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October 5th 1713, birth of French philosopher, writer, and prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment Denis Diderot, best known as editor, and contributor to the ‘Encyclopédie’ founded in 1751 alongside Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The ‘Encyclopédie’ was the first to include contributions from a wide field of authors on a variety of topics. Its skeptical and secular tone with regard to religion, became both a rallying call for the forerunners of the French Revolution, and saw bans by the French Government and Catholic church. From 1759 to 1765, Diderot was the sole contributor, authoring 7,000 articles on a variety of topics. Dying in 1784, his remains were unearthed nine years later by graverobbers, who stole his lead lined coffin, and dumped his corpse, his remains were then transferred to a mass grave. On the same day in 1789, near riot over the lack of bread available in Paris, thousands of women began to march on Versailles, demanding that the royal family including Louis XVI return to Paris, which bowing to the pressure of the march did so, in the process ending the royal privilege of the ‘ancien régime’, which had existed in France since the 15th century. The event is seen as a defining moment in the beginnings of the revolution that Diderot sowed the seeds of. October 8th 1774, death of German Phantasmagoria pioneer, illusionist, and occultist Baron Johann Georg Schropfer. The horror theatre shows later named Phantasmagoria were first developed by Schröpfer in the form of entertainment séances, and the use of magic lanterns to project the appearance of ghosts. Schröpfer would invite audiences into his Leipzig coffee house, where after preparing a magical punch of his own recipe (Continued in the comments). #ghost #history #historymemes #phantasmagoria #gothictales #frenchrevolution #tarothistory #tarotcards #tarotart #tarotartist #mortalsmarket #illustrationdaily #gothicillustration #guillotine #gothichistory #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #ghosthistory #ghostsighting #macabre #macabreart #enlightenmentistherevolution #ageofenlightenment #denisdiderot #sceance #magiclantern #scéance #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #gothictheatre https://www.instagram.com/p/CUxhE47FIDW/?utm_medium=tumblr

Flipping through 'Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present' (by Clive Bloom) to the boney beat of a skeleton drum. The second installment of The Gothic: What? is on its way. In the meantime, check out the posts already on the Generally Gothic site. Link in bio. #generallygothic #gothic #gothicliterature #literature #englishliterature #literarycriticism #clivebloom #skeleton #drum #gothichistory #literaryhistory #history #blog #writer #blogseries

16th October 1793, previous Queen of France prior to the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, then called ‘Widow Capet’, is executed by guillotine. Convicted of high treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal, she is executed at the Place de la Révolution, following the execution of her husband King of France Louis XVI, which took place on the 21st January 1793. Labelled as ‘Madame Deficit’, for her extravagant lifestyle, and lack of understanding of the economic problems facing France prior to the Revolution; her reputation was further tarnished during the "Diamond Necklace Affair", in which she was falsely accused of defrauding the crown jewels and the jewelers in order to purchase a very expensive necklace. The affair also involved the Italian adventurer, magician, alchemist, occultist and free mason Giuseppe Balsamo, who self styled himself Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. Marie Antionette also is falsy associated with the story in which she misunderstood the cries of the French poor for bread, as being cries of dissatisfaction for eating bread, in which she replied. ‘Let them eat cake’. This account actually derives from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘confessions’, and was published in 1782, and is not based upon Marie Antionette. Due to these accusations, and other false accounts, such as her affair with Lafayette, whom she actually hated, and incest with her son; she was tried and convicted with her execution already arranged before her trial. Her head was then given to Marie Tussaud for the making of a wax death mask, and her body thrown into an unmarked grave. Continued in the comments: #history #historymemes #gothictales #frenchrevolution #tarothistory #tarotcards #tarotart #tarotartist #mortalsmarket #illustrationdaily #gothicillustration #guillotine #gothichistory #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #widowcapet #marieantoinette #marieantoinettestyle #frenchhistory #frenchhistory🇫🇷 #placedelarevolution #letthemeatcake #letthemeatcake🎂 #deathmask #deathmasks #tarotillustration #tarotillustrator #uniquetarotdeck https://www.instagram.com/p/CVDkEfqlE48/?utm_medium=tumblr

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13th November 1785, birth of Lady Caroline Lamb, best known as the author of Glenarvon, and for her affair with Lord Byron in 1812, which resulted in her fall and ostracized her from society. After Byron ended the affair, she took her revenge on him by writing the novel in 1816. In the story the character Glenarvon corrupts the innocent young bride Calantha (Caroline herself) leading to their mutual ruin and death. In the book Byron is characterized as the rakish Lord Ruthven, the same name of the character used by John William Polidori in his story ‘The Vampyre’, published anonymously and attributed to Byron in 1819. Polidori, alongside Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and her sister in law Claire Clairemont; were part of the ghost story competition held at the Villa Diodati, during the year without a summer in 1816. Alongside Polidori’s story, Mary Shelley’s story, would be published in 1818 as Frankenstein. Lamb is attributed to the famous epitaph when she described Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." 13th November 1792, birth of Edward John Trelawny, English sailor, traveler, author and friend to Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and writer Mary Shelley, and her half sister Claire Clairmont. Trelawney arranged the funerals for both Percy Shelley in 1822, and Byron’s in 1824. Legend says that as Percy Shelley’s body was being cremated Trelawney reached into the fire and rescued Shelley’s heart before it burned. He then gave it to Mary, who kept it with her for 30 years until it was buried with their sun Percy Florence Shelley in 1889. Outliving all of the Romantic generation he retired to the countryside and wrote Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author in 1878. Continued in comments. #percyshelley #maryshelley #maryshelleysfrankenstein #gothicliterature #gothicliteratureart #vampire #vampires #vampirestyle #lordbyron #gothichistory #ofgraveconcern #tarot #tarotcards #tarotart #tarotartist #tarothistory #johnwilliampolidori #vampireliterature #preraphaelite #18thcentury #19thcentury #illustration #illustrationartists #villadiodati #romanticpoets #history #gothicstyle #ladycarolinelamb #edwardjohntrelawny https://www.instagram.com/p/CHnagpoAUFG/?igshid=1w7klqd0m2zcw

21st January 1677, publication of the first medical pamphlet in North America, published in Boston: ’A brief rule to guide the common people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks, or measels.’ written by Thomas Thacher, appeared on this day during the smallpox epidemic of that year. Boston in 1677 had only been established for 37 years; however smallpox had already become established in Native American populations, who had had no previous contact with the disease, it would kill an estimated 90 percent of North America’s Native peoples, before the end of the 17th century. Even in populations where it was established, smallpox would continue to kill an estimated 400,000 people a year in 18th Century Europe alone. Again in Boston in 1721, the Reverend Cotton Mather, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, would provoke controversy by pushing for a treatment told to him by his African slave Onesimus, who had been inoculated in Africa as a boy. On June 6, 1721, Mather sent reports on inoculation to local physicians, most viewing inoculation as violating the natural laws of medicine. However Boston doctor, and great uncle of future President John Adams, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, did successfully try the procedure on his youngest son and two slaves. In 1798 a smallpox vaccination was successfully demonstrated and proved to be effective by Dr. Edward Jenner, leading to smallpox’s global eradication in 1980. All art shown is influenced by the history of medicine and mortality. You can find all the art plus lots more at the website: www.ofgraveconcern.com/medicineandmortality For More dark art and history follow @ofgrave.concern #thisweekinhistory #gothichistory #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine #smallpox #newenglandhistory #medicalpost #nativeamericans #historyofdisease #epidemic #epidemics #innoculation #ᴠᴀᴄᴄɪɴᴇssᴀᴠᴇʟɪᴠᴇs #vaccination #bostonhistory #cottonmather #medicinemaking #edwardjenner #17thcentury #18thcentury #tarotart #tarotillustration #medicinebottle #medicinebottles #ceramicbottle #ceramicartist #medicineart #medicalart #historicalmedicine #smallpoxhospital https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFF286FMna/?utm_medium=tumblr

For the last two weeks we have investigated what influences drove Mary Shelley to create the work she is best known by. For this week, Part III, we shall look at how the work potentially affected New England folklore, and seeing as this is the last Thursday Tales before Halloween, the macabre themes suitable for this season will be presented before you. The legend begins in New Hampshire in the last decades of the 18th century where our protagonist Thomas Benton was born in Coventry, New Hampshire. Perhaps alluding to the strength of the legend, Coventry is now named Benton. A gifted child, Benton developed a scientific mindset which saw him studying medicine in Heidelberg Germany, under a brilliant, but eccentric and shunned teacher named Stockmeyer. Becoming a mentor to the young Benton, Professor Stockmeyer shares the hidden aspect of his research, an elixir of life, which would eliminate death. In the first potential influence to the story of Frankenstein aligned with that of the folklore of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, Benton is himself very much alike to that of the young Victor Frankenstein, and his mentor and his pursuits, to that of the character of Dr. Waldman; and possible influence to Mary Shelley, Johann Konrad Dippel, (see last week's post: The Real Frankenstein's Part II). A real life alchemist in pursuit of an elixir of life. In 1779, Professor Stockmeyer died leaving Benton, who had become a protege of his teaching, all his medical notes, and scientific apparatus. Completing his medical study, Benton returned to the newly created country of the United States, after a period in London, and set up a medical practice in Boston. (Continued in the comments) #gothichistory #halloween2021 #maryshelley #maryshelleysfrankenstein #frankenstein #frankensteinart #frankensteinartwork #gothicliterature #gothicliteratureart #darktales #historicalillustration #18thcentury #19thcentury #thursdaytales #historymystery #historymysteries #strangehistory #darkhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #darkromantic #darkromanticism #darkscience #folklore #whitemountainsnh #whitemountains #newhampshirefall #paranormal #locallegends #ghostlegend https://www.instagram.com/p/CVlAyfDFzKD/?utm_medium=tumblr