While in her fifties Sewell first devised the idea to write her own book about horses. Initially intended, as she wrote in her diary, to be an instructional work to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses little did she know it would become a best-seller. Bustling Victorian London’s society, transportation and industry was dependent on horse power, but there were also emerging vegetarian and animal anti-cruelty groups. Through the trials and tribulations of Black Beauty we see a cross-section of the working conditions and quality of life for horses.
FROM http://www.online-literature.com/anna-sewell/Black Beauty is widely credited with helping to change the way horses were cared for. There is little doubt that the book helped hasten the abolishment of the “bearing rein” — a strap used to pull a horse’s head in toward its chest to force the appearance of a noticeable arch of the neck. Black Beauty also placed a harsh spotlight on the practice of “docking” or cutting short a horses tail, largely for the sake of appearances — a practice that is still widely debated.
FROM How ‘Black Beauty’ Changed The Way We See Horses
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/02/163971063/how-black-beauty-changed-the-way-we-see-horses
Tag Archives: Writers
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/26~
What 18th century French artist made his reputation with his acclaimed marble sculpture of Mercury, now in the Louvre?
What Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice satirical cartoonist went on to author books, plays, revues, and screenplays?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/26/january-26/
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr: Born September 12, 1892
Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. (September 12, 1892-August 11, 1984) was an American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (of the previous generation) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding, and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation.
FROM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf_Sr.
Asked how to say his name, Knopf told the Literary Digest:
“Sound the k: k’nupf.”
Obituary in New York Times~
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/12/obituaries/alfred-a-knopf-91-is-dead-founder-of-publishing-house.html
The history of the house of Knopf~
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/about/index.html
July 14, 1916~ The Dada Manifesto
Richard Boix. Da-da (New York Dada Group). 1921. Ink on paper. 11 1/4″ x 14 1/2″ (28.6 x 36.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art / Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
On July 14, 1916, the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to “get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.” This aim could be achieved simply by saying: “Dada.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/dada-100-years-later.html
Dada~ Born February 5, 1916 100th anniversary of DADA~
Max Ernst. Murdering Airplane. 1920. Collage. 2 1/2” x 5 1/2” (6.35 cm × 13.97 cm). Private collection.
Nelle Harper Lee: April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, ABC News named her their Person of the Week.
“19 Impressive To Kill A Mockingbird Covers from Around the World”~ https://www.printmag.com/design-culture-2/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-covers/
“[A] selection of the film’s original artwork: some of the colour lobby cards and posters from its international release”~
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2012/feb/08/to-kill-a-mockingbird-artwork-in-pictures
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, first published in 1960: list of 403 editions on Goodreads~ https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/3275794-to-kill-a-mockingbird?per_page=100&utf8=%E2%9C%93
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/26~
What 18th century French artist made his reputation with his acclaimed marble sculpture of Mercury, now in the Louvre?
What Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice satirical cartoonist went on to author books, plays, revues, and screenplays?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/26/january-26/
100th anniversary of the Dada Manifesto~
http://www.tate.org.uk/search?gm=300
The 1st and 2nd DADA Art Manifestos~
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/dada/Dada-Manifesto.html
DADA: the art movement that questioned everything~
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/100-years_dada–the-art-movement-that-questioned-everything/41939442
Dada as a worldview~ http://retroavangarda.com/dada-as-a-worldview/
Dada~ Born February 5, 1916~
https://schristywolfe.com/2016/02/05/dada-born-february-5-1916/
D-Day: June 6, 1944
Robert Capa’s Longest Day~ http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day
http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/gellhorn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn
Images of the Week: D-Day in Color~
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2014/06/06/images-of-the-week-d-day-in-color/
March 2~
Jean-François Gilles Colson (1733-1803)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Gilles_Colson
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
http://www.drseussart.com/bio/
The Misty Miss Christy 