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Within the Red Fairy Book, it encompasses a brilliant illustration by H.J. Ford. Published in 1890, the Red Fairy Book is just one of twelve ‘colored’ fairy books in Andrew Lang’s Collection. Lang did not capture the fairytale stories himself.…

Hamilton the Musical "A.HAM" Flat Brim Hat available on https://broadwaymerchandiseshop.com/stores/hamilton/apparel for fans of Hamilton the Musical.

Fortune-telling became increasingly popular in the 19th century. These two paintings show how cartomancy, that is, fortune-telling by deck of playing cards, was both a business opportunity or form of peddling as well as an increasingly fashionable…

Emma Lavinia Gifford Hardy, Thomas Hardy's first wife, painted this watercolor sketch of the St. Juliot Churchyard in Cornwall. Created in 1870, this work was completed before their marriage in 1874. However, Thomas signed the image for Emma,…

This is the original printing of "Alicia's Diary". It started in the October 15th, 1887 publication of the Manchester Times and concluded in the next week's publication. There are no images printed anywhere throughout the story in the newspaper, so…

This note appears in within the first few pages of Thomas Hardy's collection, A Changed Man and Other Tales. He says he has compiled a dozen of his "minor novels" into this collection, so that readers may be able to access his stories easier. Being…

This is an image of what the cover of "Alicia's Diary," by Thomas Hardy looks like. This image of the cover has a somewhat older looking feel to it with the border surrounding the words on the page and the older and more worn out looking color of the…

This is the Table of Contents in Thomas Hardy's collection, A Changed Man and Other Tales. It is interesting to look at the table of contents and see how he decided to place all of the short stories within the collection because it is likely that…

This is a description of the back cover of Thomas Hardy's collection of "A Changed Man and Other Tales." In the first paragraph of the description, it speaks about the history of Thomas Hardy's short stories and everything that the collection…

This is an image of the title page of the title page in the first edition of Hardy's "Life's Little Ironies," which is the collection of short stories that "On the Western Circuit" was originally published in. I thought this image was interesting…