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“As a byword for virtuosity, Cinquevalli’s name is attached to French aviators, Scots soccer players, cricketers W.G. Grace & Ranjitsinhji, the pianist Paderewski, hospital pathologists, aeroplane engineers, a Covent Garden basket-carrier in a Pathé news clip of 1925, college girls exercising good posture in another of 1930, & dozens more.”

—David Hayes, “In Search of Cinquevalli” (Inside Story, 2018)

https://insidestory.org.au/in-search-of-cinquevalli/

#19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

“As a byword for virtuosity, Cinquevalli’s name is attached to French aviators, Scots soccer players, cricketers W.G. Grace & Ranjitsinhji, the pianist Paderewski, hospital pathologists, aeroplane engineers, a Covent Garden basket-carrier in a Pathé news clip of 1925, college girls exercising good posture in another of 1930, & dozens more.”

—David Hayes, “In Search of Cinquevalli” (Inside Story, 2018)

https://insidestory.org.au/in-search-of-cinquevalli/

#19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

“As a byword for virtuosity, Cinquevalli’s name is attached to French aviators, Scots soccer players, cricketers W.G. Grace & Ranjitsinhji, the pianist Paderewski, hospital pathologists, aeroplane engineers, a Covent Garden basket-carrier in a Pathé news clip of 1925, college girls exercising good posture in another of 1930, & dozens more.”

—David Hayes, “In Search of Cinquevalli” (Inside Story, 2018)

https://insidestory.org.au/in-search-of-cinquevalli/

#19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

“As a byword for virtuosity, Cinquevalli’s name is attached to French aviators, Scots soccer players, cricketers W.G. Grace & Ranjitsinhji, the pianist Paderewski, hospital pathologists, aeroplane engineers, a Covent Garden basket-carrier in a Pathé news clip of 1925, college girls exercising good posture in another of 1930, & dozens more.”

—David Hayes, “In Search of Cinquevalli” (Inside Story, 2018)

https://insidestory.org.au/in-search-of-cinquevalli/

#19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

“As a byword for virtuosity, Cinquevalli’s name is attached to French aviators, Scots soccer players, cricketers W.G. Grace & Ranjitsinhji, the pianist Paderewski, hospital pathologists, aeroplane engineers, a Covent Garden basket-carrier in a Pathé news clip of 1925, college girls exercising good posture in another of 1930, & dozens more.”

—David Hayes, “In Search of Cinquevalli” (Inside Story, 2018)

https://insidestory.org.au/in-search-of-cinquevalli/

#19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

Cinquevalli in sepia
looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas.
Half faun, half military man…

—Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

Cinquevalli in sepia
looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas.
Half faun, half military man…

—Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

Cinquevalli in sepia
looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas.
Half faun, half military man…

—Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

Cinquevalli in sepia
looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas.
Half faun, half military man…

—Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

Cinquevalli in sepia
looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas.
Half faun, half military man…

—Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

🧡 Tangerine dream! This old Edwardian courthouse in the north of england has a definite colour theme going on.

#AbandonedPlaces #England #History #Edwardian #Architecture #Heritage

🧡 Tangerine dream! This old Edwardian courthouse in the north of england has a definite colour theme going on.

#AbandonedPlaces #England #History #Edwardian #Architecture #Heritage

🧡 Tangerine dream! This old Edwardian courthouse in the north of england has a definite colour theme going on.

#AbandonedPlaces #England #History #Edwardian #Architecture #Heritage

🧡 Tangerine dream! This old Edwardian courthouse in the north of england has a definite colour theme going on.

#AbandonedPlaces #England #History #Edwardian #Architecture #Heritage

🧡 Tangerine dream! This old Edwardian courthouse in the north of england has a definite colour theme going on.

#AbandonedPlaces #England #History #Edwardian #Architecture #Heritage

Very genteel, right up until the moment someone's finger gets bitten off.

#baboon #mandrill #oneOfThose #victorian #edwardian #oneOfThose #humor #humour #retro

Very genteel, right up until the moment someone's finger gets bitten off.

#baboon #mandrill #oneOfThose #victorian #edwardian #oneOfThose #humor #humour #retro

Very genteel, right up until the moment someone's finger gets bitten off.

#baboon #mandrill #oneOfThose #victorian #edwardian #oneOfThose #humor #humour #retro

Very genteel, right up until the moment someone's finger gets bitten off.

#baboon #mandrill #oneOfThose #victorian #edwardian #oneOfThose #humor #humour #retro

Very genteel, right up until the moment someone's finger gets bitten off.

#baboon #mandrill #oneOfThose #victorian #edwardian #oneOfThose #humor #humour #retro

Edwardian swimming baths, drained 20 years ago and facing an uncertain future. England

#Edwardian #UrbanExploration #Photography #Heritage #Photo #History

Edwardian swimming baths, drained 20 years ago and facing an uncertain future. England

#Edwardian #UrbanExploration #Photography #Heritage #Photo #History

Edwardian swimming baths, drained 20 years ago and facing an uncertain future. England

#Edwardian #UrbanExploration #Photography #Heritage #Photo #History

Edwardian swimming baths, drained 20 years ago and facing an uncertain future. England

#Edwardian #UrbanExploration #Photography #Heritage #Photo #History

Edwardian swimming baths, drained 20 years ago and facing an uncertain future. England

#Edwardian #UrbanExploration #Photography #Heritage #Photo #History

PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/644

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/644

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/644

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/644

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/644

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PS: Billy Kay’s 5-part radio series, “Don Roberto”, which he made for the BBC in 1999 – practically the only significant piece of media attention RBCG has received in living memory – is available to listen to on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI0uOcqlxqQYMvtLxvwZaDhqrxIzKJHo

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PS: Billy Kay’s 5-part radio series, “Don Roberto”, which he made for the BBC in 1999 – practically the only significant piece of media attention RBCG has received in living memory – is available to listen to on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI0uOcqlxqQYMvtLxvwZaDhqrxIzKJHo

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PS: Billy Kay’s 5-part radio series, “Don Roberto”, which he made for the BBC in 1999 – practically the only significant piece of media attention RBCG has received in living memory – is available to listen to on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI0uOcqlxqQYMvtLxvwZaDhqrxIzKJHo

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PS: Billy Kay’s 5-part radio series, “Don Roberto”, which he made for the BBC in 1999 – practically the only significant piece of media attention RBCG has received in living memory – is available to listen to on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI0uOcqlxqQYMvtLxvwZaDhqrxIzKJHo

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

PS: Billy Kay’s 5-part radio series, “Don Roberto”, which he made for the BBC in 1999 – practically the only significant piece of media attention RBCG has received in living memory – is available to listen to on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI0uOcqlxqQYMvtLxvwZaDhqrxIzKJHo

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.

18/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/three_stories/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.

18/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/three_stories/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.

18/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/three_stories/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.

18/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/three_stories/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.

18/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/three_stories/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period – in print & online via Project MUSE

17/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/empires-and-revolutions/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period – in print & online via Project MUSE

17/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/empires-and-revolutions/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period – in print & online via Project MUSE

17/18

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/empires-and-revolutions/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Gabriela’s – Carrie’s – incredible career inspired the historian & novelist Clare Clark, whose novel BEAUTIFUL LIES is a (very lightly) fictionalised version of her life. But can fiction beat reality?

16/18

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400682/The-gaucho-MP-and-the-girl-from-the-Yorkshire-Ridings

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Gabriela’s – Carrie’s – incredible career inspired the historian & novelist Clare Clark, whose novel BEAUTIFUL LIES is a (very lightly) fictionalised version of her life. But can fiction beat reality?

16/18

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400682/The-gaucho-MP-and-the-girl-from-the-Yorkshire-Ridings

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Gabriela’s – Carrie’s – incredible career inspired the historian & novelist Clare Clark, whose novel BEAUTIFUL LIES is a (very lightly) fictionalised version of her life. But can fiction beat reality?

16/18

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400682/The-gaucho-MP-and-the-girl-from-the-Yorkshire-Ridings

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Clearly, Carrie was an accomplished thespian. She, and Robert – & Carrie’s sisters, who were in on the secret – maintained the deception throughout her life & after, under an ever-present shadow of possible scandal & ruin.

15/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Clearly, Carrie was an accomplished thespian. She, and Robert – & Carrie’s sisters, who were in on the secret – maintained the deception throughout her life & after, under an ever-present shadow of possible scandal & ruin.

15/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Clearly, Carrie was an accomplished thespian. She, and Robert – & Carrie’s sisters, who were in on the secret – maintained the deception throughout her life & after, under an ever-present shadow of possible scandal & ruin.

15/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian

Then, in 1985, papers were discovered by the family. “Gabriela” had not been born in Chile to European nobility: her real name was Carrie Horsfall, from Masham in Yorkshire, who ran away to become an actress – which might explain why her exotic accent was so hard to pin down.

14/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian