Friday, March 30, 2018

Diary briefs

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Richard Pryor’s diaries to be published - Vulture Miles Franklin’s secret diary - The Sydney Morning Herald , Daily Liberal William Stei...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Kathleen Scott as diarist

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Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, was born 130 years ago today. She lived an extraordinary life, a friend of Auguste Rodin, Isidora Duncan, G...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Lieber’s Life and Letters

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‘Yesterday and the day before, serious riots against the negroes. This evening they assembled to defend themselves. I went to see them. They...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Pictures and vaudeville

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‘Went to Loew’s theatre to-day and it’s allright. They had moving pictures and vaudeville. Gosh the acrobats were swelling fat with muscles ...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

La Pérouse at Easter Island

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In 1785, the French naval captain, Jean-François de Galaup de La Pérouse, was charged by King Louis XVI to undertake a scientific voyage aro...
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Friday, March 9, 2018

Wedekind’s erotic life

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‘[Katya]’s wearing a brand new silk dress from the Louvre that’s too short for her and hence fastened up with a hundred pins. The opening is...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

I distrust the miller

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‘I was at the mill and had 2 measures of wheat ground in my presence to see the result, because I distrust the miller.’ This is from the ric...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Dining at the Pavilion

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Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Creevey, an English lawyer and politician who hobnobbed frequently with the Prince ...