1925
Australia invites the British domestic girl : published on behalf of the government of the Commonwealth of Australia under the authority of the Minister for Markets and Migration.
"When we are Pope, we intend to make great changes in the Creeds and Articles. Stealing books, i.e. borrowing them, shall be put among the mortal sins, and private revenge upon stealers of books shall be venial, under a very slight tariff.
Then, when we are Emperor, we intend, every year, to require each man in the empire who can read and write, to make solemn search of his household, and to file an affidavit that there is not remaining with him a borrowed book!"
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), “Book-Keeping,” in Eyes and Ears (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), pp. 396-399 (at 398-399)
An old textbook.
A Short System Of Polite Learning, Being an Epitome of the Arts and Sciences, For the Use of Schools. 1818. From this page:
Q. How many planets revolve around the sun?
A. Seven, namely; Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel.
I remember when Herschel was still being called the Georgian Star after King George III, but nooo, that wasn’t memorable or actuate enough for the King. Uranus was MUCH better.
~ The Guide to Reading (The Pocket University, Vol. XXIII), 1925
via Internet ArchiveI’ve been living right.
Prostitution and the Victorians
Trevor Fisher
Victorian Britain has long been viewed as a tightly buttoned society in sexual matters. In fact, female prostitution, or the Great Social Evil as contemporaries called it, was endemic and the persistence of the phenomenon infuriated anti-vice campaigners, while perplexing social reformers. The issue being debated was whether society should tolerate prostitution as an inevitable phenomenon which should be regulated in the public interest — the public health position — or suppressed as an intolerable evil — the moral purity position. The evidence presented here clearly indicates that prostitution was a serious issue for serious Victorians. The popular images of a polite and respectable people, or a hypocritical and repressive society which did not practice what it preached, cannot be substantiated. Moreover, it is surprising how many of the debates covered in this book are still with us today.
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The Conjure-Man Dies, by Rudolph Fisher, book cover, 1932
Source: Divinatory Poetics
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