Jimothy Rabbit

Bookstores are an important staple of our community here in Minnesota. Much love to all of our local bookstores as we weather this ICE storm.
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I'm overwhelmed...would be an understatement. I truly appreciate all the words and actions of support people have shown. DreamHaven is a small operation; we're closed on Sundays (I rest sometimes) and our website is not used to handling so many orders. We'll be back in the store on Monday morning and we'll be happy to sort out everyone's orders, questions and comments then. Until then, I'm resting up a bit and calming myself down from my anger and sadness. Be well and safe everyone.

✒TODAY'S AUTHOR SNAPSHOT:

Katharine Tynan
(January 23, 1859 – April 2, 1931)

Katharine Tynan was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry.

She usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof.

Tynan was born into a small farming family in County Dublin and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in Drogheda. Her poetry was first published in 1875.

Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary circles, until she married and moved to England.

Tynan was also later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge. She is said to have written over 100 novels. She also wrote five autobiographical volumes. Tynans contributed to many periodicals and magazines as well.

She wrote in several genres, including the supernatural, as many authors did at that time. She is most well known for her poetry and romance novels.

📖"Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts."

- Katherine Tynan

📖FEATURED BOOK:

Peep at Many Lands
Tynan, 1911

Katharine Tynan paints a beautifully realistic picture of turn-of-the-century Ireland.

Excerpt: "It may safely be said that any boy or girl who takes a peep at Ireland will want another peep. Between London and Ireland, so far as atmosphere and the feeling of things is concerned, there is a world of distance. Of course, it is the difference between two races, for the Irish are mainly Celtic, and the Celtic way of thinking and speaking and feeling is as different as possible from the Saxon or the Teuton, and the Celt has influenced the Anglo-Irish till they are as far away from the English nearly as the Celts themselves. If you are at all alert, you will begin to find the difference as soon as you step off the London and North Western train at Holyhead and go on board the steamer for Kingstown.

The Irish steward and stewardess will have a very different way from the formal English way. They will be expansive. They will use ten words to one of the English official. Their speech will be picturesque; and if you are gifted with a sense of humour—and if you are not, you had better try to beg, borrow or steal it before you go to Ireland—there will be much to delight you."

⭐TIDBITS:

☆Katherine Tynan's books include illustrations from: Arthur Rackham, G. Demain Hammond, E. A. Cubitt, Lyndsay Symington, C. M. Watts and John Campbell.

☆Tynan was a close associate of and regular correspondent with William Butler Yeats (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected).

☆The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.

[wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Tynan]

The stories that endure are the ones we keep alive. Listen to each other's stories.

The Yellow Wall Paper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"A short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction."

"Born on July 3rd, 1860, she was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame."

[en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman]
[en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper]

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Free to read print version:

en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wall_Paper

Free audio version:

youtu.be/rctnjeDBFcY?si=gA8WyBfYPo4DnxR6