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Many Happy Returns: March 24th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 24, 2010 in --March, Birthdays, Poets and poetry

William Morris, b.1834. The Defence of Guinevere by William Morris. Quoth Mr. Morris: “If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” “With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: March 8th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 8, 2010 in --March, Birthdays, Children's Fiction, General

Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows, b. 1859. And isn’t it appropriate that Grahame’s birthday falls at the beginning of March? The Wind in the WIllows is definitely a spring sort of story, even though its scenes take the reader through the year from its beginning with spring-cleaning to a summer paddling [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: March 7th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 7, 2010 in --March, 2010 Projects, Birthdays, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, b.1806, the eldest of twelve children was a sickly child and was injured in an accident at the age of fifteen. She was a devout Christian, a learned scholar and an opponent of slavery in spite of the fact (or maybe because of it) that her family’s fortunes were founded on their [...]

 
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Birthday Watch: March 26th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 26, 2009 in --March, Birthdays

Nathaniel Bowditch, b.1773. We read Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham last year. He’s a very interesting character, a Yankee seaman and an extraordinary mathematician and ship’s captain. Let your boys read this one, and anyone who is interested in numbers and math. Edward Bellamy, b.1850. His very popular novel, Looking Backward, was [...]

 
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Birthday Watch: March 24th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 24, 2009 in --March, Birthdays

Fanny Crosby, b. 1820. William Morris, b.1824. Wm. Morris and Guenevere’s Defence. Malcolm Muggeridge, b. 1903: “The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on Earth.”

 
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Birthday Watch: March 8th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 8, 2009 in --March, Birthdays, General

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., b.1841. Kenneth Grahame, b.1859. Brian Sibley on the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Wind in the Willows (2008).

 
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Birthday Watch: March 6th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 6, 2009 in --March, Birthdays, General

Michaelangelo, b.1475. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, b.1806. Rose Fyleman, b.1877. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, b.1928. Love in the TIme of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reviewed by Tanabata. Thatcher Hurd, children’s author, b.1949.

 
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Birthday Watch: March 5th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 5, 2009 in --March, Birthdays

Today is the birthday of author and illustrator, Howard Pyle. Magistramater on Howard Pyle and Robin Hood.

 
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To This Great Stage of Fools: Born March 20th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 20, 2008 in --March, Birthdays, General

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, b. 1828. I’ve read several Ibsen plays: A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the People. He’s fond of pittting an individual against the stifling rules and expectations of society. The individual rebels but is often killed or forced back into the mold. Ibsen saw the problem clearly: individuals [...]

 
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To This Great Stage of Fools: Born March 17th

Posted by Sherry on Mar 17, 2008 in --March, Birthdays, General

Kate Greenaway, b. 1846. In the US we award the Caldecott Medal to the best illustrator of a children’s picture book each year. In Britain, they give the Greenaway Medal “for distinguished illustration in a book for children.” Many of the illustrators who have won the Greenaway Medal are unfamiliar to me, but I do [...]

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