• Author Frances Hodgson Burnett Book Index

    Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). (via Wikipedia) Info The Secret Garden is one of my favorite books, and while I’ve read some of FHB’s other kids books (The Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy) I never knew she wrote so many other books– and most of them for adults! This is a bibliography of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s major works, including novels, novellas (or “novelettes”), and short story collections. I…

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    Poem: THE MAGIC (1903)

    You who saw through my disguise Though I came so poor,Let me bless your true two eyes And your open door.Yes, I am a wonder-child; Hark and tell it not.—With the journey and the cold I had half forgot.Take the charmèd seeds I lay In your open hand:Some would cast them all away, You will understand.Trust the bud to come to flower, Trust the flower for fruit.Listen in the winter-timeFor a cricket lute.Here are blessings all from me —Though they look like tears—For your blessed eyes that see And your heart that hears.I am higher than I seem, Fair as…

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    3 Fairy Poems by Rose Fyleman

    These poems come from the book The Fairy Flute by Rose Fyleman, originally published in 1921. It’s a collection of children’s poems about fairies; I picked these three specifically to share because I like the interaction between the real world and the fantasy world the fairies come from. The featured post image is “The Fairy Queen takes an airy drive in a light carriage, a twelve-in-hand, drawn by thoroughbred butterflies,” from the book In fairy-land (1875). 👉 All posts about fairy tales / All children’s stuff posts / More poetry / More literature IN BOND STREET Upon her little velvet…

  • Lima Bean Soup Recipe from 1898

    This soup recipe comes from The Enterprising Housekeeper (1898), which is a collection of recipes put together by Helen Louise Johnson and published by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania. Inside you’ll find adverts for products the company made mixed with the recipes, and some of them have great images that I’ll no doubt end up sharing here later on. According to the preface for the soup chapter, soups with heartier ingredients like beans can be used for a main dish (if it’s a lighter soup or broth, it should be used as a starter instead). 👉 All Recipes /…

  • 11 Old-Fashioned Wooden Animal Toy Patterns from 1922

    This is a collection of patterns (or wood-making plans) for making old-fashioned wooden children’s toys, specifically ones that are shaped like animals! They come from Baxter, Leon H. Baxter’s Toy Craft, originally published in 1922. The book is meant to for kids to be able to make the toys themselves, so it should be fairly easy for beginner toy makers. I’ve included images of the toys, plus some tips for enlarging them to be the proper size. All of that came from the book itself, so be sure to head to the source if you want any info I missed…

  • Baked Salmon and Potatoes Casserole Recipe from 1907

    This recipe comes from Mrs. G. B. Richmond and was published in Crumbs From Everybody’s Table (see: OFF Library), a community cookbook published in 1907 by the Ladies’ of St. Paul’s Guild in Salinas, California. Unlike many vintage recipes I find, this one looks easy enough that even I could make it! 👉 More Dinner Recipes / All Recipes / More from Crumbs from Everybody’s Table (1907) Original Recipe BAKED SALMON AND POTATOES. Put a layer of mashed potatoes in baking dish, then one of cooked fish; grate over the top crackers enough to cover, and pour over a sauce…

  • The Wizard of Oz Book Series Index

    The Wizard of Oz book universe is a larger thing than you may know! There’s the original books written by L. Frank Baum, then there’s the spinoffs and sibling books, and THEN there’s the rest of the “official Oz” books written by authors approved by the publisher after Baum’s death in the 1920s. If you’ve only every heard of the original book (and maybe a few others), you may be surprised at how many books are actually out there! This post is an index of all the official Oz books, which include the “Famous Forty” official books, as well as…

  • The Langs’ Colored Fairy Books Index

    The Fairy Books are 25 volumes of collected fairy tale stories from around the world, translated and compiled by Leonora Blanche Lang and edited by her husband, Andrew Lang, in the late 1800s to early 1910s. You can read more about the history of the books and their creation on Wikipedia! This post is specifically an index for the books in the “Colored Fairy Books” collection, which is 12 volumes. I’ve also put together an index of the contents of each of the Colored Fairy Books, so you can CTRL-F to find a specific story and see which volume it’s…

  • 26 Wizard of Oz Illustrations by W.W. Denslow (1900) – Full Color Pages

    These were collected from the digitized version of the 1900 edition of The Wizard of Oz on the Library of Congress website. In that edition, all the illustrations were done by W.W. Denslow— you’ll probably recognize them because they’re used heavily in Oz products! As for this post: I downloaded each image individually, lightly edited them (keeping the vintage aged paper look), then re-uploaded them here! All these illustrations are in the public domain, so you can use them for personal or commercial things. If you do use them, it’d be nice to credit the original artist, W.W. Denslow. I…

  • Tea Party Cakes Recipe from 1913

    Another recipe from the amazing Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913), a collection of recipes from high end Edwardian era chefs. This tea party cakes recipe is from Frank Bock, pastry chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. 👉 More Desserts / All Recipes / More from Ultra Select Dishes for Afternoon Teas (1913) Original Recipe Take one pound of the ready dough and work another two ounces of butter well into it. Let prove and scale off in half pound pieces; divide these pieces again in twelve equal parts; mold them round and let raise a…