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Would you like to sin With Elinor Glyn On a tiger skin? Or would you prefer To err with her On some other fur?
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1848: Ruinous
"It is too often the case that children, provided they spend half a dozen hours a day at school, are permitted to spend the rest as they please. The daughter, probably, becomes that pitiable, helpless object, a novel reading girl. No man or woman is fully educated if not accustomed to manual labor.—Whatever accomplishments they possess, whatever their mental training, a deduction must be made for ignorance of that important branch.”
~From Texas Presbyterian. (Houston, Tex.), January 1, 1848
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More from Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor, page 78.
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Hard-hitting questions from the March 29, 1903 edition of the New York Times.
"Literary."
Thank goodness for those “Literary” courses.
The novel reading menace and its causes.
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26 Aug 1858: The Dangers of Ladies Reading Novels
"Novel Reading. - A whole family brought to destitution in England, has had all its misfortunes clearly traced by the authorities to an ungovernable passion for novel reading entertained by the wife and mother. - The husband was sober and industrious, but his wife was indolent and addicted to reading everything procurable in the way of romance. This led her to utterly neglect her husband, herself and her eight children. One daughter in despair, fled the parental home, and threw herself into the haunts of vice. Another was found by the police chained by the legs to prevent her from following her sister’s example. The house exhibited the most offensive appearance of filth and indigence. In the midst of this pollution, privation and poverty, the cause of it sat reading the last ‘sensation work’ of the season, and refused to allow herself to be disturbed in her entertainment."
Gasp! Sounds like temperance movement should’ve targeted the novel instead of alcohol.
Huston, E. G., editor. San Antonio Texan (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1858, Newspaper, August 26, 1858; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth232732/ : accessed August 26, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, Texas.
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~ Kent's New Commentary: A Manual for Young Men, by C.H. Kent, 1880 “All sympathy for real suffering is dead and buried, by novel reading. It is the natural fruit.”
~ Friendly Talks About Marriage, G. W. Shinn, 1897
Reblogging this because “supremely fascinating in appearance” might be my new favourite way of saying PHWOAR.
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I just finished The Woman in White, so this immediately made me think of Marion, who is plain-faced and described as dark-skinned and having a mustache. She’s also an amazing badass hero.