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And Then She Kissed Him

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This Week In History: June 15-21

15 Monday Jun 2015

Posted by Cora Lee in Regency, This Week In History

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French Revolution, Kamehameha III, Lord Byron, Magna Carta, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, slavery, This Week In History, Waterloo

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June 15, 1215: King John puts his seal to the Magna Carta.


June 16, 1816: Lord Byron challenges Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori to write a ghost story at his villa in Italy.


June 17, 1839: In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands.


June 18, 1815: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonapart by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher forcing him to abdicate the throng of France for the second time.


June 19, 1862: The US Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sanford.


June 20, 1837: Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.


June 21, 1791: King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.


 

Friday Favorites: Richard Armitage Reads Classic Love Poems

20 Friday Mar 2015

Posted by Cora Lee in Books, Friday Favorites

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Andrew Marvell, Christopher Marlowe, E. E. Cummings, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Keats, Lord Byron, Lord Tennyson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Armitage, Robert Browning, William Shakespeare

Classic Love Poems

Our Favorite this week is 22 minutes of bliss. Richard Armitage has brought his beautiful voice to the audiobook world once again in Classic Love Poems, including work by Regency favorites Keats, Byron, and Shelley. You can find this collection on Audible in the US and UK.

Here’s the full list of poems:

  • “How do I love thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare
  • “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • “To Be One with Each Other” by George Eliot
  • “Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
  • “Bright Star” by John Keats
  • “Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • “Meeting at Night” by Robert Browning
  • “The Dream” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
  • “I carry your heart” by e. e. cummings
  • “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
  • “Give All to Love” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Week In History: February 23-March 1

23 Monday Feb 2015

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Drury Lane, French Revolution, Lord Byron, Lower Canada, Napoleon, Samuel Colt, This Week In History, US census

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February 23, 1848: The French Revolution of 1848 begins.


February 24, 1809: London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.


February 25, 1836: Samuel Colt is granted a US patent for the Colt revolver.


February 26, 1815: Napoleon Bonapart escapes from Elba.


February 27, 1812: Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords.


February 28, 1838: Robert Nelson proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (Quebec).


March 1, 1790: The first US census is authorized.


 

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