I love the look of window light, especially for backlit subjects, because it adds a gorgeous glow (a halo, if you will) around the subject. Here I've applied that treatment to a charming and poignant antique Victorian statue of a cherub, in this case a little girl angel holding a rose, in soft-grained black-and-white. Find it here: https://jon-woodhams.pixels.com/featured/angel-by-the-window-jon-woodhams.html
Netta Syrett novelist & playwright died #OTD 1943, her prizewinning play was said to be too realistic about women’s lives & received only one performance. Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives now available in US at pre-publication price @UChicagoPress tinyurl.com/mr7m2t2c promo code UCPNEW for 30% off. #DecadentWomen#Decadence#womenswriting#1890s#Victorian@genderhistory@histodons
George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. Seen by many as the forefather of modern #fantasy fiction, he was a huge influence on later writers including JRR #Tolkien & #CSLewis
“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream”
David Melville Wingrove on LILITH, MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work
RETHINKING GEORGE MACDONALD: 16 essays on MacDonald’s place in the #Victorian literary scene, his engagement with the works of his contemporaries, & his interest in the social, political, & theological movements of his age – also online via Project MUSE
Death on the Pale Horse (1865) by Gustave Doré (French artist, lived 1832–1883). Print from illustrated edition of the Bible. Death rides into the world on a pale horse. He is the fourth knight of the apocalypse. Hell follows him.
TO BE READ AT DUSK, Charles Dickens (1852)
"The face of a dark, remarkable-looking man, in black, w. black hair & a grey moustache…Not a face she ever saw, or at all like a face she ever saw. Doing nothing in the dream but looking at her fixedly out of darkness" #GothicAdvent