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Amovietrubs.bsky.social

I think a massive part of this is probably the way that English perjorative ideas of Ireland have been so influential in America, especially in 18th/early 19thC. And how Americans have now taken those cliches (simple country folk/drunk) and romanticised them.

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DLdrbibliomane.bsky.social

News about the belated appearance of these six little dots has made my day! #19thc

Goggled conservator belatedly adding the diaereses to the Brontës' names on their monument at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
"It's a big news week for the Brontë heritage industry as on Thursday conservators went into Westminster Abbey to right a terrible wrong on the Brontë memorial in Poets' Corner. Installed in 1939, the stone memorial honours the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne but--a knife to the heart of production tenants everywhere--left off the two dots over the "e" in the family name. Those dots are called diaereses, we learn, and after a successful appeal to the abbey . . . the correct spelling of the name was restored, above the memorial's legend, "courage to endure."
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KEthemedievaldrk.bsky.social

Sometimes there are authors who are known to have written heavily for x publication during y years, sometimes on z topic, and so you can suggest that maybe a given piece is by them, but ime these issues are badly under-researched bc 19thc middle-brow reading hasn't had the attn we might expect

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NMcrossjack.bsky.social

This is my other 19thC electrostatic generator, a Ramsden. I have two but only this one is complete and in its case. 🧪

Photo of a Ramsden generator assembled and with two Leyden jars. The Ramsden is a tribo carging device with a glass disc turned by handle. You can see the charge collectors, U shapes around the glass with spikes.
The generator disassembled and in its box.
Another view showing the leather pads that rub on the disc, and the charge collecting sphere.
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MBmatgb.bsky.social

Ye gods I didn't know that detail. The "you owe us money for the property (slaves) you stole (liberated)" approach of the 19thC was really fucking evil But GBBOs Mexican week was embarassing as fuck, you could tell it was going to be bad from the opening 'joke'

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MBbexone.bsky.social

The 21st century messaging that a solo family “19th-century style” homestead is the pinnacle of human achievement is fucking wild if you’ve read literally ANYTHING about how homesteading (didn’t) work in the actual 19thc

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RMrohanmaitzen.bsky.social

I also talk with my 19thC fiction students about what to do if the quantity of reading overwhelms you. It is never "give up and read a summary," but it may be "skim along so you are able to follow discussions then reread key parts later," or "it's OK to skim the Skimpole bits after a while" 🙃

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