MurdochsAid
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 Edwardian Era Literature
This thread would be for our many favorite Edwardian Era Literature and their authors...
To begin with, I would like to include one of our top favorites, Lucy Maud Montgomery, born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, in 1874 (one year after the Murdochs; William McMaster & Ada Florence, were born). From 1898-1911, took care of her maternal grandmother in Cavendish, PEI, wrote many poems and stories for Canadian & American magazines. LM Montgomery's first novel Anne of Green Gables met with immediate critical and popular acclaim, and its success, both national and internaional, led to seven sequels. More autobiographical than books about Anne is the trilogy of novels about another Island orphan, Emily Byrd Starr; Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, and Emily's Quest.
Did you know that in one of the latter series of EONM books, Emily's Quest, Miss Montgomery tells of an incident for which Emily has a premonitive-type dream for which she sees an oceanliner strike an iceberg, that sinks? This story involves one of her PEI friends.
She also wrote about still yet another orphan girl, Sarah Stanley, in Road to Avonlea, also followed-up with sequels.
All of the above sparked successful films and television series.
MA
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Sep/1/2005, 9:44 am
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
I found the reference to the Titanic-related scenario
in Emily's Quest...and Flavian, is the name of the ship. Coincidentally, both liners have the same amount of seven letters in their names, which leads me to believe that LM Montgomery was indeed privy to the Titanic diaster, when she wrote this EONM sequel.
Shall I share with you, the excerpts of this story? Emily, you see--while inside Disappointed Cottage, experiences this premonitive out-of-body dream, out of her loving concern for Teddy Kent. She finds him at a Liverpool train station, waiting inline to buy a ticket to board the ill-fated liner, and she beckons him to follow her. As the story goes, he misses the boat after he sees and runs after her. Therefore--his life is saved.
Have I peeked your interest yet? :book: :heyy:
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Sep/2/2005, 8:32 am
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Mr Titanic
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
If anthing, one should be rather fond of Futility written by Morgan Robertson. This book has also been known to go by the title "The Wreck of the Titan."
You may read this book Here
have you not read it in a while, or not at all. This was written prior to the Titanic's sinking, 14 years to be precise. Dating back to 1908.
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
Thank you, Mr. Titanic, for telling us about Morgan Robertson's "Futility", that tells us of "The Wreck of the Titan". :kewl:
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Mr Titanic
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
My pleasure Murdoch's Aid. I have read a few chapters in the book, I really should read the whole thing, which is why I am about to print it out. I believe we all should be farmiliar with both this story and the message it holds for us. A fine peice of Edwardian Literature. Eerie as well providing it did express characteristic's experienced by the Titanic fourteen years later.
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Sep/4/2005, 4:55 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
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Mr Titanic Wrote:
My pleasure Murdoch's Aid. I have read a few chapters in the book, I really should read the whole thing, which is why I am about to print it out. I believe we all should be farmiliar with both this story and the message it holds for us. A fine peice of Edwardian Literature. Eerie as well providing it did express characteristic's experienced by the Titanic fourteen years later.
Eerie indeed.  Wasn't the above mentioned story, the original premise for as to why Joseph Bruce Ismay wanted our "now" legendary doomed oceanliner to be named--Titanic? Hence, therefore--naming her after the Titan?
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Mr Titanic
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
No MA, Harland and Wolff named the first ship Olympic, after the Olympic class Liners, the trio, and Ismay named Titanic because the Gods lived in luxgury on mount Olympus according to Greek and Roman Mythology, and their rivals were the Titans, large adversasries, so the ship bore the name Titanic.
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Sep/13/2005, 11:03 am
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bess
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
Opal Whiteley was born in 1897 and died in 1992. she wrote and published many books. her diary can be read online at:
http://intersect.uoregon.edu/opal/default.html
you can also read about opal's life at the same place.
as can her book "The fairyland around us" here
http://www.efn.org/%7Ecaruso/fairyland/
These poems are from 1923: http://www.efn.org/%7Eopal/opalpoem.htm
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Sep/16/2005, 1:52 pm
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bess
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Re: Edwardian Era Literature
ooh if you go here:
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABK2934-0086-52
you can read about 10 pages of "Oklahoma" by Helen Churchill Candee
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Sep/16/2005, 1:59 pm
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