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Yes, please join us! I want to hear about Longbourn. I'm very eager to get my hands on a copy of that one.
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RIP Admiral Joawny Trebuchett
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Some of you may remember Admiral Joawny Trebuchett as an active and swashbuckling member of many historic and seafaring communities online. Sadly, his beloved Cara Cali has given me the news that he passed away on the 24th of October. She provided the following obituary:
"It is with deep regret we inform you that the real life man behind Admiral Joawny Trebuchett of the Continental Navy and member of the New Orleans City Council passed away quietly in his sleep, on October 24, 2016. Jo was 52 and came to Second Life 01/28/2007. In that time he co-owned New Orleans City Sim. He served as an officer in the Antiquity Royal Navy and Continental Navy, and steward of the All Seas Battle Group. He sent many a pirate to their doom upon Beekhaven, Blake's, Antiquity, Jolie Rouge, Fairwinds, Sanctuary, Jabberwock, Coastal, Morgans, Pirates Destiny and the Tradewinds seas. Friend to all, family to Amanda Dallin-Vanbeeck, Sandrine Vanbeeck, Trinity Claymore and beloved of Cara Cali, he will be greatly missed. We shall not see his like again. "
Wish sincere sympathy for all his friends and family,
Merry
Foray Literary Society notes and plans
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Our second meeting was held today, 6 November 2016. Attendance was lower than at our launch, but we suspected that might be due to the USA's time change.
We added some titles to the list of reading ideas. We decided it would be good to have a forum-based location for that list, and decided this Living History VW forum would be an excellent choice.
It was suggested that we could watch some Regency-era video, and listen to audiobooks, together. Kghia agreed to take the lead on organizing watching and listening parties, with assistance from Jacon who has had some experience with setting up these sorts of things in past.
All are encouraged to add suggestions, whether at meetings, or by comment to this topic!
The list of planned reads, and possible future reads, follows.
for discussion Sunday 4 December 2016:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Additional optional titles for 4 December 2016
Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Olympe de Gouge’s Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian (or at least the opening scene)
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Future Reading Ideas
Lady Susan by Jane Austen, written in 1794 but unpublished until 1871
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, 1820, set in 12th c.
Poldark Saga by Winston Graham published 1945-2002, set in 1783 - 1820
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier published 1936, set in 1820
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 2004 set in 1806
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers 1983 time-travel to 1801
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 1820
Zorro by Isabel Allende 2005 sent in California 1790 – 1815 + epilogue 1840
Tales of the Napoleonic Era, by Honore de Balzac
Titles by Jeffery Farnol
Titles by Zen Cho
"A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter" by William Deresiewicz.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy, written in 1905 and set in 1792
On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers, 1987, set in 1718
Longbourn by Jo Baker, 2013, retelling Pride & Prejudice from the servants’ point of view
Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 1936, set in 1834 or so
Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester, 1950, set in 1794 (& other Hornblower series novels)
At our next meeting we will discuss Pride and Prejudice and related works as listed above, choose our book to discuss in our March 2017 meeting, move forward with other plans already initiated, and welcome additional ideas.
Ephemera is back ~ and in Regency Somerset!
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Good news it, Ephemera is back! Ephe has located her new shop in the Sanditon Shops, Port Austen, Regency Somerset, Antiquity Argyle.
Whew.
That's a pretty long address.
Just grab this carriage and it will take you to her door. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20Argyle/45/96/31
updated by @merry-chase: 06 Nov 2016 04:04:22AM
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Thank you Tiamat and Tatiana!
Tatiana, suggestion taken -- yes, adjusting the photo size did clean up the formatting. And yes, sounds good -- I'll set this up as a recurring Event. W00t!
Tia, here's to another re-read!
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Whew! Lots of exiting stuff, new stuff, to explore and learn. This old bat has just managed to log on to the new site and navigate her way to the Forums and the Account Settings. I'm curmudgeonly in my virtual old age, and dislike learning new things, but my typist can see the benefits of the new features here and will probably convince me, eventually, that the change was a good thing. She proposes three cheers for Tatiana, for managing old site and new and the transition between. Hip, groovy, hurrah!
Foray Literary Society notes and plans
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[This post was originally only to let everyone know we had launched the Regency-era literary society, "Foray." But at our second meeting we decided this forum would be a great place to keep track of what we're doing and planning. ]
Today Foray had its first meeting and I can tell it's going to be a ton of fun. Join us. We have crumpets. You can catch up quickly on what went down at the first meeting, in the notes below this pretty graphic. (Ackermann I L U)
Foray 2016 10 02 first meeting report
Ten people attended the first meeting of Foray, the Antiquity Aubrey & Austen Association, a Regency era literary society, held at 10:00 a.m. SLT on Sunday 02 October 2016. All came dressed in period attire, and there were moments of light roleplay, but mostly casual planning. Our Plans:
- To have a meeting at 10:00 a.m. SLT on the first Sunday of each month in our upstairs Reading Room at the Sanditon Shops, Port Austen, Regency Somereset, Antiquity Argyle. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20Argyle/70/101/31
- To share recommendations and reviews of any literature written during, OR about, the Regency era.
- To choose one book per quarter as our Quarterly Read to read together and discuss at one of four special sessions per year, on the first Sundays in December, March, June and September.
- To sometimes include live readings in voice, of a short passage a couple of paragraphs from some book under discussion. All are welcome to bring readings and suggestions and to lead discussions!
- To share info about, and invitations to, Foray, with other people and groups who may be interested.
- To go as light or as in-depth as we like, reading only the Quarterly Read novel, or adding in supplementary readings, as we each individually choose.
We chose for our first Quarterly Read the popular favorite, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen , which is free via Project Gutenberg, linked in a bookcase on your left as you enter our Reading Room, or here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
Those who wish to delve deeper may join in also reading Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of the Frankenstein author of the same name) which youll find linked from a book on the front counter in the Reading Room, or here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420
Next to the volume with Vindication is another early feminist authors work, Olympe de Gouges Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen , written in 1791 in reaction to the French revolutionary constitution. http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.asp
In addition I (Merry Chase) personally find some interesting parallels between Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Patrick OBrians Master and Commander, the first of his seafaring Aubrey and Maturin adventures, so as this is our first Quarterly Read of Foray, Im going to throw in Master and Commander by Patrick OBrian as an additional related work, and suggest that if nothing else, you read the opening where Maturin and Aubrey, future fast friends, nearly come to a duel over quiet at a concert. Im sorry that M&C is not available free, like P&P is, but you can pick up a copy used, quite cheap.
Our first Quarterly Read discussion will be led by me unless someone else steps forward and volunteers to lead it. That will be on the 4 th of December.
Next Meeting: Sunday 6 November 2016 10amSLT, for general Regency literary discussion.
updated by @merry-chase: 06 Nov 2016 12:09:31PM
Vintage Images from the British Library go back to 17th c
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More than a million images dating back to the 17th century are available for free download from the British Library. Here's an article with a small sample gallery and a link...
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/illustration/british-library-offers-over-1-million-free-vintage-images-for-download/#1
And here is a link directly to the British Library on Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/
updated by @merry-chase: 06 Oct 2016 06:37:31AM
Buckingham Update
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I missed the tour I planned to join. Will there be another?
Inara Pey's "Living in a Modemworld" gives DECADES and NING thumbs up!
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So true, it took a virtual village. And beyond those credited...I might not be the only one who had additional help from friends.
Friends from RC helped me: Claire, Sister, Cara, Sere...and friends who had never before heard of RC: Vittrad, Rickety, Armix, Monty... it's been a great way to make more people aware of history in SL, from behind the festival scenes as well as attending.