In this issue: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean A. M. Burrage: A Hearty Thank You Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean RE: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean RE: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: A. M. Burrage: A Hearty Thank You Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Today in History -- Dec 02 re: _Fanny Hill_ ==> publication ==> ? Burrage Review of _Mansfield Park_ and Von Stroheim's _Greed_ Today in History -- Dec 03 Anybody who can tape Christmas Carol for me? Re: A. M. Burrage: A Hearty Thank You -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:55:07 -0500 From: Kay Douglas <gwshark(at)erols.com> Subject: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Ellen Moody's query about Burrage sent me scurrying to a book of his stories that I recently got, but alas, no biographical information was included. But I thought I might toss a query out of my own: Can anyone recommend stories or books that have themes involving the Caribbean? The ideal book would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. It needn't be fiction. I'm off in a few weeks for St. Lucia (*fleeing* the holiday season - hooray!) and while I have a nice little stack of books to take with me to read, I'm sadly lacking in "Caribbean-themed" material. All I've come up with so far is Derek Walcott. Have pity on me. (Okay, that sounds hollow coming from someone about to leave it all behind!) Kay Douglas
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:18:08 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean > Caribbean? The ideal book would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. Well, not the Caribbean but pirates and pirate treasure, I just read a book called RIPTIDE (current fiction) by the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs. They also wrote RELIC that was made into an indifferent movie. However this involves the treasure hunt to end all treasure hunts and if you like a really good thriller this Pirate did GO to the Carribbean. I was on the edge of my seat, metaphorically speaking, throughout. Then there's always TREASURE ISLAND to state the obvious. Get a copy with N.C. Wyeth's illustrations and your trip is complete. Also, I think I mentioned that December 13th is St. Lucia's day so wear a crown of candles when you go to the Island and have St. Lucia buns. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:20:46 -0800 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Kay asked: << Can anyone recommend stories or books that have themes involving the Caribbean? The ideal book would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. It needn't be fiction. I'm off in a few weeks for St. Lucia (*fleeing* the holiday season - hooray!) and while I have a nice little stack of books to take with me to read, I'm sadly lacking in "Caribbean-themed" material. All I've come up with so far is Derek Walcott. Have pity on me. (Okay, that sounds hollow coming from someone about to leave it all behind!)>> A. Conan Doyle wrote several pirate tales featuring the infamous Captain Sharkey that might interest you. "How the Governor of St. Kitt's Came Home" "Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock" "How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey" "The Blighting of Sharkey" And how about a few Sabatini pirate tales for some fun reading! :-) Have a great trip! best, Patricia
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:35:19 -0800
From: "Jesse F. Knight" <jknight(at)internetcds.com>
Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean
> And how about a few Sabatini pirate tales for some fun
> reading! :-)
Yes, indeed!
No ghosts, but _Captain Blood_ I do believe is one of the great 20th
century tales of swashbuckling. Sabatini wrote two collections of Captain
Blood short stories, as well. I think that _Captain Blood Returns_ is an
especially fine collection. All three volumes are very fast reading.
Sabatini also wrote _The Black Swan_, but I feel that is not up to the three
Blood volumes.
Jesse F. Knight
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:45:06 -0700 (MST) From: John Woolley <jwoolley(at)dna420.mcit.com> Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Kay Douglas writes: > Can anyone recommend > stories or books that have themes involving the Caribbean? The ideal book > would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. Not from our period, but a fine book, and chock full of "pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean", is _On Stranger Tides_ by Tim Powers. I've never been disappointed by Powers -- astonishingly creative, every book different and weird. - -- Fr. John
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:12:36 -0600
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean
At 01:55 PM 12/1/99 -0500, Kay Douglas wrote:
>Ellen Moody's query about Burrage sent me scurrying to a book of his stories
>that I recently got, but alas, no biographical information was included.
>But I thought I might toss a query out of my own: Can anyone recommend
>stories or books that have themes involving the Caribbean? The ideal book
>would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. It needn't be fiction.
>I'm off in a few weeks for St. Lucia (*fleeing* the holiday season -
>hooray!) and while I have a nice little stack of books to take with me to
>read, I'm sadly lacking in "Caribbean-themed" material. All I've come up
>with so far is Derek Walcott. Have pity on me. (Okay, that sounds hollow
>coming from someone about to leave it all behind!)
>
>
A couple of years ago a very fun pop history book appeared called
_Under The Black Flag: Romance And Reality Of Life Among The Pirates_ by
David Cordingly. Probably cna get that through the library. Most of the
areas it covers are in Caribbean islands and waters. For ghosts, the usual
recommendation would have to be _The Ghost Pirates_ by William Hope
Hodgson, though it never states where the ship is sailing. And both C.S.
Forester and Alexander Kent shipped their captains to the Caribbean on a
pretty regular basis.
James
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 15:07:36 +0001 From: Ellen Moody <Ellen2(at)JimandEllen.org> Subject: A. M. Burrage: A Hearty Thank You A hearty thank you to Deborah, Andy, Richard, and Kiwi. All this information helps enormously. I will get the St James Guide by hook or crook and go to the website right now. Thank you all so much. 'One who Saw' is superb. I didn't want my students to miss it. Ellen
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 15:16:35 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Is Jeffrey Farnol still available? The one I've always remembered is BLACK BARTLEMY'S TREASURE. Carroll
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 15:19:01 -0500 From: "Roberts, Leonard" <lroberts(at)email.uncc.edu> Subject: RE: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean I recommend A General History of Pirates by Charles Johnson. The copy I am reading came from our public library so it should be fairly generally available. It is composed of short lives of various pirates. So far it has been quite enjoyable. Also a couple of Dewey Lambdin's Allen Lewrie novels are set in the Caribbean. I think the titles are The French Admiral and The Gun Ketch. Len Roberts > At 01:55 PM 12/1/99 -0500, Kay Douglas wrote: > >Ellen Moody's query about Burrage sent me scurrying to a book of his > stories > >that I recently got, but alas, no biographical information was included. > >But I thought I might toss a query out of my own: Can anyone recommend > >stories or books that have themes involving the Caribbean? The ideal > book > >would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. It needn't be fiction. > >I'm off in a few weeks for St. Lucia (*fleeing* the holiday season - > >hooray!) and while I have a nice little stack of books to take with me to > >read, I'm sadly lacking in "Caribbean-themed" material. All I've come up > >with so far is Derek Walcott. Have pity on me. (Okay, that sounds > hollow > >coming from someone about to leave it all behind!) > > > > > > A couple of years ago a very fun pop history book appeared called > _Under The Black Flag: Romance And Reality Of Life Among The Pirates_ by > David Cordingly. Probably cna get that through the library. Most of the > areas it covers are in Caribbean islands and waters. For ghosts, the > usual > recommendation would have to be _The Ghost Pirates_ by William Hope > Hodgson, though it never states where the ship is sailing. And both C.S. > Forester and Alexander Kent shipped their captains to the Caribbean on a > pretty regular basis. > > James
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:45:42 -0600 From: Andy Duncan <dunca012(at)bama.ua.edu> Subject: RE: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Philip Gosse's 1924 _The Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers_ was reprinted in paperback in 1988 by Rio Grande Press and is a staple of souvenir shops in Key West, though I don't know about St. Lucia. It's in encyclopedia form with many short entries, so it may not be the best beach reading, but it's a trove of interesting lore. On a slightly more modern track, you might take with you any of Jimmy Buffett's books -- one memoir, one novel, and one short story collection, by my count. I've enjoyed them at the beach, and the novel, anyway, is full of modern-day pirates. -- Andy Andy Duncan Department of English Box 870244 103 Morgan Hall University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 andrew.duncan(at)ua.edu www.angelfire.com/al/andyduncan
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 00:15:54 +0000 From: Simon Coleman-Smith <simon(at)dryadsbubble.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: A. M. Burrage: A Hearty Thank You Hi chaps and chapesses Ref Burrage: Also watch out for 'Smee' and 'The Sweeper', (both much anthologised, apparently, though I only have them in Fontana Ghost Stories books) under the name 'Ex-Private X'. Clute and Grant's 'Encyclopaedia of Fantasy' has a good article on Burrage. (This book is thoroughly recommended to all Gaslight folk, as it covers anything that's 'fantasy' and all horror except the purely non-supernatural.) The St James Guide is out of print isn't it? Worth looking for second-hand too is the Equation Chillers paperback 'Warning Whispers', edited by the in-this-context ubiquitous Jack Adrian. It has a substantial introduction, (and Ellen, if you send me an sae I'll break all copyright and photocopy said intro and the Encyclopaedia article for you, if it'd help). Incidentally folks, where do we stand on copyright? Something to do with 50 years from the author's death, isn't it? I'd like to put an occasional story on my (currently non-existent) website - what's the difficulties? TTFN, Simon - ----- Original Message ----- From: Ellen Moody <Ellen2(at)JimandEllen.org> To: <Gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 3:06 PM Subject: A. M. Burrage: A Hearty Thank You > A hearty thank you to Deborah, Andy, Richard, and Kiwi. All this > information helps enormously. I will get the St James Guide by > hook or crook and go to the website right now. > > Thank you all so much. > > 'One who Saw' is superb. I didn't want my students to miss it. > > Ellen > >
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 00:29:59 +0000 From: Simon Coleman-Smith <simon(at)dryadsbubble.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Doubt very much if Farnol is still in print, but second-hand copies shouldn't be difficult to find, try Bibliofind.com or Addall.com. Jeffery Farnol was my Mum's favourite author. If I remember rightly, there were a few pirate-related tales. Black Bartlemy's Treasure has been mentioned; Martin Conisby's Vengeance was a sequel, and Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer, fits in there somewhere. Shame he's a bit late for this group (his first, The Broad Highway, was in 1910), I'd love an excuse to find time to read what Mum always told me I should. He did a couple of ghost stories: Black Coffee and The Cupboard (neither involving pirates, unfortunately!), both in The Shadow and Other Stories (1929). If you like the idea of pirates, highwaymen, Romance with a capital R, etc, look out for him. Or try: http://es-parto.lancs.ac.uk/%7Eesarie/farnol/farnol.htm for the Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society, and for an annotated bibliography: http://www.violetbooks.com/farnol-bib.html TTFN, Simon - ----- Original Message ----- From: Carroll Bishop <cbishop(at)interlog.com> To: <gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 12:16 PM Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean > Is Jeffrey Farnol still available? The one I've always remembered > is BLACK BARTLEMY'S TREASURE. > > Carroll > > >
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 20:07:50 -0500
From: "John D. Squires" <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean
Patricia Teter wrote:
> Kay asked: << Can anyone recommend stories or books that
> have themes involving the Caribbean? The ideal book
> would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. It needn't be fiction.
> I'm off in a few weeks for St. Lucia (*fleeing* the holiday season -
> hooray!) and while I have a nice little stack of books to take with me to
> read, I'm sadly lacking in "Caribbean-themed" material. All I've come up
> with so far is Derek Walcott. Have pity on me. (Okay, that sounds hollow
> coming from someone about to leave it all behind!)>>
>
> A. Conan Doyle wrote several pirate tales featuring the infamous
> Captain Sharkey that might interest you.
> "How the Governor of St. Kitt's Came Home"
> "Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock"
> "How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey"
> "The Blighting of Sharkey"
>
> And how about a few Sabatini pirate tales for some fun
> reading! :-)
>
> Have a great trip!
> best,
> Patricia
As I have mentioned more than once, M. P. Shiel (1865-1947)
was born on Montserrat in the British West Indies, and has been
identified as the first West Indian novelist, though little of his opus
is set there. According to legend Shiel was the first born son following
8 or 9 daughters. His father, who claimed descent from the ancient
kings of Ireland, celebrated by claiming the Island of Redonda for his
son, and having him crowned its king in a [probably drunken] ceremony
conducted by a local prelate on Shiel's 15 birthday in 1880.
Phipps moved to England in the 1880s & eventually published around
30 books & numerous short stories. A few touched on his island roots.
CONTRABAND OF WAR was one of the few contemporary novels
written about the Spanish-American War. It first appeared as a serial in
"Pearson's Weekly" (London) beginning May 7 and continuing through
July 9, 1898, with each weekly chapter incorporating current events of the
war into the novel. The only U. S. edition was published by Gregg Press in
1968 & is still available. It offset the original Grant Richards edition of
1899
which was probably revised & cut from the serial text. The Gregg edition
includes a new Preface which concludes, "CONTRABAND OF WAR is
no masterpiece. It is crude, romanticized, and marred by a Hollywood ending.
But it is powerful in imagination and symbolism, damned good fun to read,
and most important, it is virtually the only contemporaneous imaginative work
which we can turn to for an insight into the events of the Cuban rebellion of
1896." One of the chapters describes an exciting race around Redonda by
two warships.
In his extended essay on Shiel published in "Shiel in Diverse Hands"
[Morse, 1983], William Scott Home suggests Redonda was the likely site
of the undersea cavern were James Doudy Saul is trapped in what is arguably
Shiel's single best short story, "The Dark Lot of One Saul" ["The Grand
Magazine", Feb., 1912, pp 843-859; rpt, BEST SHORT STORIES OF
M. P. SHIEL, Gollancz, 1948, XELUCHA & OTHERS, Arkham, 1975.]
Another interesting story dealing with voodoo, though nominally set in the
American Ante-bellum South, strikes me as likely inspired West Indian folk
tales,
"A Shot at the Sun" ["The Pictorial Magazine", Vol. 18, No. 230, Oct 24, 1905,
pp 402-404, rpt, MORE TALES OF UNKNOWN HORROR, ed. by Peter
Haining, New English Library, 1979.] For more information on Shiel, see
Alan Gullette's excellent pages at
http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/shiel.sht
There is a lot of on line information about Montserrat, which was largely
evacuated
due to its active volcano a few years ago. Jan Bester sells water colors of
island
scenes, with lots of links to other sites at
http://members.tripod.com/~Island_Art/homepage.html
Bester also has a page of photos taken by Ren & Eleanor Morse
on Montserrat and Redonda on their trips in 1978 & 1979. Their
adventures were published separately as THE QUEST FOR
REDONDA [Morse, 1979], and reprinted as chapter 9 of his
monumental two volume bio-bibliography, THE WORKS OF
M. P. SHIEL UPDATED [aka THE SHIELOGRAPHY UPDATED,
Morse, 1980.] QUEST also includes most of the material then known
about the Kingdom of Redonda. Since its publication, a number of
rival "kings" have surfaced each claiming to be the only true successor
to Shiel's uncertain throne. At least three of them have competing
web pages. Some of the related sites I have bookmarked are
http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/shiel.sht
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/2652.htm
http://206.251.29.134/guides/destinations/bysection/0,2508,1476,00.html
http://caribbeansupersite.com/antigua/redonda.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5900/index.html
http://www.redonda.org/
http://www.antiguanice.com/redonda/
http://www.jalypso.com/redonda/
http://www.antiguanice.com/features/f-king.htm
The first two are mostly concerned with Shiel, followed by
some travel related sites on the Caribbean, then "royal"
Redondan sites. Bill Gates has the strongest "legal" claim
with an actual paper trail originating with Gawsworth. Leggett
has no paperwork. Jon Wynne-Tyson denies everything Bob
Williamson claims in his multiple web pages. JWT [whose
claim was supported by Morse] formally transferred his interest
to the Spanish novelist Javier Marias, along with the Shiel-Gawsworth
copyrights. You can find information on Marias on line, book
reviews & the like, but when I last looked there was nothing
about his "ascension to the throne." He did mention it in a novel published
in Spain last year, which may be translated soon??
There are rumored to be numerous other claimants. Gawsworth
clearly tried to sell the crown several times & may have "sold" or
mortgaged it more than once. Shiel's granddaughter also surfaced
in England, was proclaimed "Queen of Redonda" by the tabloids &
taken to the Island for tabloid photos of her on the shore wearing a
crown. Before Queen Maggie surfaced Rev. Paul de Fortis wrote a
History of Redonda outlining the various claims & arguing for Fredrick
Boston, a barrister living in England, but born on Montserrat. I don't
know if the de Fortis book is still available, but I can dig out the English
publisher's address, if you like. De Fortis died several years ago in a
bizarre bondage accident.
The Kingdom of Redonda is an interesting literary legend, but you have
to accept Shiel's word that there is anything to the story at all. It has
been
suggested by one critic that he made it all up to promote the 1929 reissues
of his early novels by Victor Gollancz in England. That may be true, but
the legend has generally been accepted. To me it is merely a footnote in the
research towards an eventual biography of Shiel which I hope to write someday.
All best,
John Squires
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 19:32:32 -0800 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Speaking of pirates, has anyone read the book "The Big Dig: The 10 Million Dollar Search for Oak Island's Legendary Treasure" by D'arcy O'Connor? This is a fascinating book, and in some places decidedly creepy. The idea that Oak island was completely reengineered to hide pirate gold or some other treasure just fascinates me. Marta "John D. Squires" wrote: > > Patricia Teter wrote: > > > Kay asked: << Can anyone recommend stories or books that > > have themes involving the Caribbean? The ideal book > > would involve pirates, ghosts, and the Caribbean. It needn't be fiction. > > I'm off in a few weeks for St. Lucia (*fleeing* the holiday season - > > hooray!) and while I have a nice little stack of books to take with me to > > read, I'm sadly lacking in "Caribbean-themed" material. All I've come up > > with so far is Derek Walcott. Have pity on me. (Okay, that sounds hollow > > coming from someone about to leave it all behind!)>> > > > > A. Conan Doyle wrote several pirate tales featuring the infamous > > Captain Sharkey that might interest you. > > "How the Governor of St. Kitt's Came Home" > > "Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock" > > "How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey" > > "The Blighting of Sharkey" > > > > And how about a few Sabatini pirate tales for some fun > > reading! :-) > > > > Have a great trip! > > best, > > Patricia > > As I have mentioned more than once, M. P. Shiel (1865-1947) > was born on Montserrat in the British West Indies, and has been > identified as the first West Indian novelist, though little of his opus > is set there. According to legend Shiel was the first born son following > 8 or 9 daughters. His father, who claimed descent from the ancient > kings of Ireland, celebrated by claiming the Island of Redonda for his > son, and having him crowned its king in a [probably drunken] ceremony > conducted by a local prelate on Shiel's 15 birthday in 1880. > Phipps moved to England in the 1880s & eventually published around > 30 books & numerous short stories. A few touched on his island roots. > CONTRABAND OF WAR was one of the few contemporary novels > written about the Spanish-American War. It first appeared as a serial in > "Pearson's Weekly" (London) beginning May 7 and continuing through > July 9, 1898, with each weekly chapter incorporating current events of the > war into the novel. The only U. S. edition was published by Gregg Press in > 1968 & is still available. It offset the original Grant Richards edition of > 1899 > which was probably revised & cut from the serial text. The Gregg edition > includes a new Preface which concludes, "CONTRABAND OF WAR is > no masterpiece. It is crude, romanticized, and marred by a Hollywood ending. > But it is powerful in imagination and symbolism, damned good fun to read, > and most important, it is virtually the only contemporaneous imaginative work > which we can turn to for an insight into the events of the Cuban rebellion of > 1896." One of the chapters describes an exciting race around Redonda by > two warships. > In his extended essay on Shiel published in "Shiel in Diverse Hands" > [Morse, 1983], William Scott Home suggests Redonda was the likely site > of the undersea cavern were James Doudy Saul is trapped in what is arguably > Shiel's single best short story, "The Dark Lot of One Saul" ["The Grand > Magazine", Feb., 1912, pp 843-859; rpt, BEST SHORT STORIES OF > M. P. SHIEL, Gollancz, 1948, XELUCHA & OTHERS, Arkham, 1975.] > Another interesting story dealing with voodoo, though nominally set in the > American Ante-bellum South, strikes me as likely inspired West Indian folk > tales, > "A Shot at the Sun" ["The Pictorial Magazine", Vol. 18, No. 230, Oct 24, 1905, > > pp 402-404, rpt, MORE TALES OF UNKNOWN HORROR, ed. by Peter > Haining, New English Library, 1979.] For more information on Shiel, see > Alan Gullette's excellent pages at > > http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/shiel.sht > > There is a lot of on line information about Montserrat, which was largely > evacuated > due to its active volcano a few years ago. Jan Bester sells water colors of > island > scenes, with lots of links to other sites at > > http://members.tripod.com/~Island_Art/homepage.html > > Bester also has a page of photos taken by Ren & Eleanor Morse > on Montserrat and Redonda on their trips in 1978 & 1979. Their > adventures were published separately as THE QUEST FOR > REDONDA [Morse, 1979], and reprinted as chapter 9 of his > monumental two volume bio-bibliography, THE WORKS OF > M. P. SHIEL UPDATED [aka THE SHIELOGRAPHY UPDATED, > Morse, 1980.] QUEST also includes most of the material then known > about the Kingdom of Redonda. Since its publication, a number of > rival "kings" have surfaced each claiming to be the only true successor > to Shiel's uncertain throne. At least three of them have competing > web pages. Some of the related sites I have bookmarked are > > http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/shiel.sht > > http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/2652.htm > > http://206.251.29.134/guides/destinations/bysection/0,2508,1476,00.html > > http://caribbeansupersite.com/antigua/redonda.htm > > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5900/index.html > > http://www.redonda.org/ > > http://www.antiguanice.com/redonda/ > > http://www.jalypso.com/redonda/ > > http://www.antiguanice.com/features/f-king.htm > > The first two are mostly concerned with Shiel, followed by > some travel related sites on the Caribbean, then "royal" > Redondan sites. Bill Gates has the strongest "legal" claim > with an actual paper trail originating with Gawsworth. Leggett > has no paperwork. Jon Wynne-Tyson denies everything Bob > Williamson claims in his multiple web pages. JWT [whose > claim was supported by Morse] formally transferred his interest > to the Spanish novelist Javier Marias, along with the Shiel-Gawsworth > copyrights. You can find information on Marias on line, book > reviews & the like, but when I last looked there was nothing > about his "ascension to the throne." He did mention it in a novel published > in Spain last year, which may be translated soon?? > There are rumored to be numerous other claimants. Gawsworth > clearly tried to sell the crown several times & may have "sold" or > mortgaged it more than once. Shiel's granddaughter also surfaced > in England, was proclaimed "Queen of Redonda" by the tabloids & > taken to the Island for tabloid photos of her on the shore wearing a > crown. Before Queen Maggie surfaced Rev. Paul de Fortis wrote a > History of Redonda outlining the various claims & arguing for Fredrick > Boston, a barrister living in England, but born on Montserrat. I don't > know if the de Fortis book is still available, but I can dig out the English > publisher's address, if you like. De Fortis died several years ago in a > bizarre bondage accident. > The Kingdom of Redonda is an interesting literary legend, but you have > to accept Shiel's word that there is anything to the story at all. It has > been > suggested by one critic that he made it all up to promote the 1929 reissues > of his early novels by Victor Gollancz in England. That may be true, but > the legend has generally been accepted. To me it is merely a footnote in the > research towards an eventual biography of Shiel which I hope to write someday. > > All best, > John Squires - -- Marta "The Graveyards of Omaha" http://members.xoom.com/martadawes "The New Twilight Zone" http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 20:34:13 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Thanks Simon Coleman-. I just pulled old Jeffery out of my memory -- think I read him in high school, had a friend who was mad about him -- we read everything we could find and most of those titles sound familiar. There was a song in Black Bartlemy -- "There's a fine Spanish dame and Joanna's her name, Black Bartlemy, Bartlemy Ho" - something like that. There was a good girl and a bad girl (Joanna I think) and one of them a pirate? I think she died. She was of course a brunette. Brunettes died. I liked her best, she was very gutsy. I don't even remember the good girl. Wonder if Robarts Library at U. of Toronto has any Jeffery Farnol? Must investigate.... I think Blackbeard was in one of them. Thanks, that was fun. Carroll >Doubt very much if Farnol is still in print, but second-hand copies >shouldn't be difficult to find, try Bibliofind.com or Addall.com. > >Jeffery Farnol was my Mum's favourite author. If I remember rightly, there >were a few pirate-related tales. Black Bartlemy's Treasure has been >mentioned; Martin Conisby's Vengeance was a sequel, and Adam Penfeather, >Buccaneer, fits in there somewhere. > >Shame he's a bit late for this group (his first, The Broad Highway, was in >1910), I'd love an excuse to find time to read what Mum always told me I >should. He did a couple of ghost stories: Black Coffee and The Cupboard >(neither involving pirates, unfortunately!), both in The Shadow and Other >Stories (1929). If you like the idea of pirates, highwaymen, Romance with a >capital R, etc, look out for him. Or try: >http://es-parto.lancs.ac.uk/%7Eesarie/farnol/farnol.htm >for the Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society, and for an annotated >bibliography: >http://www.violetbooks.com/farnol-bib.html > >TTFN, Simon > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Carroll Bishop <cbishop(at)interlog.com> >To: <gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> >Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 12:16 PM >Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean > > >> Is Jeffrey Farnol still available? The one I've always remembered >> is BLACK BARTLEMY'S TREASURE. >> >> Carroll >> >> >>
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 21:24:51 -0500 From: Kay Douglas <gwshark(at)erols.com> Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean Wow, thanks everyone! I filled an entire page in my bulging "to read" notebook with your suggestions and have 5 or 6 book orders winging their way to booksellers already. I was especially interested to read about Jeffery Farnol at Jessica Salmonson's excellent Violet Books site. She cited Farnol as an influence on George MacDonald Fraser and Jack Vance, two favorites of mine (and I'd already packed a book by each for the trip, interestingly enough). When someone mentioned Sabatini, I had that "of course, dummy!" feeling; I'm ashamed to say I bought Captain Blood some months ago but haven't yet read it. Finally, I'm greatly intrigued by the material on Shiel and the Kingdom of Redonda that John Squires provided - thanks for the generous links and background. Happily humming the G&S "Pirate King" song, Kay
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 21:08:05 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean >Speaking of pirates, has anyone read the book "The Big Dig: The 10 >Million Dollar Search for Oak Island's Legendary Treasure" The idea >that Oak island was completely reengineered to hide pirate gold or >some other treasure just fascinates me. This is the basis for the book RIPTIDE. Very creepy. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 23:08:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Query: Ghosts, pirates, Caribbean
We mentioned Jeffery Farnol on the list a couple of years ago, Carroll,
because we had a listmember who was named after him. I remember taking
_The Shadow and Others_ out of the library around that time and enjoying
especially "Black Coffee," a mummy story of more than usual interest. Too
bad it couldn't be offered on Gaslight.
What I remember best about Farnol is that he was interested in boxing.
Well, a writer has to have _some_ outside pastime!
Bob C.
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Carroll Bishop wrote:
> Is Jeffrey Farnol still available? The one I've always remembered
> is BLACK BARTLEMY'S TREASURE.
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> Carroll
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 01:02:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Dec 02
Interesting things that happened December 2nd:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1859 Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist
In 1885 George Minot, US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
+ Nikos Kazantazakis, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
In 1906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV and LP records
In 1914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, Sting)
In 1915 Adolph Green, songwriter
In 1917 Ezra Stone, American actor, producer
In 1923 Maria Callas, NY opera singer (soprano)
In 1924 Alexander Haig, former U.S. Secretary of State (R)
In 1925 Julie Harris (in Michigan)
Events worth noting:
In 1804 Napoleon becomes first French emperor, placing crown on his own
head.
In 1805 Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz.
In 1816 First savings bank in the US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund
Society.
In 1822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US.
In 1823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
In 1852 French monarchy restored; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor.
In 1859 John Brown is executed by hanging at Charles Town, (West) Virginia.
In 1887 Charles Dickens' first public reading in U.S., in New York City.
In 1899 US and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them.
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 00:03:56 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: re: _Fanny Hill_ ==> publication ==> ?
Recently I asked:
>>>
Subject: _Fanny Hill_ ==> publication ==> ?
I wonder if anyone can make the remote connection from the publication of _Fanny
Hill_ (which was recently mentioned) to a Gaslight discussion of a few months
ago about a murdering rogue.
<<<
I quote from J.H. Plumb "noted historian and author" who introduces my copy of
_Fanny Hill_ (1749, 1965 ed.):
"The publisher, Ralph Griffiths, the propietor of the _Monthly Review_,
which naturally commented favourably on _Fanny Hill_, reputed to have made
L10,000 profit on the book. Griffiths was a lapsed Presbyterian whose
principles no longer stood in the way of commerce. His son, intent on
maintaining the state that his father had kept, was reduced to wholesale
poisoning and was hanged."
This is erroneous in that the murdering rogue was his grandson, Thomas
Griffiths Wainewright, who ended his days exiled in Australia.
I quote from the _Dictionary of National Biography_ (1901):
"WAINEWRIGHT, THOMAS GRIFFITHS (1794-1862), poisoner and art critic, son of
Thomas Wainewright of Chelsea, by his wife Ann (1773-1794) was born at Chiswick
in October 1794. His mother was the daughter Dr. Ralph Griffiths [q. v.],
publisher of the 'Monthly Review,' to whom he owed his second name. Having lost
both his parents in infancy, Wainewright was adopted by his grandfather, ..."
I may have typos in my etext of this entry, because I'm not sure if he died
in 1852 or '62.
There are etexts about him, including ones by Wilde and by Dickens, at the
Gaslight webpage:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/DNB-Wainewright.htm
Stephen D
mailto:Sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 09:59:23 -0500 From: Douglas Greene <dgreene(at)odu.edu> Subject: Burrage Jack Adrian describes himself as the "Burrage Pusher-in-Chief"--almost singlehandedly he has revived interest in Burrage, who was indeed a fine ghost story writer, almost the equal of his contemporary E. F. Benson. Burrage also wrote some interesting psychic detective stories, which Jack collected for Ash-Tree as THE OCCULT FILES OF FRANCIS CHARD. Doug Greene
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:09:01 -0600
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Review of _Mansfield Park_ and Von Stroheim's _Greed_
At
http://www.salon.com/ent/col/srag/1999/12/02/adaptation/index.html
James
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:55:34 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Today in History -- Dec 03 Interesting things that happened December 3rd: Birthdays on this date: In 1857 Joseph Conrad (in Poland), novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness) In 1879 Sir Rowland Hill, introduced first adhesive postage stamp In 1883 Anton von Webern, Austrian 12-tone composer In 1895 Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter In 1900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel '38) In 1911 Nino Rota, composer Events worth noting: In 1818 Illinois becomes the 21st state. In 1828 Andrew Jackson elected President of the United States. In 1833 Oberlin College in Ohio, first truly coeducational college, opens. In 1866 Paid Fire Department takes over from volunteer companies (city?).
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:44:04 -0600 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Anybody who can tape Christmas Carol for me? I understand that Patrick Stewart will be starring as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol this weekend (tomorrow) on cable (TNT?). I don't get cable, and would be more than willing to reimburse any Gasser who would be willing to tape it and mail the tape to me. Anybody willing? Kiwi
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 18:06:53 +0000 From: Bob Davenport <bob(at)bobdavenport.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: A. M. Burrage: A Hearty Thank You >Incidentally folks, where do we stand on copyright? Something to do with 50 >years from the author's death, isn't it? I'd like to put an occasional story >on my (currently non-existent) website - what's the difficulties? > >TTFN, Simon It used to be fifty years from the author's death; it's now seventy years (at least in the EU). A few years to go for Thoms Burke, alas. Bob ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #118 ******************************