, These Twain, Winchester, Women in Love
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Guest post by Damian Grant: ‘Women in Love’ — the novel as prophetic book
Lawrence always reminded the novel of its promise to offer something new. In his essays, where he insists that the novel ‘has got to present us with new, really new feelings, a whole line of new emotion, which will get … Continue reading
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Tagged antagonism, Cain, comments, counterpoint, D.H. Lawrence, Damian Grant, E.M. Forster, Edward Garnett, English novel, George Eliot, Gerald Crich, Gudrun Brangwen, imagery, Jan Juta, Jane Austen, Loerke, Macbeth, marriage, Mary Shelley, National Portrait Gallery, Phoenix, Pity, Rupert Birkin, sex, Sherwood Forest, Tate Gallery, The Ghost of a Flea, The Great War, the novel, The Rainbow, The Sisters, Ursula Brangwen, William Blake, William Rothenstein, William Shakespeare, Women in Love, World War I
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Guest post by John Pym: ‘Women in Love’ and Glenda Jackson’s Oscar
In London in the 1970s and 80s I used to review movies for the British Film Institute’s Monthly Film Bulletin. That serious, no-frills journal, founded in 1934, aimed to cover every feature film released in UK cinemas. Some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bates, Ballets Russes, Billy Williams, British Film Institute, D.H. Lawrence, Eleanor Bron, Emmanuelle II, film adaptations, films, Gerald Crich, Glenda Jackson, Hermione Roddice, Jennie Linden, John Pym, Ken Russell, Larry Kramer, Loerke, Oliver Reed, Oscars, Penelope 'Pulls It Off', Peter Brook, pornography, Richard Heffer, Rupert Birkin, soft porn, The Rite of Spring, There's No Sex Like Snow Sex, Ursula Brangwen, Vladek Sheybal, Women in Love
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‘Hurtler’ Brangwen, woman in love
Let me explain what lies behind the next three instalments of Calderonia, which are distinguished guest posts taking us up to 8 March and beyond. As part of our lockdown season of old films, Alison and I watched a DVD … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bates, Bildungsroman, biography, comments, D.H. Lawrence, Damian Grant, F.R. Leavis, George Calderon, Glenda Jackson, Gudrun Brangwen, Jennie Linden, John Pym, Ken Russell, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Laurence Brockliss, love, marriage, Penguin Books, Rupert Birkin, The Great War, The Rainbow, Ursula Brangwen, Women in Love, World War I
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Was there an ‘Edwardian Age’, and was it ‘great’?
When I began to read George and Kittie Calderon’s archive for my biography of them both, I little thought I would be drawn deeper and deeper into the question of ‘Edwardianism’. Yet I instantly felt as I read George’s letters … Continue reading →