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Entries by Carolyn Vega from 05/2011

John Ruskin's "Great Horse-Controversy"

| Posted 05.09.2011 | New York
Read More: Horses, John Ruskin, John Ruskin Letters, Social Justice, Ruskin Social Commentary, New York News

"Give a horse a nut," says John Ruskin, "and see if he can hold it as a squirrel can." The great English critic was, in the fall of 1857, apparently in the midst of a "great horse-controversy."

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A Nine-Year-Old Cartographer and Historian

| Posted 05.13.2011 | New York
Read More: Assyrian Empire, History, Homework, Education, Cartography, Manuscript, W. B. Sandys, School Work, New York News

Education was something else in the 18th century. W. B. Sandys was just nine years old when he penned a volume titled Ancient Maps and Universal History.

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Charlotte Brontë's Teenage "Catalogue of Books"

| Posted 05.31.2011 | New York
Read More: Bronte Sisters, Letters, Charlotte Bronte Papers, Jane Eyre, Robert Southey, Charlotte Bronte, New York News

Charlotte Brontë was barely a teenager when she began writing in earnest -- at her own count she had written over 20 complete works by the time she was 14.

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