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In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bed in Summer”
published in A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

#Scottish #literature #poem 3poetry #summer #kidlit #19thcentury #Victorian #Edinburgh #RobertLouisStevenson

Bed in Summer
by Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Although the postcard this photo appears on is postmarked #OnThisDay 21 June 1955, 70 years ago today, the image itself dates back to at least 1890.

A reverse image search led me to the special collections database of University of St Andrews where this photograph of Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed, was a part of Scottish photographer James Valentine's collection.

Flipping the postcard over and, sure enough, it's a "Silveresque" postcard published by Valentine & Sons Ltd of Dundee and London.

Other search results also show this photo has been reproduced many, many times.

The contents of the postcard message itself is addressed to Mary from what looks like Doris & Rosemary (I don't think I'm aware of who they were). They're visiting Betwys-y-Coed, enjoying the beautiful scenery, but found Colwyn Bay "too quiet for us".

https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/swallow-falls-betws-y-coed/36881

#JackAndMaryArchive #postcard #JamesValentine #victorian #BetwsYCoed #Conwy

A black and white postcard photo was white waterfalls over a rocky ledge, surrounded by trees. A caption in the bottom left corner reads "Swallow Falls, Bettws-y-Coed."

Today’s shock: ladies are spending hundreds of euros for some #AmericanDuchess ‘#Victorian’ #shoes. While superficially they might look all authentic, they are glued together in China from cheap components and plastic. Basically the construction is nothing like what a real Victorian #shoe would be.

As someone who really appreciates old charms and hand crafting, this actually angers me. The whole company seems like a scam with massive margins.

New signing art for a customer of the Chapter Two of Esther and Erie… Yes I let myself go, but I was on the train to see Samantha Fish and without network, so... I might as well make the most of it!
You can buy your own, in French or English, in digital or paper editions

#indycomics #bdinde #linkinbio #sketch #traditionalart #art #artwork #signin #owncharacter #bd #preview #teasing #horror #victorian #gothic #gothicaesthetic #fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots #DrawEverythingJune2025

An traditionally inked scene featuring Esther and Érié in a vintage Victorian setting. Érié is standing on a chair, lifting a hat above her mistress’ head, while Esther sits, dressed elegantly and adjusting her gloves. The background includes a mirror, curtains, and a flower pot

Excerpt from a signin art: Esther is putting a glove while Erie is putting a hat on her mistress head

Excerpt from a signin art: Esther is putting a glove while Erie is putting a hat on her mistress head (more zoomed)

Yesterday we also visited the #Connecticut State #Capitol. It was designed in the 1870s by Richard #Upjohn, a church #architect. If you love #Victorian #architecture, it is worth seeing.

Exterior of the Connecticut State Capitol, showing its tall, golden dome.

Inside the House of Representatives chambers, including stained glass windows, artfully painted walls, and rich woods.

Statue of Nathan Hale, Connecticut's state Hero, within the capitol.

An old-fashioned wooden telephone booth outside Senate chambers. Note the thick walls and double doors to thwart eavesdropping!

27 Real #Slang Words From The #Victorian Era – Guess What They Actually Mean

https://www.boredpanda.com/victorian-era-slang-quiz/
#quiz #test

Celebrating Jerome K.Jerome today (2 May 1859 - 14 June 1927) with excerpts from his hilarious & much-loved Three Men in a Boat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuIFcC508LA

Passages on Packing and The Pineapple Tin.... read by the excellent Gregory Dwyer (@Voice_from_The_Booth) https://voicefromthebooth.com/

Enjoy!

#jeromekjerome #threemeninaboat #humour #classic #favourites #reading #victorian

“[Robert Louis Stevenson’s EDINBURGH: PICTURESQUE NOTES] suggests alternative means of mapping the city through the visceral, physical intensity of Stevenson’s descriptions. We can hear the sound of his city echoing through the centuries”

We also have Kirsti Wishart on Robert Louis Stevenson & the psychogeography of 19th-century Edinburgh

6/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/like-a-great-disordered-heart-robert-louis-stevenson-in-the-city/

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Edinburgh #19thcentury #Victorian #psychogeography #cities

James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) was born #OTD, 13 June. As a physicist, he ranks alongside Newton & Einstein (“He achieved greatness unequalled”—Max Planck; “I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell”—Albert Einstein).

Maxwell also wrote poetry: “Rigid Body Sings” is based on “Comin’ Through the Rye” by Robert Burns

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45774/in-memory-of-edward-wilson-who-repented-of-what-was-in-his-mind-to-write-after-section

#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Scots #Scotslanguage #Physics #science #physicist

In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section
BY JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Rigid Body (sings).

Gin a body meet a body
Flyin’ through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?
Ilka impact has its measure,
Ne’er a ane hae I,
Yet a’ the lads they measure me,
Or, at least, they try.

Gin a body meet a body
Altogether free,
How they travel afterwards
We do not always see.
Ilka problem has its method
By analytics high;
For me, I ken na ane o’ them,
But what the waur am I?

#ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #oldwoman #crone #blunderbuss #eccentric #surreal #fantasy #strangeenvironment #whimsical #unusualcharacters #ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #OldWoman #Crone #Blunderbuss #Victorian #Fantasy #ElderlyHeroine #Surreal #Stultifying #Atmosphere #UnusualCharacters #VintageWeapons

It’s Friday, Let’s Read: Three men on the bummel

If you already read Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome, then a next good option is his Three men on the bummel.

It’s funny and we follow the same friends, but this time on a bicycle tour through Germany.

You can download the ebook at Project Gutenberg.

#books #ebooks #FunnyReads #JeromeKJerome #reading #Victorian

“McGonagall was contributing to a pre-existing poetic culture that hovered between the satirical & the serious, & that caused difficulties for editors faced with deciding which was which”

Bad poetry was good business in Victorian Dundee:

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/11/mcgonagall-poute-and-the-bad-poets-of-victorian-dundee/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Dundee #McGonagall

McGonagall Salon(agall)
24 June, Edinburgh & online – free

The Edinburgh Literary Salon & the International Ghost Society – Edinburgh’s newest & most easily-distracted paranormal investigation society – present an interactive journey through the life & poetic gems of William McGonagall, including a playable big screen RPG, hidden Easter eggs, & a virtual McGonagall experience

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/junes-mcgonagall-salonagall-tickets-1407703903269

#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Dundee #McGonagall

Wow, 2025 is a blur already! We're now up to the Summer schedule for virtual Austen and Brontë events.

https://open.substack.com/pub/excessivelydiverting/p/austen-bronte-issue-32-upcoming-virtual-events-for-summer-2025?r=1ep55&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

Black and white image of Jane Austen holding a hot pink laptop.

♫ put on your sunday clothes, there's lots of world out there! ♫
--
#veritythompson #victorian #historical #sketches

If that’s whetted your appetite, a new critical edition of Robert Duncan Milne’s work, edited by Keith Williams & Ari Brin & with a foreword by Ken MacLeod, was published in January 2025 by Bloomsbury

(Warning for the faint of heart: academic pricing …)

@litstudies

5/5

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/essential-robert-duncan-milne-9781350412620/

#Scottish #literature #scifi #sciencefiction #19thcentury #Victorian

Robert Duncan Milne’s short story “Ten Thousand Years in Ice” – published in ARGONAUT STORIES (San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Co., 1906) – is online via @gutenberg_org

4/5

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/68408/pg68408-images.html#s10

#Scottish #literature #scifi #sciencefiction #19thcentury #Victorian

Originally published in THE ARGONAUT in 1883, Milne’s “A New Palingenesis” is, like FRANKENSTEIN, a secular version of the resurrection myth. Adapted in 2022 in comic-book form, it’s available to download for free from Dundee University

3/5

https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/a-new-palingenesis

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury #Frankenstein #comics

A man with a bushy moustache and a Victorian coat and hat stands, legs akimbo, on top of a jumbled array of pipes. Under one arm, a green folder stuffed with papers spills sheets out into the air. Behind him looms a huge, purple, alien-looking head, made up of twisting strands.

Text:
A NEW PALINGENESIS Adapted from the story by Robert Duncan Milne

Milne • Millar • Murray • Nero • Williams

Robert Duncan Milne’s science fiction pioneered themes such as climate catastrophe, cryogenics, biological engineering, personality transfer, scientific terrorism, drone warfare, & more. This 2021 talk by Dundee University’s Centre for Scottish Culture introduces Milne’s life & work

2/5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09raxP7GxUQ&t=966s

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”

Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born #OTD, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of science fiction

1/5

https://theconversation.com/remembering-the-lost-father-of-american-science-fiction-and-his-scottish-roots-78968

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #Victorian #19thcentury

#Victorian

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