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...youngest son of a sugar magnate, who has come of age in California and now lives in New York City, where he teaches writing at Columbia University. The novel begins as he returns to the Philippines to bury his estranged father: in a scene straight out of a Victorian potboiler, the will is read in the posh attorney's offices, and Caracera learns that his father has bequeathed to him his largest legacy...
Letterboxing is said to have started in England 150 years ago when a Victorian walker left a bottle by Cranmere Pool, Devon, with his calling card in it and an invitation to those who found the bottle to add theirs. It caught on in the U.S. after a 1998 article about the British pursuit appeared in Smithsonian magazine. Since then, more than 9,000 letterboxes have been planted in state parks and nature preserves around the country. Each waterproof box contains a logbook and a rubber stamp. Visitors mark the book with their stamp and use the stamp...
...frankly kind of sexy) letters to each other since they were 13, but they've never actually met. In fact, Alice refuses to let Gerard come to visit her. Does she have some connection to Gerard's creepy, semi-insane mom, who's also English? And to those Victorian horror tales that Gerard keeps stumbling across? What's she hiding, anyway? The answers are yes, yes, and wait...
Abigail K. Joseph ’04 spent two summers in England viewing collections of Victorian pornography for her thesis entitled, “Pornomania: Sex and Bibliography in Victorian England...
...received about four times the number of submissions it published. Pieces that made the cut include a critical essay exploring how “Michael Jackson’s image is a project for queer study” by a student from Smith College, another on gender roles in Victorian fiction by a student from Dartmouth, and a poem entitled “Generic Dyke Rock Band,” written by BGLTSA co-chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05. Skier also performed this poem at the BGLTSA “Gaypril” kick-off earlier this...