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Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, Night Before Christmas business &c.
The fairy tale “roses and pearls” in Melville’s “Hawthorne and His Mosses” would seem to be the younger daughter’s in “Diamonds and Toads.” She’s the good one alright! Flowers and gems magically drop from her mouth after she gives water to a fairy in disguise. Here talking to her astonished mother
January 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The fairy tale “roses and pearls” in Melville’s “Hawthorne and His Mosses” would seem to be the younger daughter’s in “Diamonds and Toads.” She’s the good one alright! Flowers and gems magically drop from her mouth after she gives water to a fairy in disguise. Here talking to her astonished mother
Found more stuff deleted in revision of the December 1851 installment of "Scenes Beyond the Western Border." For example, "brave man" which occurs 4x in MOBY-DICK, only just published. Home-feelings, philosophy, and the magic of feminine logic on and off the prairie open.substack.com/pub/melvilli...
Home-feelings, philosophy, and the magic of feminine logic on and off the prairie
DRAGOONED: Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853) Number 5.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Found more stuff deleted in revision of the December 1851 installment of "Scenes Beyond the Western Border." For example, "brave man" which occurs 4x in MOBY-DICK, only just published. Home-feelings, philosophy, and the magic of feminine logic on and off the prairie open.substack.com/pub/melvilli...
"Without knowing it herself, my wife was a female Democritus." #MelvilleMonday
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Without knowing it herself, my wife was a female Democritus." #MelvilleMonday
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
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Nearly a thousand pages long, Jay Leyda's The Melville Log may be the longest biography never written. Never written in that Leyda assembles an enormous set of evidence of Herman Melville's life and work—but leaves it to us, the reader, to create the narrative from it.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nearly a thousand pages long, Jay Leyda's The Melville Log may be the longest biography never written. Never written in that Leyda assembles an enormous set of evidence of Herman Melville's life and work—but leaves it to us, the reader, to create the narrative from it.
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Carefully researched and beautifully presented bio of Clement C. Moore, by Bill Moore. My Moore Family in America - Part 4 open.substack.com/pub/billmoor...
My Moore Family in America - Part 4
Clement Clarke Moore (1779 - 1863)
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November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Carefully researched and beautifully presented bio of Clement C. Moore, by Bill Moore. My Moore Family in America - Part 4 open.substack.com/pub/billmoor...
This nice review of MOBY-DICK was only excerpted by Gary Scharnhorst in Melville Society EXTRACTS 75 (Nov. 1988). Full text is freely accessible on Melvilliana, transcribed from the Boston MORNING JOURNAL of November 18, 1851. Hey, this day 174 years ago! melvilliana.blogspot.com/2020/02/moby...
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This nice review of MOBY-DICK was only excerpted by Gary Scharnhorst in Melville Society EXTRACTS 75 (Nov. 1988). Full text is freely accessible on Melvilliana, transcribed from the Boston MORNING JOURNAL of November 18, 1851. Hey, this day 174 years ago! melvilliana.blogspot.com/2020/02/moby...
Quotes Melville's impression in REDBURN of the chained figures on the Nelson monument in Liverpool: "... I never could look at their swarthy limbs and manacles, without being involuntarily reminded of four African slaves in the market-place." No Illusions www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Quotes Melville's impression in REDBURN of the chained figures on the Nelson monument in Liverpool: "... I never could look at their swarthy limbs and manacles, without being involuntarily reminded of four African slaves in the market-place." No Illusions www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Melville's "Dilletante" reader of Dante in PIERRE melvilliana.blogspot.com/2025/10/melv...
Melville's "Dilletante" reader of Dante in PIERRE
Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and 19th century American literature.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Melville's "Dilletante" reader of Dante in PIERRE melvilliana.blogspot.com/2025/10/melv...
Updated with an odd allusion in the same Canadian paper to "the firm of Bartleby, Benito Cereno." It's from a July 1856 notice of the Schoolfellow, a children's magazine. Evidently referencing Dix, Edwards & Co. as new publishers of the Schoolfellow and Putnam's, as well as Melville's Piazza Tales.
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Updated with an odd allusion in the same Canadian paper to "the firm of Bartleby, Benito Cereno." It's from a July 1856 notice of the Schoolfellow, a children's magazine. Evidently referencing Dix, Edwards & Co. as new publishers of the Schoolfellow and Putnam's, as well as Melville's Piazza Tales.
"...one and all, they started from their reveries, and for the space of some moments stood, or sat, or leaned all transfixedly listening, like the carved Roman slave." MOBY-DICK ch. 126 #MelvilleMonday
L'Arrotino, the knife-sharpener. Aka "The Listening Slave." Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
L'Arrotino, the knife-sharpener. Aka "The Listening Slave." Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
October 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"...one and all, they started from their reveries, and for the space of some moments stood, or sat, or leaned all transfixedly listening, like the carved Roman slave." MOBY-DICK ch. 126 #MelvilleMonday
L'Arrotino, the knife-sharpener. Aka "The Listening Slave." Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
L'Arrotino, the knife-sharpener. Aka "The Listening Slave." Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Noticed in Nova Scotia, Melville's PIAZZA TALES melvilliana.blogspot.com/2025/10/noti...
Noticed in Nova Scotia, Melville's PIAZZA TALES
Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and 19th century American literature.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Noticed in Nova Scotia, Melville's PIAZZA TALES melvilliana.blogspot.com/2025/10/noti...
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New in Leviathan:
Yukiko Oshima follows the "Indian trail" of the enigmatic character Isabel, from Melville's Pierre, noting the many clues Melville offers that Isabel's lost maternal lineage has Mohawk origins
Read free on Project MUSE thru 31 October
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Yukiko Oshima follows the "Indian trail" of the enigmatic character Isabel, from Melville's Pierre, noting the many clues Melville offers that Isabel's lost maternal lineage has Mohawk origins
Read free on Project MUSE thru 31 October
tinyurl.com/57ejbyp4
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New in Leviathan:
Yukiko Oshima follows the "Indian trail" of the enigmatic character Isabel, from Melville's Pierre, noting the many clues Melville offers that Isabel's lost maternal lineage has Mohawk origins
Read free on Project MUSE thru 31 October
tinyurl.com/57ejbyp4
Yukiko Oshima follows the "Indian trail" of the enigmatic character Isabel, from Melville's Pierre, noting the many clues Melville offers that Isabel's lost maternal lineage has Mohawk origins
Read free on Project MUSE thru 31 October
tinyurl.com/57ejbyp4
As a sailor might say
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As a sailor might say
DRAGOONED: Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853). No. 3.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As a sailor might say
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