"Queen Christina and De Liar" (1890) a poem by Edgar Fawcett. A (fictional?) episode about Sweden's strong willed monarch and a French envoy.https://t.co/ry2E7FWwJE pic.twitter.com/SfnWuZaJJq

— Stephen Davies (@Gaslight_arts) May 21, 2023

"A magnetic man" (1889), by Edward S Van Zile, proposes that personal magnetism can be calculated and its power harnessed.

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— Stephen Davies (@Gaslight_arts) May 22, 2023

our earliest story yet!!!

"The knife" (1833) by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

A bloody crime in the English countryside is investigated.

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— Stephen Davies (@Gaslight_arts) May 23, 2023

In "The love sonnets of a hoodlum" (1902), Wallace Irwin humourously shows the tender love pangs of a street fighter.

Irwin was praised for the accuracy of his sonnet format.

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— Stephen Davies (@Gaslight_arts) May 27, 2023

"The man in the black sheet" (1892) by Max Pemberton

Local man tangles with escapee.

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— Stephen Davies (@Gaslight_arts) June 10, 2023

Three stories by Mary A Lowell, a stalwart of the Ballou magazines, between 1856~66

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— Stephen Davies (@Gaslight_arts) June 10, 2023

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