Gaslight Digest Wednesday, October 20 1999 Volume 01 : Number 104


In this issue:


   RE: Ghost story
   Re: Ghost story
   RE: Ghost story
   Another recommendation
   RE: Ghost story
   Nominations
   Re: Nominations
   Re:  Another recommendation
   RE: Ghost story
   Re: Nominations
   A Wilde photograph?
   Re: Nominations
   Re: Another recommendation
   Re: er, say what?
   Re: A Wilde photograph?
   Re: A Wilde photograph?
   Re: A Wilde photograph?
   Re: Ghost story
   Re: Ghost story
   Re: Ghost story
   Re: Ghost story
   Re: Ghost story [Chat]
   Re: A Wilde photograph?
   RE: Ghost story [Chat]
   Re: Ghost story [Chat]
   RE:  Struwwelpeter in English Conference
   RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference
   Re: A Wilde photograph?
   RE:  Struwwelpeter in English Conference

-----------------------------THE POSTS-----------------------------

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:52:30 +0300
From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop)
Subject: RE: Ghost story

> Ok, I confess.  For movies, my favourite is The Ghost and Mrs
>Muir.  Altho I have to confess as a kid I loved 13 Ghosts.
>
>Majkia, the light-weight

Majkia, I was JUST going to say THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR! -- and feared
I would be thought frivolous.  I think there were two movie versions -- the
best one with Gene Tierney and -- Rex Harrison?

And, though it isn't exactly a ghost story, LAURA -- also with Gene
Tierney, plus Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb.  I think that really is
a ghost story.  It still haunts me.  And Laura wears such smashing
clothes.



Carroll Bishop (cbishop(at)interlog.com)

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:11:46 -0500
From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: Ghost story

Oh, yeah!! Out of our period, I recommend both the movie
of Portrait of Jenny, and the novel by Robert Nathan.  GAWD,
what a heartbreaker, though it's perhaps not QUITE a ghost
story, depending on your interpretation!

Kiwi

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:34:24 +0300
From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop)
Subject: RE: Ghost story

Of the written-down type of ghost story, I am drawn to mention two:
the Japanese fairy tale WILLOW (collected by Lafcadio Hearn, also
retold by Alan Garner) and something by Saki -- THE OPEN WINDOW maybe?
Athan will have details about where to find Hearn's WILLOW.

Alan Garner's novel THE OWL SERVICE is a wonderful story of a recurring
haunting -- involving a legend from the Mabinogian.  This is one of my
favorite books.  It's theoretically for teenagers, but I was a pretty
elderly adolescent by the time I read it first.  Anybody else know
this book?



Carroll

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:02:53 -0400
From: Blue Pencil <bluepencil(at)earthlink.net>
Subject: Another recommendation

Not a ghost story, per se, but I would nominate "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W.
Jacobs. Another chilling horror/mystery tale that everyone should read at
least once before they die (a qualifier I choose just to get us into the
Halloween mood:)  is "Two Bottles of Relish" by Lord Dunsany.

Happy haunting,

Robert G.

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:48:54 -0500
From: athan chilton <ayc(at)UIUC.EDU>
Subject: RE: Ghost story

>Of the written-down type of ghost story, I am drawn to mention two:
>the Japanese fairy tale WILLOW (collected by Lafcadio Hearn, also
>retold by Alan Garner) and something by Saki -- THE OPEN WINDOW maybe?
>Athan will have details about where to find Hearn's WILLOW.

It's in 'Kwaidan' I *think*--don't have the book here at work...  The one I
love of Hearn's (other than Willow" is the one about 'Hoichi the
Earless'--can't remember if that's what he calls it or not... my brain just
isn't working on a literary level this morning!

athan, haunted by failing memory!

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ginger Johnson <ferret(at)eskimo.com>
Subject: Nominations

I too love "The Beckoning Fair One" and would like to discuss it.

Ginger Johnson

"It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the economies."
                                          - Somerville and Ross

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:34:46 -0500
From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: Nominations

The story is on line at
http://www.litrix.com/bfairone/bfair003.htm#Top
so there would not have to be any e-texting.

Kiwi

>>> Ginger Johnson <ferret(at)eskimo.com> 10/20/99 11:16AM >>>
I too love "The Beckoning Fair One" and would like to discuss it.

Ginger Johnson

"It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the economies."
                                          - Somerville and Ross

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:16:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zozie(at)aol.com
Subject: Re:  Another recommendation

Since we're pushing the envelope a little, I'll push a little more...
Maeterlinck's odd little surrealist one-act The Intruder still gives me
goose-bumps.  Anyone know this one?

best
phoebe

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:41:51 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com>
Subject: RE: Ghost story

>Alan Garner's novel THE OWL SERVICE is a wonderful story of a recurring

"She is always owls and never flowers"  Yes, I've always loved
Garner's set THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN and MOON OF GOMRATH but
came across OWL SERVICE late as well.  An eerily written little story.

"13 Ghosts" is also a campy favorite (along with the "Haunting of
Hill House" just for Vincent Price.  Of course, they're doing a
remake of that now).

Housemate gave us all a surprise weekend in Disneyland last summer
for the 30th Anniv. of the Haunted Mansion.  Aside from a very
special midnight ride in the mansion and a few other fun things they
had the original Imagineers (many now in their 70's and 80's) as
guests for a remembrance performance.  They shared their ideas on how
they came up with the spooks and things for the house.  Walt wanted
the house to look pristine on the outside so as not to give a 'dirty'
image to the park but their imagination could run wild inside.  They
spent a year watching scary movies and reading ghost stories (I want
this job) and one of the best sources, they said (at the time, of
course) for good haunted house 'tricks' was the movie "13 Ghosts".
Second was "House on the Haunted Hill".  They really wanted that
skeleton in the acid bath but had to go with spooks popping out of
trunks.

Deborah

PS:  Carol, there is an entire of volume of ghost stories written by
Edith Wharton.  They are all excellent, my favorites are "Pomegranate
Seed" and "All Souls".  It will keep you more than entertained for
Hallowe'en!

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:51:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Nominations

Actually, we have discussed it.  Must have been a couple of years ago.

Bob C.

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Ginger Johnson wrote:

> I too love "The Beckoning Fair One" and would like to discuss it.
>
> Ginger Johnson
>
> "It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the economies."
>                                           - Somerville and Ross
>
>


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Robert L. Champ
rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity

Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
                                 Philippians 4:8

rchamp7927(at)aol.com       robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:57:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: A Wilde photograph?

Some time back I recall a discussion of a photograph purportedly showing
Oscar Wilde, in drag, acting out the part of Salome.  This photo appears
in Richard Ellman's biography, which by itself might be seen as a mark of
authentication, and yet the gist of our discussion was that the photo is a
fake.  Does anyone remember this, or am I just going bonkers?

Bob C.
_________________________________________________
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Robert L. Champ
rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity

Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
                                 Philippians 4:8

rchamp7927(at)aol.com       robertchamp(at)netscape.net
_________________________________________________
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:14:52 -0400
From: "John D. Squires" <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Nominations

Way back in the 1970s I read through all the ghost stories I could find,

especially those of the Benson brothers, James, etc.  One that struck me

enough to linger all this time was "The Dust-Cloud" by E. F. Benson from

_The Room in the Tower_ (1912).  Before looking it up just now, I
incorrectly remembered the title as "Dust".  I'm almost afraid to reread
it
in case it is not as good as I recall.
    Speaking of the Bensons, does anyone remember the name of the story
were the ghosts were the souls of aborted children?  Some controversies
live forever.
    John Squires

Chris Carlisle wrote:

> The story is on line at
> http://www.litrix.com/bfairone/bfair003.htm#Top
> so there would not have to be any e-texting.
>
> Kiwi
>
> >>> Ginger Johnson <ferret(at)eskimo.com> 10/20/99 11:16AM >>>
> I too love "The Beckoning Fair One" and would like to discuss it.
>
> Ginger Johnson
>
> "It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the economies."
>                                           - Somerville and Ross

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:40:47 -0500
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Another recommendation

        I would chime in with De La Mare's "All Hallows"....the story of a
church in which the ecumenical spirit has gone a bit too far.



                               James

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:05:18 -0500
From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: er, say what?

Oh, drat!  Make the URL http://www.litrix.com/bfairone/bfair001.htm
and at
http://www.litrix.com/readroom.htm
they have a lot more stories we've been discussing this week!

Sorry!

Kiwi

>>> Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> 10/20/99 03:59PM >>>
I went into the page for "The Beckoning Fair one" and found only chapter 3.
 nothing else.  no beckoning hands whatever?!

Er, is there more to the story than the one page?  How did I screw up?

I used :


The story is on line at
http://www.litrix.com/bfairone/bfair003.htm#Top
so there would not have to be any e-texting.




Linda

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:39:06 +0000
From: "David C. Cody" <Codyd(at)hartwick.edu>
Subject: Re: A Wilde photograph?

Hi Bob: According to Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's
grandson, the photo in question is actually a portrait
of a well-known actress of the period. Her name escapes me
at the moment, but one can see why Ellman was fooled?
she does look rather like Oscar!
yrs, David C.

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:55:40 +0300
From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop)
Subject: Re: A Wilde photograph?

>Hi Bob: According to Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's
>grandson, the photo in question is actually a portrait
>of a well-known actress of the period. Her name escapes me
>at the moment, but one can see why Ellman was fooled?
>she does look rather like Oscar!
>yrs, David C.

Perhaps Oscar had a double life as a well-known actress?
Wish I could see that photograph.  Not Langtry, not
Ellen Terry....

Carroll

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:20:01 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: A Wilde photograph?

>yet the gist of our discussion was that the photo is a
>fake.  Does anyone remember this, or am I just going bonkers?

I remember it, Bob.

Deborah

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:27:08 -0700
From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com>
Subject: Re: Ghost story

Can you imagine anyone even trying to remake "House on Haunted Hill",
without Vincent Price?  Sacrilegious.

Marta

Deborah McMillion Nering wrote:
>
> >Alan Garner's novel THE OWL SERVICE is a wonderful story of a recurring
>
> "She is always owls and never flowers"  Yes, I've always loved
> Garner's set THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN and MOON OF GOMRATH but
> came across OWL SERVICE late as well.  An eerily written little story.
>
> "13 Ghosts" is also a campy favorite (along with the "Haunting of
> Hill House" just for Vincent Price.  Of course, they're doing a
> remake of that now).
>
> Housemate gave us all a surprise weekend in Disneyland last summer
> for the 30th Anniv. of the Haunted Mansion.  Aside from a very
> special midnight ride in the mansion and a few other fun things they
> had the original Imagineers (many now in their 70's and 80's) as
> guests for a remembrance performance.  They shared their ideas on how
> they came up with the spooks and things for the house.  Walt wanted
> the house to look pristine on the outside so as not to give a 'dirty'
> image to the park but their imagination could run wild inside.  They
> spent a year watching scary movies and reading ghost stories (I want
> this job) and one of the best sources, they said (at the time, of
> course) for good haunted house 'tricks' was the movie "13 Ghosts".
> Second was "House on the Haunted Hill".  They really wanted that
> skeleton in the acid bath but had to go with spooks popping out of
> trunks.
>
> Deborah
>
> PS:  Carol, there is an entire of volume of ghost stories written by
> Edith Wharton.  They are all excellent, my favorites are "Pomegranate
> Seed" and "All Souls".  It will keep you more than entertained for
> Hallowe'en!
>
> Deborah McMillion
> deborah(at)gloaming.com
> http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

- --
Marta

"The Cemeteries of Omaha"
http://members.xoom.com/martadawes

"The New Twilight Zone"
http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:30:41 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: Ghost story

>Can you imagine anyone even trying to remake "House on Haunted Hill",
>without Vincent Price?  Sacrilegious.

Geoffrey Rush is taking Price's role.  It could be interesting.  Not
the same but...interesting.

Deborah

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:39:36 -0700
From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com>
Subject: Re: Ghost story

For movies about ghosts, there really isn't anything scarier than "The
Changeling", with the recently deceased George C. Scott.  The original
"Haunting" is the only one that comes close.

Marta

majkia wrote:
>
>  Ok, I confess.  For movies, my favourite is The Ghost and Mrs
> Muir.  Altho I have to confess as a kid I loved 13 Ghosts.
>
> Majkia, the light-weight

- --
Marta

"The Cemeteries of Omaha"
http://members.xoom.com/martadawes

"The New Twilight Zone"
http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:47:04 -0700
From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com>
Subject: Re: Ghost story

"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" is one of my favorites.  Rex Harrison was just
gorgeous when he was younger, and in the final scene where he tenderly
holds his hand out to her after she has died, he's especially
affecting.  it just makes me cry.

Marta

Carroll Bishop wrote:
>
> > Ok, I confess.  For movies, my favourite is The Ghost and Mrs
> >Muir.  Altho I have to confess as a kid I loved 13 Ghosts.
> >
> >Majkia, the light-weight
>
> Majkia, I was JUST going to say THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR! -- and feared
> I would be thought frivolous.  I think there were two movie versions -- the
> best one with Gene Tierney and -- Rex Harrison?
>
> And, though it isn't exactly a ghost story, LAURA -- also with Gene
> Tierney, plus Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb.  I think that really is
> a ghost story.  It still haunts me.  And Laura wears such smashing
> clothes.
>
> Carroll Bishop (cbishop(at)interlog.com)

- --
Marta

"The Cemeteries of Omaha"
http://members.xoom.com/martadawes

"The New Twilight Zone"
http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:59:47 +0300
From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop)
Subject: Re: Ghost story [Chat]

>>Can you imagine anyone even trying to remake "House on Haunted Hill",
>>without Vincent Price?  Sacrilegious.

Oh you Vincent Price lovers -- he was in LAURA, too.  And Judith Anderson.
What a cast.

They're going to do VANITY FAIR on A & E shortly -- maybe this weekend.

Also (Schadenfreude Department,) -- a musical version of
SHOCKHEADED (Slovenly, Struwwel) PETER is about to open on Broadway.
From London.  I loathed the book as a child, I loathe it now, but
it's clear it's never going away.  Maybe this version will translate
into something less nightmarish.

Carroll




FR
Article in
New York Times last Sunday.

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:18:03 -0700
From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com>
Subject: Re: A Wilde photograph?

I've got a copy of the Ellmann book, and looking at the picture, it
certainly looks like Wilde in drag; the eyes, nose and face are exactly
him.  The chest is definitely a man's; either powdered or shaved, but
not a woman's. The photo has the caption "Wilde in costume as Salome.
(Collection Guillot de Saix, H. Roger Viollet, Paris)".  Why was the
photo's authenticity questioned?

Marta

Robert Champ wrote:
>
> Some time back I recall a discussion of a photograph purportedly showing
> Oscar Wilde, in drag, acting out the part of Salome.  This photo appears
> in Richard Ellman's biography, which by itself might be seen as a mark of
> authentication, and yet the gist of our discussion was that the photo is a
> fake.  Does anyone remember this, or am I just going bonkers?
>
> Bob C.
> _________________________________________________
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> Robert L. Champ
> rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
> Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
>
> Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
> lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
> there is any virtue and if there is anything
> praiseworthy, meditate on these things
>                                  Philippians 4:8
>
> rchamp7927(at)aol.com       robertchamp(at)netscape.net
> _________________________________________________
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

- --
Marta

"The Cemeteries of Omaha"
http://members.xoom.com/martadawes

"The New Twilight Zone"
http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone

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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:15:56 +1000
From: Craig Walker <genre(at)tig.com.au>
Subject: RE: Ghost story [Chat]

You know

I just bought a copy of the updated German nasty-children's book and I admit
that I LOVED it.

Then again - my facination with the Victorian morbidity comes out :)

A musical you say? Wow!

Cheers

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> [mailto:owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]On Behalf Of Carroll Bishop
> Sent: Thursday, 21 October 1999 03:00
> To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Subject: Re: Ghost story [Chat]
>
>
> >>Can you imagine anyone even trying to remake "House on
> Haunted Hill",
> >>without Vincent Price?  Sacrilegious.
>
> Oh you Vincent Price lovers -- he was in LAURA, too.  And
> Judith Anderson.
> What a cast.
>
> They're going to do VANITY FAIR on A & E shortly -- maybe
> this weekend.
>
> Also (Schadenfreude Department,) -- a musical version of
> SHOCKHEADED (Slovenly, Struwwel) PETER is about to open on Broadway.
> From London.  I loathed the book as a child, I loathe it now, but
> it's clear it's never going away.  Maybe this version will translate
> into something less nightmarish.
>
> Carroll
>
>
>
>
> FR
> Article in
> New York Times last Sunday.
>
>
>

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:36:43 -0700
From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com>
Subject: Re: Ghost story [Chat]

I've never seen "Laura" in it's entirety.  I should sit down and watch
it some time.  Isn't Clifton Webb in that, too?  He's a common news item
on another discussion list I'm on; everyone reports that he haunts the
hallway where his crypt is located at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA.
Some people won't even go in the mausoleum because it's too spooky.

Marta

Carroll Bishop wrote:
>
> >>Can you imagine anyone even trying to remake "House on Haunted Hill",
> >>without Vincent Price?  Sacrilegious.
>
> Oh you Vincent Price lovers -- he was in LAURA, too.  And Judith Anderson.
> What a cast.
>
> They're going to do VANITY FAIR on A & E shortly -- maybe this weekend.
>
> Also (Schadenfreude Department,) -- a musical version of
> SHOCKHEADED (Slovenly, Struwwel) PETER is about to open on Broadway.
> >From London.  I loathed the book as a child, I loathe it now, but
> it's clear it's never going away.  Maybe this version will translate
> into something less nightmarish.
>
> Carroll
>
> FR
> Article in
> New York Times last Sunday.

- --
Marta

"The Cemeteries of Omaha"
http://members.xoom.com/martadawes

"The New Twilight Zone"
http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:34:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com
Subject: RE:  Struwwelpeter in English Conference

(Just sent in my registration for this.  My son-in-law remembers his
grandmother reading this to him and his sister.  It scared them. We raised
our daughter on Belloc's CAUTIONARY TALES!)
There are several Struwwelpeter websites.)

November 19-20, 1999
at Princeton University

A conference organized by:
Walter Sauer, University of Heidelberg
J. D. Stahl, Virginia Tech
Andrea Immel, Cotsen Children's Library

The year 1999 marks the 150th anniversary of "Slovenly Peter," the first
American translation of Heinrich Hoffmann's children's classic, Der
Struwwelpeter. To celebrate the book's advent in the New World, the
Cotsen Children's Library at the Princeton University Library Department
of Rare Books and Special Collections will host an international
conference exploring Struwwelpeter's reception in the English-speaking
world and its many translations, adaptations, and parodies.

PROGRAM

Opening Address:
- -  Brian Alderson (UK), "The Cautionary Tale in England before and after
Struwwelpeter"

The American Struwwelpeter:
- -  Ruth Bottigheimer (USA), "Struwwelpeter at an American Crossroads"
- -  Linda Lapides (USA), "The American Reception of Struwwelpeter"
- -  Walter Sauer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter Naturalized: McLoughlin
Imprints of Slovenly Peter and Related Books"
- -  J. D. Stahl (USA), "Struwwelpeter and the Development of the American
Children's Book"

Struwwelpeter in England:
- -  David Blamires (UK), "Some English Social Parodies of Struwwelpeter"
- -  Dennis Butts (UK), "Heinrich Hoffmann and Edward Lear"
- -  Emer O'Sullivan (Germany), "English Struwwelpeter Translations"

Genre Studies:
- -  Klaus Doderer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter and the Nazis: The Political
Function of a German  Picture Book"
- -  Astrid Surmatz (Germany), "Animal Struwwelpeteriades"
- -  Ulrich Wiedmann (Germany), "The Inflammable Maiden: Some Remarks on
Disobedient Girls"
- -  Beate Zekorn-von Bebenburg (Germany), "The Secret of the Soup Tureen,
or Some Remarks on Struwwelpeter and Black Humor in England, America and
Germany"

Closing Address:
- -  Ulrich Knoepflmacher (USA), "Validating Defiance: From Twain and
Kipling to Maurice Sendak"

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
There is a $25.00 registration fee. To register, please return the form
below with payment in U.S. dollars to:

    Cotsen Children's Library
    Princeton University Library
    One Washington Road
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ 08544-2098

The registration form can  be printed off the Cotsen website:
<http://www.princeton.edu/~cotsen>

Carol Digel
LoracLegid(at)aol.com
www.focdarley.org

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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:07:25 +1000
From: Craig Walker <genre(at)tig.com.au>
Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference

The idea of a Struwellpeter Conference is exciting to me :)

The only pity is that it's in the US.

Will there be a site devoted to the Conference? Notes available after the
fact? Anything available for those who cannot attend due to the tyrannt of
distcne?

Thanks

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> [mailto:owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]On Behalf Of LoracLegid(at)aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, 21 October 1999 10:35
> To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA; rapunzel(at)zikzak.net
> Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference
>
>
> (Just sent in my registration for this.  My son-in-law remembers his
> grandmother reading this to him and his sister.  It scared
> them. We raised
> our daughter on Belloc's CAUTIONARY TALES!)
> There are several Struwwelpeter websites.)
>
> November 19-20, 1999
> at Princeton University
>
> A conference organized by:
> Walter Sauer, University of Heidelberg
> J. D. Stahl, Virginia Tech
> Andrea Immel, Cotsen Children's Library
>
> The year 1999 marks the 150th anniversary of "Slovenly
> Peter," the first
> American translation of Heinrich Hoffmann's children's classic, Der
> Struwwelpeter. To celebrate the book's advent in the New World, the
> Cotsen Children's Library at the Princeton University Library
> Department
> of Rare Books and Special Collections will host an international
> conference exploring Struwwelpeter's reception in the English-speaking
> world and its many translations, adaptations, and parodies.
>
> PROGRAM
>
> Opening Address:
> -  Brian Alderson (UK), "The Cautionary Tale in England
> before and after
> Struwwelpeter"
>
> The American Struwwelpeter:
> -  Ruth Bottigheimer (USA), "Struwwelpeter at an American Crossroads"
> -  Linda Lapides (USA), "The American Reception of Struwwelpeter"
> -  Walter Sauer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter Naturalized: McLoughlin
> Imprints of Slovenly Peter and Related Books"
> -  J. D. Stahl (USA), "Struwwelpeter and the Development of
> the American
> Children's Book"
>
> Struwwelpeter in England:
> -  David Blamires (UK), "Some English Social Parodies of
> Struwwelpeter"
> -  Dennis Butts (UK), "Heinrich Hoffmann and Edward Lear"
> -  Emer O'Sullivan (Germany), "English Struwwelpeter Translations"
>
> Genre Studies:
> -  Klaus Doderer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter and the Nazis: The
> Political
> Function of a German  Picture Book"
> -  Astrid Surmatz (Germany), "Animal Struwwelpeteriades"
> -  Ulrich Wiedmann (Germany), "The Inflammable Maiden: Some Remarks on
> Disobedient Girls"
> -  Beate Zekorn-von Bebenburg (Germany), "The Secret of the
> Soup Tureen,
> or Some Remarks on Struwwelpeter and Black Humor in England,
> America and
> Germany"
>
> Closing Address:
> -  Ulrich Knoepflmacher (USA), "Validating Defiance: From Twain and
> Kipling to Maurice Sendak"
>
> REGISTRATION INFORMATION
> There is a $25.00 registration fee. To register, please
> return the form
> below with payment in U.S. dollars to:
>
>     Cotsen Children's Library
>     Princeton University Library
>     One Washington Road
>     Princeton University
>     Princeton, NJ 08544-2098
>
> The registration form can  be printed off the Cotsen website:
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~cotsen>
>
> Carol Digel
> LoracLegid(at)aol.com
> www.focdarley.org
>

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:16:01 -0400
From: Kay Douglas <gwshark(at)erols.com>
Subject: Re: A Wilde photograph?

Now this is fortuitous... I just got the Ellman biography (a $2 Ebay find,
no less) *and* I just got a digital camera, and so, BEHOLD!

http://www.angelfire.com/mt/pug/images/salome.jpg


Kay Douglas
(who agrees with Marta that that is a *very* odd-looking chest for a woman)

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:54:01 +0300
From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop)
Subject: RE:  Struwwelpeter in English Conference

>(Just sent in my registration for this.  My son-in-law remembers his
>grandmother reading this to him and his sister.  It scared them. We raised
>our daughter on Belloc's CAUTIONARY TALES!)
>There are several Struwwelpeter websites.)

I think STRUWWELPETER was one of the major causes of World War II.  Nor
am I the only person who thinks so.  I'd pay $25 NOT to go to this
conference -- fortunately I don't have to, Carol!



Carroll Bishop

>REGISTRATION INFORMATION
>There is a $25.00 registration fee. To register, please return the form
>below with payment in U.S. dollars to:

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