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Tuesday, May 21st at 8PM EST M.J. Rose (Seduction) & Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) discuss Historical Fiction
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Seduction by ADMINOFFICER (see profile) May 18, 2013 10:45:41 AM
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Drink Fraise Sauvage Learn More>While the literal translation is "wild strawberry" (soon to be in season), the French word sauvage is the origin of the English word, savage. Fitting for the novel, but somehow also fitting for the Victorian era as well: sweet simplicity that belies a darker, more complex nature within (After all, this is the period when Jekyll & Hyde, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland were published.)
While Victorian England was partial to punches rather than cocktails, I thought we'd bring the Victorian punch into the modern era. -
Eat English Trifle Learn More>An English favorite as well as a favorite dessert of Victorian London. Also, incidentally, a wonderful Mother's Day dish. The trifle has 4 essential ingredients: Fruit, alcohol, cake and cream. (What's not to love?)
Click on learn more to watch the Barefoot Contessa's make her recipe for red berry trifle made with layers of pound cake, Cognac pastry cream and lots of fresh berries. -
Listen Sir Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations Learn More>"The Enigma I will not explain - its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the connection between the Variations and the Theme is often of the slightest texture; further, through and over the whole set another and larger theme 'goes', but is not played.... So the principal Theme never appears, even as in some late dramas ... the chief character is never on the stage."—Edward Elgar
Almost sounds like a murder mystery, doesn't it? Elgar dedicated the piece to "my friends pictured within" each variation being a portrait of one of his friends. He took The Enigma to his grave, happy to have done so.
But for this book, I think his cello concertos have a suspense to them and a darker quality that befits gaslit London, opium-addicted authors, serial killers, and ladies happily wearing over 30 pounds of clothing. Have a listen. -
Do Learn More About Thomas De Quincy Learn More>Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant English authors of the 1800s, was born in Manchester in 1785. As a boy, he read widely and became an expert in Greek and Latin, outperforming his teachers. At seventeen, he ran away from school and spent five harrowing months penniless and hungry on the streets of London. He entered Oxford University in 1803 but left five years later in the midst of his final examinations. He moved to the English Lake District to be near his two literary idols, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, almost stalking them. In 1813, he became dependent on opium, a drug he experimented with during his days at Oxford, and over the next few years he slid deeper into debt and addiction. His most famous work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, was the first detailed account of drug use and abuse in English and initiated the tradition of the modern artist as exile and prophet. Thereafter De Quincey wrote for leading magazines of the day on a variety of topics, including politics, history, and murder. In 1827, he wrote the first of his three brilliant essays “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” the blood-soaked final installment of which depicts the infamous Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811, the first media-sensation mass killings in English history. He is also famous for his “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” and for his scandalous biographical essays about Wordsworth and Coleridge. One of the inventors of the true-crime non-fiction genre, De Quincey also inspired Edgar Allan Poe, who in turn inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. De Quincey died in Edinburgh in 1859.—Robert Morrison, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (as contributed by author David Morrell)
Click on Learn More to read the Essay, "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts"
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