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Frank, Katherine. “The Brontë Biographies: Romance, Reality, and Revision.” Biography, vol. 2,
no. 2, 1979, pp. 141-156, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23539341.

Katherine Frank considers the reasons for which the Brontë story is so often…

The Illiad of Homer is known as an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Homer. It takes place during the Trojan War, the ten year siege of the city of Troy. It tells the battles during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and…

Volume 1 of 6, all are wrapped in tissue paper with "fragile" written on each piece. Gilded pages, just on the top edge. Cover appears to be hand painted. A combination of greens, yellow, purple and gold provide great detail. The gold pigments have…

This edition was kept in a bright red box filled with an abundance of miniature Japanese bogies. Binding was done by Sarah Wyman Whitman, one of the most important women designers of book binding. Whitman's designs are known for their restrained…

Harper, Margaret Mills. “Nemo: George Yeats and her Automatic Script.” New Literary History, vol. 33 no. 2, 2002, pp. 291-314. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nlh.2002.0018
Margaret Mills Harper argues that George Yeats attempted to channel her…

HERLIHY-MERA, JEFFREY. “WHEN HEMINGWAY HATED PARIS: DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS, CONTEMPLATIONS OF SUICIDE, AND THE DELETED CHAPTERS OF ‘THE SUN ALSO RISES.’” Studies in the Novel, vol. 44, no. 1, 2012, pp. 49–61. JSTOR, JSTOR,…

This is another book written by Arthur Conan Doyle that documents the history of Spiritualism. It's important to note that Doyle views this history a purely academic way as the book tries to both provide a history of how the field developed while…

A book that details the act of witchhunting. Where Witchfinders focuses on the people that sparked these trials, this book describes the reality of what a trial often entailed. Images attached include 'trials' that involved torture and, most famously…

This book details the strange cultural phenomenon were witchhunters. Witchhunters occupied a celebrity status of sorts that involved a volatile combination of mob rule and vigilante justice. While our understanding of witch trials is often a…

This book documents how witchcraft applies to different international cultures. Specifically, the book examines how different tribes around Africa still revere and worship many practices some (mostly Trump voters) would describe as demonic or even…