In real life Adela died aged just 52 in March 1892 from complications associated with diabetes, while her husband Henry William Williamson died two years later when he accidentally fell through a trapdoor while surveying a building in Newcastle – someone had opened it when he was in another room and he fell through on returning. Adela is buried in Sutton Cemetery (as is HW's sister Doris). Henry William was probably not the bounder that William Leaver considered him to be, as his daughter Maude wrote in one letter about how happy they had all been at home. Manually pressurized lanterns using white gas (also marketed as Coleman fuel or "Camp Fuel") are manufactured by the Coleman Company in one and two-mantle models. Some models are dual fuel and can also use gasoline. These are being supplanted by a battery-powered fluorescent lamp and LED models, which are safer in the hands of young people and inside tents. Liquid fuel lanterns remain popular where the fuel is easily obtained and in common use.

Public spaces became increasingly lit with lanterns in the 1500s, [22] especially following the invention of lanterns with glass windows, which greatly improved the quantity of light. In 1588 the Parisian Parlement decreed that a torch be installed and lit at each intersection, and in 1594 the police changed this to lanterns. [23] Beginning in 1667 during the reign of King Louis XIV, thousands of street lights were installed in Parisian streets and intersections. [24] Under this system, streets were lit with lanterns suspended 20 yards (18m) apart on a cord over the middle of the street at a height of 20 feet (6.1m); as an English visitor enthused in 1698, 'The streets are lit all winter and even during the full moon!' [25] In London, public street lighting was implemented around the end of the 17th century; a diarist wrote in 1712 that ‘All the way, quite through Hyde Park to the Queen's Palace at Kensington, lanterns were placed for illuminating the roads on dark nights.’ [26] Modern lanterns [ edit ] Fueled lanterns [ edit ] In a writing career of some 25 years Mr. Williamson has tried his hand at a great variety of work, with no less varying degrees of success. The world in which he was brought up fell in ruins in the 1914-18 war and he appeared on the literary scene as the sensitive and rebellious young man in whom a feeling for beauty and a bad temper were inextricably mixed. . . . It is a pity that he should have chosen such a [slow] framework [as the present book] because he is still at his best when writing of nature.darklantern , #historicalfiction , #policelantern , #bullseyelantern , #victorian , #detectivethriller , #mystery https://darklanterntales.wordpress.com/the-joe-phenix-detective-series/ Gilded Age Detective Stories La trama ruota intorno ad una casa, come da titolo, e ai segreti di chi in essa ci vive. Ogni personaggio nasconde delle ansie e nessuno di loro sembra sentirsi al sicuro in quelle mura come fossero estranei. Robert Bentley e la moglie Mina, dalla Francia sbarcano in Inghilterra in quella casa per assistere la madre morente dell'uomo, e qui i loro destini insieme a quelli della cameriera Jane, si incastreranno. Mina sembra innervorsi all'improvviso da quando è Inghilterra e i sospetti annebbieranno ogni cosa.

Mi dispiace parlare con poco entusiasmo di un libro, ma voglio spiegare il perché di un voto così basso. a b "lantern". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Mina continues to lose it, and casts Jane out. This is actually pretty funny to me because she is her own downfall. If she'd seen Jane talking to Flyte and figured it was a mistake, or hadn't even seen Jane talking at all, she wouldn't have cast her out. Teddy would have come, would have brought her the letters, Popham would have no hold over her, and whilst she would need to find where the Flyte documents had gone to, she would not have to flee her household. Instead, Teddy arrives, finds out that Jane has been cast out, and goes frantically looking for her. Leaving Mina to Popham, who drags her to a brothel and nearly rapes her but for Flyte's intervention, who dangles her over a river asking where his money is before casting her in when her answer is unsatisfactory.Extremely atmospheric–reminded me of Sarah Water’s Fingersmith—yet the period detail does not obscure the narrative tension. I loved the various story lines of upstairs and downstairs life, and the waythe twists and turns of the plot were interwoven to keep me guessing–and reading.”