Podcast appearances and mentions of Amelia E Barr

The Maid of Maiden Lane audiobook by Amelia E. Barr. The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Amelia E. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love story plot. Some of those issues include: the moral dilemma and debate over the French Revolution, and how that event touched the lives of the immigrants in America; the prejudices between the immigrants from England, and those from France or Holland, and how those animosities affected the ordinary lives of the people; and the political debate over titles, foreign policy, and such things(for example)as where the capital of the nation was to reside, New York or Philadelphia. The author gives us a picture of New York City that is vastly different from today, with it's residential areas and tree lined roads as the backdrop for this very interesting drama. Cornelia, the Maiden of Maiden lane, is loved by two young men. Who she chooses, and the obstacles that the two face because of the opposition of their fathers, friends, and a huge mistake that turns everything upside down, propels the story towards its climax, where a surprise character, spiritual in nature, comes to the rescue, while sacrificing her own desire for love to help the two lovers. Good character, love, and the family ties and relationships that existed during those times are very well portrayed by the author, and the book is as interesting from a historical point of view as it is from a truly interesting and sweet old fashioned love story.

After a late sleep a young woman gets an urgent message from her friend. She takes a leisurely breakfast and goes to find out what the excitement is. She isn’t overly impressed with the news of her friends’ engagement. I’m sure this news won’t keep you awake either. Story 14:14 The Man Between: An International Romance by Amelia E. Barr https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/787 Supporting Sleepy Time Tales If you would like to support my work and help keep the podcast available and for free, there are several ways you can support the show. You can sign up at BetterHelp for professional, low cost counselling services at: https://trybetterhelp.com/sleepytime You can support the show at a supporter on Patreon and receive a host of bonuses including Patron only episodes, special edits and real! Postcards.

Richard Minsky is an American scholar of bookbinding and a book artist. He is the founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City. We met in his studio in Hudson, NY to talk, among other things, about the proselytizing of book art, books as metaphors, the art of book covers, publishers' bindings, modernism, art history and the evolution of technology, Will Bradley, the acquisition of books, stamped book covers, gilt, the stamping process, the extraordinary lives of some book cover designers, catalogues and the importance of good photographs, thinking hard and writing about your collection, Amelia E. Barr, the joys of shopping on e-bay, Rochester NY, and the Barbara Slate Archive. 

In 1888, the historical novel Remember the Alamo was published to popular and critical acclaim. The novel's unlikely author was Amelia Barr, a British writer who lived in Texas in the mid-nineteenth century. To support herself after her husband and three of her children died of yellow fever in Galveston, she launched a remarkably successful writing career. In her memoir, completed at age eighty, she wrote that she hoped her life story might help "any sad or doubtful woman to outleap her own shadow, and to stand bravely out in the sunshine to meet her destiny."