A Little Girl is Dead

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Until the 1960s, only once had a southern jury convicted a white man on a capital offense on the testimony of a Negro. The white man was Leo Frank, and he was convicted of the murder of fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan in 1913 not because the jury believed his Negro accuser, but because Frank was a Jew and a capitalist. In 1915, a mob seized Frank from prison and hanged him near the home where Mary was born. There is little doubt Frank was innocent, and his lynching shocked the civilized world. Golden has set out to illumine a crucial moment in the American past, a moment in which courage and mob rule, prejudice and humanity, compassion and frenzy clashed and contended – and courage, humanity, and compassion lost.

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:28:55 +0000

A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the Original 87 Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 ? 25 October 1400?) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. William Morris (24 March 1834 ? 3 October 1896) was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Born in Walthamstow in north London, Morris was educated at Marlborough and Oxford. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (28 August 1833 ? 17 June 1898) was an English artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in England; his stained glass works include the windows of St Martin’s Church in Brampton, Cumbria, the church designed by Philip Webb, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge and in Christ Church College, Oxford. In addition to painting and stained glass, Burne-Jones worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, and illustration, most famously designing woodcuts for the Kelmscott Press’s Chaucer in 1896.

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A Little Girl is Dead

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer