#19thcenturyliterature — Public Fediverse posts

✨Ah, yes, behold the riveting tale of Frank Dudley Beane, the 19th-century doctor who discovered a "beautiful purplish hue" after dabbling in #ergot and cannabis! 🤯 Clearly, his groundbreaking medical insight was overshadowed only by his unparalleled literary productivity—one article. 📚 Bravo, Beane!
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/ #FrankDudleyBeane #Cannabis #MedicalHistory #19thCenturyLiterature #GroundbreakingDiscoveries #HackerNews #ngated

✨Ah, yes, behold the riveting tale of Frank Dudley Beane, the 19th-century doctor who discovered a "beautiful purplish hue" after dabbling in #ergot and cannabis! 🤯 Clearly, his groundbreaking medical insight was overshadowed only by his unparalleled literary productivity—one article. 📚 Bravo, Beane!
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/ #FrankDudleyBeane #Cannabis #MedicalHistory #19thCenturyLiterature #GroundbreakingDiscoveries #HackerNews #ngated

✨Ah, yes, behold the riveting tale of Frank Dudley Beane, the 19th-century doctor who discovered a "beautiful purplish hue" after dabbling in #ergot and cannabis! 🤯 Clearly, his groundbreaking medical insight was overshadowed only by his unparalleled literary productivity—one article. 📚 Bravo, Beane!
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/ #FrankDudleyBeane #Cannabis #MedicalHistory #19thCenturyLiterature #GroundbreakingDiscoveries #HackerNews #ngated

✨Ah, yes, behold the riveting tale of Frank Dudley Beane, the 19th-century doctor who discovered a "beautiful purplish hue" after dabbling in #ergot and cannabis! 🤯 Clearly, his groundbreaking medical insight was overshadowed only by his unparalleled literary productivity—one article. 📚 Bravo, Beane!
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/ #FrankDudleyBeane #Cannabis #MedicalHistory #19thCenturyLiterature #GroundbreakingDiscoveries #HackerNews #ngated

✨Ah, yes, behold the riveting tale of Frank Dudley Beane, the 19th-century doctor who discovered a "beautiful purplish hue" after dabbling in #ergot and cannabis! 🤯 Clearly, his groundbreaking medical insight was overshadowed only by his unparalleled literary productivity—one article. 📚 Bravo, Beane!
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/ #FrankDudleyBeane #Cannabis #MedicalHistory #19thCenturyLiterature #GroundbreakingDiscoveries #HackerNews #ngated

Modern medicine erases the horrors of widespread child mortality often depicted in gutting detail in 19th-century literature.

In the 1800s, ~50% of U.S. children didn’t live past age 5. An English scholar reflects on how undermining #vaccines risks reviving those forgotten tragedies. https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-killed-victorian-children-at-alarming-rates-their-novels-highlight-the-fragility-of-public-health-today-242273 @bookstodon #Bookstodon @histodons #Histodons #PublicHealth #19thCenturyLiterature #VictorianEra #Jane Eyre

Fancying a rewatch of #BBC 1999 #TV version of #ElizabethGaskell Wives and Daughters. We haven’t seen it since it first aired but have the #DVD, which I just pulled out of a precariously tall DVD pile in our sitting room! Looking forward to it. I reread the original novel recently. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215364/ #BritishTV #90sTV #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #NineteenthCenturyLiterature #Novels #CostumeDrama #WomenAuthors #FemaleAuthors #Books #19thCenturyNovels #VictorianNovels #Fiction

attn Jennifer Fleisssner hive! MALADIES OF THE WILL is now out! #c19amlit #19thcenturyliterature do I have a #MaladyOfTheWill or am I just #tired

“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”

- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady

#WilkieCollins #VictorianFiction #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #FemaleSleuths #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

Oo #18thcentury #19thcentury #19thcenturyliterature ? The metalanguage is still solidifying on here…