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Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 21 (Addendum 8: Imagination)

By Michael Guest on December 17, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 20 (Addendum 7: A Dead Friend)

By Michael Guest on November 13, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 19 (Addendum 6: What if never born?)

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Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 18 (Addendum 5: Long Live the Ignorant!)

By Michael Guest on October 15, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 17 (Addendum 4)

By Michael Guest on September 25, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Mushanokoji’s Good Natured Man 16 (Addendum 3)

By Michael Guest on September 10, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Sixteenth Instalment

By Michael Guest on September 28, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Prior to the two Australian newspaper series we’re using to reconstruct The Mystery of the Marsh, the novel appeared serialized in the New York Ledger during the period December 1882 — March 1883. You may recall that Smith moved from Europe to the United States in 1870, residing […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Fifteenth Instalment

By Michael Guest on September 15, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The scene shifts to Paris, where Smith can draw upon his youthful experience of bohemian life in the Latin Quarter.  A character in our upper echelon has gone there to take care of some … unfinished business — of the serious kind. Here we meet a new brand […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Fourteenth Instalment

By Michael Guest on September 1, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

What a presumption of Burcham’s that Lady Kate’s cousin Clara Meredith will drop everything and marry him because an inheritance of five thousand a year hinges on it! He doesn’t need Mr. Brit to tell him there will be possibly much more for him when her father dies, […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Thirteenth Instalment

By Michael Guest on August 17, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Almost a century and a half has passed since Smith launched his penny blood, so it is natural that a mere aside by the narrator can set off a question mark that repays investigation. In considering the theory of literature, the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur describes how a text […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twelfth Instalment

By Michael Guest on August 3, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Margaret Oliphant’s essay ‘The Byways of Literature: Reading for the Million’ (1858) is something of a seminal study in literature and popular culture. Her elegant piece is by turns endearing — particularly in her approval of our man Smith — and a worry for its tone of condescension towards […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Eleventh Instalment

By Michael Guest on July 20, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

This chapter presents insights into the motivations and machinations in play at the ‘higher end’ of society. A far cry from Mrs. Hurst’s scheme to have William and Goliah banged up for the ‘theft’ of the horse and wagon, motivated partially by her rivalry with Mrs. Gob over […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Recap

By Michael Guest on July 13, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

I’ll keep good the promise made by the 1883 newspaper sources for this reconstructed penny blood mystery, by providing their mid-way summary. The author of the novel is the Englishman John Frederick Smith, the most popular writer of the mid-nineteenth century — but in later years all but […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Tenth Instalment

By Michael Guest on July 6, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

Smith lingers over May Day while introducing a new source of conflict. The early twenty-first century reader may wince at the themes of gender and morality so firmly foregrounded. In our era we have the advent of LGBT rights, and concurrent with them, the destabilization, at least, of […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Ninth Instalment

By Michael Guest on June 22, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Picture a May Day festival on an English village green, complete with Morris dancers and maypole, the main setting for this instalment. May Day is a tradition widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, celebrating fertility and the return of Spring. There are indeterminate roots in the pagan Roman Floralia, […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Eighth Instalment

By Michael Guest on June 8, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Part of this instalment outlines the troubled history of Bunce, the courageous tramp who risked his life to defend the two girls in the Red Barn. His childhood memories begin in one of about a dozen martello towers in Essex, which prompts the illustration this week, a scene […]

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