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I visited the Rocketship for the first time today. It’s a new bookshop for children, though it has a shelf of Salisbury authors and, since I am a Salisbury author, I took some copies of Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium along. I think anyone who wants to write ought to start by reading to children, ideally between the ages of six and nine. Thatway you tune
THE AUTHOR - STEPHEN LYCETT The author. I write because it has never occurred to me not to. My father had a small library; I have been an English teacher throughout my working life; and from early childhood have been surrounded by books. I find it impossible not to emulate what I have read. If it is true that we are what we eat, it is equally true that we write what weFUTURE PROJECTS
I am nervous about revealing too much about my new work. I have to be at least a hundred pages into a book before I am confident that I can stay the course. I can say, however, that like Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium, it will be a piece of ‘portfolio fiction’ in which a longer narrative is made up of a series of shorter ones. Researches MR BLACKWOOD'S FABULARIUM It is 1851. A group of excursionists sets off from Canterbury to see the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. (Do journeyings between Canterbury and London, London and Canterbury ring any bells? Don’t worry if they don’t. You don’t have to know anything about The Canterbury Tales for Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium to make sense.) During the train journey the organiser, Percy Blackwood, invites MR BLACKWOOD: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Historical research should tell you not what to include, but what to avoid. You use it to detect what is anachronistic or incongruous. You also need it to get small details right. Here are two examples from Mr Blackwood: In The Corporal’s Tale I needed to know where the English army was billeted during the occupation of Paris in 1815. This detail was surprisingly hard THE VICTORIANS AND I I bonded with the Victorians a long time ago. Until I was six I lived in a house where there was no electricity, so I’ve experienced at first hand the ways in which family life arranges itself round a single source of light and heat. I went to a Victorian school which had gas lamps – one of the classrooms didn’t have any lights at LIONESS ATTACKING THE SALISBURY MAIL COACH: AN UPDATE I have written before in this blog about the lion attack on the Salisbury mail coach in 1816. For those of you who missed it, this is the story. In The Devil’s Coachman, the first of the inventor’s two tales, there is an account of how a lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach at what was then called the Winterslow Hut (until recentlyThe Pheasant).
A WUTHERING HEIGHTS ORIGINAL A report written for the Bronte Society in 1949 paints a sad picture of it in its death throes: ‘Originally the gateway opened into a courtyard and later on to a paved path leading to the main door. The path is now overgrown with grass and weeds and littered with THERE AND BACK : A TALE OF TWO PILGRIMAGES Those of you who know the Canterbury Tales will know that Chaucer originally intended each of the thirty-odd pilgrims to tell two tales on the outward journey and two on the return, making one hundred twenty tales in all. Either Chaucer died before completing the scheme or at some stage thought better of it and would have substituted a more modest commitment had he lived VICTORIAN ERA FICTION Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium is a new novel that paints a panorama of Victorian England through a set of charming short stories. A great read for fans of Victoriana, steam engines, top hats, ghosts and bathing machines! Available both in in paperback and e-book formats, it can be purchased either from Amazon or from this website. For further details of the book itself and to order, click here.BLOG & NEWS
I visited the Rocketship for the first time today. It’s a new bookshop for children, though it has a shelf of Salisbury authors and, since I am a Salisbury author, I took some copies of Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium along. I think anyone who wants to write ought to start by reading to children, ideally between the ages of six and nine. Thatway you tune
THE AUTHOR - STEPHEN LYCETT The author. I write because it has never occurred to me not to. My father had a small library; I have been an English teacher throughout my working life; and from early childhood have been surrounded by books. I find it impossible not to emulate what I have read. If it is true that we are what we eat, it is equally true that we write what weFUTURE PROJECTS
I am nervous about revealing too much about my new work. I have to be at least a hundred pages into a book before I am confident that I can stay the course. I can say, however, that like Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium, it will be a piece of ‘portfolio fiction’ in which a longer narrative is made up of a series of shorter ones. Researches MR BLACKWOOD'S FABULARIUM It is 1851. A group of excursionists sets off from Canterbury to see the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. (Do journeyings between Canterbury and London, London and Canterbury ring any bells? Don’t worry if they don’t. You don’t have to know anything about The Canterbury Tales for Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium to make sense.) During the train journey the organiser, Percy Blackwood, invites MR BLACKWOOD: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Historical research should tell you not what to include, but what to avoid. You use it to detect what is anachronistic or incongruous. You also need it to get small details right. Here are two examples from Mr Blackwood: In The Corporal’s Tale I needed to know where the English army was billeted during the occupation of Paris in 1815. This detail was surprisingly hard THE VICTORIANS AND I I bonded with the Victorians a long time ago. Until I was six I lived in a house where there was no electricity, so I’ve experienced at first hand the ways in which family life arranges itself round a single source of light and heat. I went to a Victorian school which had gas lamps – one of the classrooms didn’t have any lights at LIONESS ATTACKING THE SALISBURY MAIL COACH: AN UPDATE I have written before in this blog about the lion attack on the Salisbury mail coach in 1816. For those of you who missed it, this is the story. In The Devil’s Coachman, the first of the inventor’s two tales, there is an account of how a lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach at what was then called the Winterslow Hut (until recentlyThe Pheasant).
A WUTHERING HEIGHTS ORIGINAL A report written for the Bronte Society in 1949 paints a sad picture of it in its death throes: ‘Originally the gateway opened into a courtyard and later on to a paved path leading to the main door. The path is now overgrown with grass and weeds and littered with THERE AND BACK : A TALE OF TWO PILGRIMAGES Those of you who know the Canterbury Tales will know that Chaucer originally intended each of the thirty-odd pilgrims to tell two tales on the outward journey and two on the return, making one hundred twenty tales in all. Either Chaucer died before completing the scheme or at some stage thought better of it and would have substituted a more modest commitment had he lived THE AUTHOR - STEPHEN LYCETT The author. I write because it has never occurred to me not to. My father had a small library; I have been an English teacher throughout my working life; and from early childhood have been surrounded by books. I find it impossible not to emulate what I have read. If it is true that we are what we eat, it is equally true that we write what we CONTACT - STEPHEN LYCETT You can contact the author by email: stephenlycett@btinternet.com THERE AND BACK : A TALE OF TWO PILGRIMAGES Those of you who know the Canterbury Tales will know that Chaucer originally intended each of the thirty-odd pilgrims to tell two tales on the outward journey and two on the return, making one hundred twenty tales in all. Either Chaucer died before completing the scheme or at some stage thought better of it and would have substituted a more modest commitment had he lived JANE EYRE - A VICTORIAN SHOCKER - STEPHEN LYCETT The third story in Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium, ‘Miss Biddlecombe’s Proprieties’, describes what happens when sea bathing and a clandestine copy of Jane Eyre are introduced into a respectable young ladies’ boarding school. (You’ll have to read the story to find out what actually happens!) What is hard for us to imagine today is how shocking the Victorian reading public found JaneTHE THAMES IN 1851
As a thoroughfare, the Victorian Thames was much busier than the modern one. Engravings from the mid-century show the river so packed with steamers that it is remarkable that they did not collide more often. Steamers were designated above or below bridge depending on whether they operated upstream or downstream of London Bridge. The above-bridge boats, all of them paddle A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF DICKENS’S FACE A Short Biography of Dickens’s Face. Until the 1840s Charles Dickens was, like most early Victorians, clean-shaven. In 1842, he travelled for the first time to the United States where he met Edgar Allan Poe, at that time the owner of a fine but restrained moustache. Dickens was smitten and quickly grew one of his own. THE ADVENTURES OF MR AND MRS SANDBOYS If Henry Mayhew is remembered at all today, it is as author of London Labour and the London Poor, a series of articles on street traders, buskers, beggars and the like. He was also the editor of Punch and a novelist. Mr and Mrs Sandboys – or, to give it its full title, 1851 the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family who Came THE VICTORIAN OBSESSION WITH GHOSTS No collection of Victorian tales would be complete without a ghost story, hence the inclusion of The Diocesan Exorcist’s Tale. Of course, there were ghost stories before and after the nineteenth century, but the Victorian period was the golden age. One obvious reason is the proliferation of magazines like Blackwoods and The Strand, all of them eager for tales of the supernatural. THE KOH-I-NOOR DIAMOND In 1849 the ruler of the Punjab, the 10-year-old Duleep Singh, was forced to sign over his kingdom along with the Koh-I-Noor diamond to the British. Five years later he travelled to England, where he spent the rest of his life in exile, but not before giving Queen Victoria permission to re-cut the diamond, a permission he later came to regretand which led to
JOSEPH PAXTON AND THE CROSSLEY FAMILY The photograph at the head of this blog is of the ‘peach cases’ at Somerleyton Hall in Suffolk, which I visited last week. They were commissioned in the 1840s by Samuel Morton Peto, the railway entrepreneur, and designed by Joseph Paxton, then head gardener at Chatsworth House and future architect of the Crystal Palace. One of the wonders of the age, the Crystal Palace outlived VICTORIAN ERA FICTION Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium is a new novel that paints a panorama of Victorian England through a set of charming short stories. A great read for fans of Victoriana, steam engines, top hats, ghosts and bathing machines! Available both in in paperback and e-book formats, it can be purchased either from Amazon or from this website. For further details of the book itself and to order, click here.BLOG & NEWS
I visited the Rocketship for the first time today. It’s a new bookshop for children, though it has a shelf of Salisbury authors and, since I am a Salisbury author, I took some copies of Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium along. I think anyone who wants to write ought to start by reading to children, ideally between the ages of six and nine. Thatway you tune
THE AUTHOR - STEPHEN LYCETT The author. I write because it has never occurred to me not to. My father had a small library; I have been an English teacher throughout my working life; and from early childhood have been surrounded by books. I find it impossible not to emulate what I have read. If it is true that we are what we eat, it is equally true that we write what weFUTURE PROJECTS
I am nervous about revealing too much about my new work. I have to be at least a hundred pages into a book before I am confident that I can stay the course. I can say, however, that like Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium, it will be a piece of ‘portfolio fiction’ in which a longer narrative is made up of a series of shorter ones. Researches MR BLACKWOOD'S FABULARIUM It is 1851. A group of excursionists sets off from Canterbury to see the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. (Do journeyings between Canterbury and London, London and Canterbury ring any bells? Don’t worry if they don’t. You don’t have to know anything about The Canterbury Tales for Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium to make sense.) During the train journey the organiser, Percy Blackwood, invites CONTACT - STEPHEN LYCETT You can contact the author by email: stephenlycett@btinternet.com THE VICTORIANS AND I I bonded with the Victorians a long time ago. Until I was six I lived in a house where there was no electricity, so I’ve experienced at first hand the ways in which family life arranges itself round a single source of light and heat. I went to a Victorian school which had gas lamps – one of the classrooms didn’t have any lights at LIONESS ATTACKING THE SALISBURY MAIL COACH: AN UPDATE I have written before in this blog about the lion attack on the Salisbury mail coach in 1816. For those of you who missed it, this is the story. In The Devil’s Coachman, the first of the inventor’s two tales, there is an account of how a lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach at what was then called the Winterslow Hut (until recentlyThe Pheasant).
A WUTHERING HEIGHTS ORIGINAL A report written for the Bronte Society in 1949 paints a sad picture of it in its death throes: ‘Originally the gateway opened into a courtyard and later on to a paved path leading to the main door. The path is now overgrown with grass and weeds and littered with THERE AND BACK : A TALE OF TWO PILGRIMAGES Those of you who know the Canterbury Tales will know that Chaucer originally intended each of the thirty-odd pilgrims to tell two tales on the outward journey and two on the return, making one hundred twenty tales in all. Either Chaucer died before completing the scheme or at some stage thought better of it and would have substituted a more modest commitment had he lived VICTORIAN ERA FICTION Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium is a new novel that paints a panorama of Victorian England through a set of charming short stories. A great read for fans of Victoriana, steam engines, top hats, ghosts and bathing machines! Available both in in paperback and e-book formats, it can be purchased either from Amazon or from this website. For further details of the book itself and to order, click here.BLOG & NEWS
I visited the Rocketship for the first time today. It’s a new bookshop for children, though it has a shelf of Salisbury authors and, since I am a Salisbury author, I took some copies of Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium along. I think anyone who wants to write ought to start by reading to children, ideally between the ages of six and nine. Thatway you tune
THE AUTHOR - STEPHEN LYCETT The author. I write because it has never occurred to me not to. My father had a small library; I have been an English teacher throughout my working life; and from early childhood have been surrounded by books. I find it impossible not to emulate what I have read. If it is true that we are what we eat, it is equally true that we write what weFUTURE PROJECTS
I am nervous about revealing too much about my new work. I have to be at least a hundred pages into a book before I am confident that I can stay the course. I can say, however, that like Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium, it will be a piece of ‘portfolio fiction’ in which a longer narrative is made up of a series of shorter ones. Researches MR BLACKWOOD'S FABULARIUM It is 1851. A group of excursionists sets off from Canterbury to see the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. (Do journeyings between Canterbury and London, London and Canterbury ring any bells? Don’t worry if they don’t. You don’t have to know anything about The Canterbury Tales for Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium to make sense.) During the train journey the organiser, Percy Blackwood, invites CONTACT - STEPHEN LYCETT You can contact the author by email: stephenlycett@btinternet.com THE VICTORIANS AND I I bonded with the Victorians a long time ago. Until I was six I lived in a house where there was no electricity, so I’ve experienced at first hand the ways in which family life arranges itself round a single source of light and heat. I went to a Victorian school which had gas lamps – one of the classrooms didn’t have any lights at LIONESS ATTACKING THE SALISBURY MAIL COACH: AN UPDATE I have written before in this blog about the lion attack on the Salisbury mail coach in 1816. For those of you who missed it, this is the story. In The Devil’s Coachman, the first of the inventor’s two tales, there is an account of how a lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach at what was then called the Winterslow Hut (until recentlyThe Pheasant).
A WUTHERING HEIGHTS ORIGINAL A report written for the Bronte Society in 1949 paints a sad picture of it in its death throes: ‘Originally the gateway opened into a courtyard and later on to a paved path leading to the main door. The path is now overgrown with grass and weeds and littered with THERE AND BACK : A TALE OF TWO PILGRIMAGES Those of you who know the Canterbury Tales will know that Chaucer originally intended each of the thirty-odd pilgrims to tell two tales on the outward journey and two on the return, making one hundred twenty tales in all. Either Chaucer died before completing the scheme or at some stage thought better of it and would have substituted a more modest commitment had he lived CONTACT - STEPHEN LYCETT You can contact the author by email: stephenlycett@btinternet.com A VICTORIAN CANTERBURY TALES Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium is a Victorian version of the Canterbury Tales in which the members of a Canterbury temperance society go on an excursion to the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The shrine they go to worship at – the Crystal Palace, filled with the technological marvels of the age – is a thoroughly secular one, but like Chaucer’s pilgrims, they set off in A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF DICKENS’S FACE A Short Biography of Dickens’s Face. Until the 1840s Charles Dickens was, like most early Victorians, clean-shaven. In 1842, he travelled for the first time to the United States where he met Edgar Allan Poe, at that time the owner of a fine but restrained moustache. Dickens was smitten and quickly grew one of his own.THOMAS COOK
The collapse of Thomas Cook and Sons seems a good opportunity to remember the founder of the company and the age of excursions which hehelped initiate.
JANE EYRE - A VICTORIAN SHOCKER - STEPHEN LYCETT The third story in Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium, ‘Miss Biddlecombe’s Proprieties’, describes what happens when sea bathing and a clandestine copy of Jane Eyre are introduced into a respectable young ladies’ boarding school. (You’ll have to read the story to find out what actually happens!) What is hard for us to imagine today is how shocking the Victorian reading public found Jane A HISTORY OF LOST SENSATIONS 3 The olfactory world of the Victorians was ranker than ours. Let’s start with sewage. Most people know about the Great Stink of 1858, when a heatwave acting on the raw sewage in the Thames produced a stench so overpowering that Parliament was forced to close. Among the reasons for the sewage pollution in the river were the well-meant reforms of the 1830s and 40s which THE WALTZ - STEPHEN LYCETT One of the Mr Blackwood proof readers queried both the appearance of the waltz and the use of dance cards in The Corporal’s Tale, which is set in the year of Waterloo. After further research I replied to her as follows: You’ll be pleased to know that I’ve incorporated all your amendments – bar one. And that, of course, is the waltz. Ithought you
THE ADVENTURES OF MR AND MRS SANDBOYS If Henry Mayhew is remembered at all today, it is as author of London Labour and the London Poor, a series of articles on street traders, buskers, beggars and the like. He was also the editor of Punch and a novelist. Mr and Mrs Sandboys – or, to give it its full title, 1851 the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family who Came A HISTORY OF LOST SENSATIONS 1 Here’s a modern urban and domestic soundscape: – Unsilenced motorcycle exhausts, burglar alarms, lorry reversing beepers, pings and buzzes from your mobile, other people’s ring tones, humming of fridges, music from builders’ radios, clang of scaffolding poles being loaded and unloaded, rasp of garden strimmers, creak of cooling radiators, rip of opening Velcro, rumble of trains on LIONESS ATTACKING A MAIL-COACH? A TRUE TALE IN 'MR In ‘The Devil’s Coachman‘, the first of the inventor’s two tales, there is an account of how a lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach at what was then called the Winterslow Hut (until recently The Pheasant). This is a true story, which occurred in October 1816. A travelling menagerie had pulled in for the night at the inn. A lioness escaped its travelling cage and__ Stephen Lycett
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