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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1906, when Gabriela died, tragically young, she was buried on the island of Inchmahome in the Lake of Menteith. RBCG dug her grave himself. He never remarried. When he died, 30 years later, he was buried alongside her

13/18

https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2018/01/adventurer-worth-remembering/

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

In 1906, when Gabriela died, tragically young, she was buried on the island of Inchmahome in the Lake of Menteith. RBCG dug her grave himself. He never remarried. When he died, 30 years later, he was buried alongside her

13/18

https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2018/01/adventurer-worth-remembering/

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

Gabriela was a talented writer herself. Emilia Pardo Bazán introduced Gabriela’s work to Spanish literary journals, & Gabriela translated Bazán’s novel El destripador de antaño into English. She also wrote a highly regarded 3-volume biography of St Teresa of Avila.

12/18

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

Gabriela was a talented writer herself. Emilia Pardo Bazán introduced Gabriela’s work to Spanish literary journals, & Gabriela translated Bazán’s novel El destripador de antaño into English. She also wrote a highly regarded 3-volume biography of St Teresa of Avila.

12/18

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

They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

11/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #OscarWilde #WBYeats #Engels

They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

11/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #OscarWilde #WBYeats #Engels

RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.

10/18

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

RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.

10/18

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

RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.

📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière

9/18

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

RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.

📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière

9/18

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

“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”

—Ford Madox Ford, RETURN TO YESTERDAY

8/18

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

“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”

—Ford Madox Ford, RETURN TO YESTERDAY

8/18

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

“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw

7/18

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

“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw

7/18

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

Ladies & gentlemen, please allow me to introduce Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936). Traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction, he was born #OTD, 24 May.

6/18

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/a-world-of-story-rediscovered-r-b-cunninghame-graham-scotlands-forgotten-writer/

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

Ladies & gentlemen, please allow me to introduce Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936). Traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction, he was born #OTD, 24 May.

6/18

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/a-world-of-story-rediscovered-r-b-cunninghame-graham-scotlands-forgotten-writer/

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

Is buried in a grave beside his wife on a small lake-island not far from Glasgow? Has, strangely, been nearly totally ignored, even almost forgotten, as a personality & politician & writer by recent generations?

5/18

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

Is buried in a grave beside his wife on a small lake-island not far from Glasgow? Has, strangely, been nearly totally ignored, even almost forgotten, as a personality & politician & writer by recent generations?

5/18

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