Lydia Thompson's career in Burlesque Theater allowed her to travel from London all the way to New York. The map below shows Toole's Theater located at William IV Street in Westminster, London. This theater, later renamed the Folley Theatre by Thompson herself, staged several of Thompson's performances including various English adapted French operas and her most popular show, "A Husband in Cotton Wool." When Thompson and her troupe traveled to America in the late 1860's, they primarily performed at the Wood's Museum and Metropolitan located at 1221 Broadway (30th St.) New York, New York. At this location, they performed their most popular show, "Ixion, or The Man at The Wheel." This was the troupe's most popular show, and their most controversial. Thompson and her troupe returned to England after their finale of this show, but soon returned to Wood's Museum in 1886 following the death of Thompson's husband. These two locations were the most pivotal in Thompson and her troupe's...
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This class will teach you how to surf (the Internet) and about the various ways that English studies have been transformed over the last few decades. Starting with some basic close-reading and analysis skills (aided by annotation at COVE Studio), we will then explore how those skills have been increasingly applied to new areas of inquiry (tv, film, culture, critical theory, and politics). Throughout, we will employ new digital tools that change the way we approach our subjects of inquiry, including Web annotation, timeline-building, gallery-building and GIS mapping. As we proceed, we will consider the nature of English studies: What is an English department and how does it relate to the rest of the university? What can you do with an English degree? Why is it necessary to fight for English in an increasingly STEM-oriented world?
Scroll down to "Galleries, Timelines, and Maps" in order to add items to our collective map, timeline and gallery exhibit.
Our texts at COVE Studio:
William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us" (published 1807) | William Wordsworth, "Surprised by Joy" (published 1815)
Percy Shelley, "To Wordsworth" (published 1816) and "England in 1819" (written 1819, published 1839) | Percy Shelley, "Lift not the painted veil" (published 1824)
John Keats, "If by these dull rhymes" (written 1819, published 1836)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet #22 and 32, Sonnets from the Portuguese (published 1850)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Sonnet" (published 1881) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Portrait" (Sonnet 10 of The House of Life; written 1869, published 1881) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Body's Beauty" (Sonnet 78 of The House of Life; published 1881)
Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio" (written 1856, published 1896)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur" (written 1877, published 1918) | Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring" (published 1918) | Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As kingfishers catch fire" (published 1918)
Jericho Brown, "The Tradition" (published 2015)
William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" (published 1924)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part One (published 1902) | Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part Two (published 1902) | Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part Three (published 1902) | Click here for Cannon Schmitt's COVE Editions version of Heart of Darkness
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The Eglinton Tournament took place on the Eglinton grounds in Ayrshire, which is approximately in the area of what is now mapped as Eglinton Country Park (in the modern day).
The estate consited of the arena, where the tournament was held, the Eglinton bridge, which was part of the procession from the castle to the arena grounds, and the Eglinton castle, which is where the banquet and ball was held at the end of the tournament.
On the 150th anniversary of the tournament, the grounds were opened to the public as the Eglinton Country Park, where the main attraction is the ruins of the castle that remains. It was at this time there was also a reenactment of the tournament held.
The park now consists of many features along with the ruins for the castle. There are gardens, walking trails, children's play areas, the land where an old school was demolished, two mills, the training camps from World War II, cottages, stables, ponds, bridges, and unique wildlife. Some...
moreThis location in modern-day is a city in Oklahoma called Tahlequah. Tahlequah currently is the site of a reservation for the Cherokee nation. This place was where the Cherokee people could finally settle after their miserable and painful forced trek across the country after President Andrew Jackson's signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830 uprooted their lives. The Cherokee nation traveled just over five thousand miles to reach this destination, and nearly three thousand lives were lost in the march known as "The Trail of Tears." Oklahoma, when the Cherokees settled there originally, was mostly untamed and wild. The Cherokee people faced only more discrimination and conflict from fur traders and other native tribes when they arrived in Oklahoma. They also were supposed to be under the care and protection of the federal government once they reached Oklahoma, but the government cared very little about their well-being. A government contractor was supposed to give the Cherokees...
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