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Old Mother Goose,
When she wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

Jack’s mother came in,
And caught the goose soon,
And mounting its back,
Flew up to the moon.

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2021-05-13

"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."


🖼️Unconquerable: illustration by from King Albert's Book depicting an heroic woman carrying forward the tattered flag of Belgium after invasion by the Germans in 1914.

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2021-04-29

𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑡
𝑆𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑡,
𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑠 & 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑦;
𝐴𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟,
𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦.

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2021-04-07

Rackham illustration from The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, Brunhilde.

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2021-02-01

Goblin Market is a long narrative poem by & tells the of sisters, Laura & Lizzie, & the river Illustrated here by A for children or an expression of Rosetti’s feminism & homosexuality? You decide.

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2021-01-26

The trees and the axe of Aesop Fables
by Arthur Rackham

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2021-01-04

For before Halloween, here are a few illustrations by Arthur Rackham from The Ingoldsby Legends which is a collection of ghost stories, myths & legends. They were written mostly as pastiches of medieval folklore & poetry.

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2020-10-29

by Arthur Rackham for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book 1922.

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2020-09-26

born in 1867. An unassuming, shy and retiring late starter, gently encouraged by his wife pursued his creative passion and this is just some of the magical legacy he left behind.

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2020-09-19