Jonathan Potter

@drjonpotter.bsky.social

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Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online. Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6

Text from the Guardian: More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.

"This boy," he said, "is an inmate artist. This sketch is really beautiful, defective and devoid of art though it is."

A magazine advertisement that says "Please & Lubin, new scents for the festivities. Stolen Kisses when did'st thou steal thy sweets that smell if not from my love's breath? - Bard of Avon. Also, the sequel to Stolen Kisses, Box-His-Ears, That's for Remembrance! - Shakespeare. 2, New Bond Street." There is additional information about the company.

Text reads: "Their honeymoon took the form of a demanding two-week tour of cathedrals, monuments, museums, gravel-pits, and commercial offices stretching from Colchester to Scarborough."

The book cover for "Homes and Haunts" by Alison Booth

Photograph of printed poem from the Family Herald.