Andrew ShieldsNov 24, 2024
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Summer” and a "hieroglyphic profile” of Napoleon in Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major" (1880). #111Words #ThomasHardy #TheTrumpetMajor #TheBattleOfTrafalgar #Napoleon #NapoleonicWars #GiuseppeArcimboldo #Novels #Paintings https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/giuseppe-arcimboldos-summer-and.html
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Summer” and a "hieroglyphic profile” of Napoleon in Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major" (1880)

Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major" (1880) takes place during the Napoleonic Wars, around 1806 and the Battle of Trafalgar. The novel refers ...

Andrew ShieldsNov 23, 2024
“Neck or nothing” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880). #111Words #ThomasHardy #TheTrumpetMajor #NeckOrNothing #JonathanSwift #WilliamCowper #CharlesDickens #SketchesByBoz #OED #Novels #Idioms https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/neck-or-nothing-in-thomas-hardys.html
“Neck or nothing” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880)

In Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major" (1880), while they are trying to protect Bob Loveday from a press gang, Matilda Johnson tells Anne Gar...

Andrew ShieldsNov 14, 2024
A “tattoo” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” and the annual Basel Tattoo. #111Words #ThomasHardy #TheTrumpetMajor #BaselTattoo #Tattoo https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-tattoo-in-thomas-hardys-trumpet-major.html
A “tattoo” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” and the annual Basel Tattoo

In Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major", the Royal Army's Dragoons show up in the village of Overcombe, and Anne Garland hears them break the ...

Andrew ShieldsNov 12, 2024
The playwright “Colman” and the actor “Bannister” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880). #111Words #ThomasHardy #TheTrumpetMajor #CharlesBannister #GeorgeColmanTheYounger #GeorgeColmanTheElder #Novels #Theater #Plays The playwright “Colman” and the actor “Bannister” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880)