Fanny Forrester Magazine

In this issue: De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (12 February 1878 – 24 November 1959) SUFFRAGETT

Portrait of Joan of Arc by Dewar, 1926, 3 x 4 feet Collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation

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FANNY FORRESTER (A FAVORITE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE)

Before she was twenty, she had contributed poems to their local paper of great literary merit, and attracted the attention of a well-known ladies school in Utica.

In June 1844, under her penname as “Fanny Forrester,” that she wrote for the prestigious “New Mirror” weekly entertainment magazine. The editorial praise she received and her witty stories of village life brought her a wide public audience, and soon other popular magazines were asking for her work.

On June 2, 1846, Emily was 28 and became married to Adoniram Judson. The Baptists believed that the whole missionary cause was being destroyed by the alliance of a founder and the world of fiction.

On July 11, 1846, they left the United States from Boston, with some new missionaries.

The trip took 139 days to reach Burma.

On February 15, 1847, the couple with the two little boys moved to a brick house. Emily quickly named it the “Bat Castle.” The house had just a few tiny “windows” with metal shutters, to protect it from being burned by the natives. The little windows did not have glass either. The ceilings were low and with the many beams, provided ample space for multiplied thousands of bats, which make disturbing noise during the day but at night the noise was unbearable. Their only protection was the mosquito nets at night.

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De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (12 February 1878 – 24 November 1959) ARTIST & SUFFRAGETT

Historical Note from The Glasgow School of Art: De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (1878–1959), metalwork designer, was born on 12 February 1878 in Kandy, Ceylon, the daughter of a tea planter, John Lewthwaite Dewar, and his wife, Amelia Cochran. Her unusual first name had been passed down through several generations in her family, by whom she was known as Kooroovi, the Tamil word for a small bird. She was one of three surviving daughters of the family. From 1891 until 1908 or 1909 she studied part-­‐time at the Glasgow School of Art. Her enamel and metalwork, which included jewelry, clock surrounds, mirror surrounds, plaques, caskets, buttons, and sconces, was frequently illustrated in The Studio. She also painted, engraved, and produced designs for bookplates, calendars, tea-­‐room menus, and cards, as well as costumes for masques. For thirty-­‐eight years Dewar taught design in the metalwork department of the school, during some of that period with Peter Wylie Davidson, in whose Applied Design in the Precious Metals (1929) her Presentation Casket (c.1910; Glasgow Society of Women Artists, on loan to Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries) is illustrated.

She was president of the Society of Lady Artists' Club, whose history she wrote (privately printed, 1950). Her sketchbooks of c.1895–1910 (priv. coll.), letters, and journals provide ‘a rare account of a woman designer of the Glasgow Style era’ (ibid.). Dewar was involved with the women's suffrage movement, for whom she designed bookplates, programmes, and calendars. She compiled files on women artists for the National Council of Women in London providing biographical information and reproductions of works. She did not marry and lived with her sister, Katharine, at 15 Woodside Terrace, Glasgow, until her death there on 24 November 1959.

Some of her decorative metalwork pieces were used for illustration in Applied Design in Precious Metals, a publication by her colleague Peter Wylie Davidson.[5]. Her enamel work was exhibited at the Scottish Section of the Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna in Turin in 1902[6].

Dewar was involved with the women's suffrage movement. She designed a banner in 1911 for use at the coronation of George V in London for a fee of 30 shillings. This banner, stating 'Let Glasgow Flourish' is now held at the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre in Glasgow.[7] [8]

She wrote the History of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artist's Club, published in 1950.[10] While writing this she was the President of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, now known as the Glasgow Society of Women Artists.[2]

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Portrait of Joan of Arc by Dewar. Signed, 1926 Approx 4 x 3 feet Collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation

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A Daughter of Eve

By Christina Rossetti

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-­‐plot I have not kept; Faded and all-­‐forsaken, I weep as I have never wept: Oh it was summer when I slept, It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring And sun-­‐warm'd sweet to-­‐morrow:— Stripp'd bare of hope and everything, No more to laugh, no more to sing, I sit alone with sorrow.

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who w rote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the w ords of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. Wikipedia Born: December 5, 1830, London, United Kingdom Died: December 29, 1894, Torrington Square, London, United Kingdom

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Go, gentle spirit, for thy wish'd-­‐for-­‐rest Thy work was done; thy Savior's will obey'd.

His presence was with thee, in every scene Of duty and of trial; and when He Saw fit that thou should'st leave thy toils and come To Him, 'twas best, 'twas infinitely best, To change the dimmer sphere of earth for heaven.

Fanny Forester

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The WAH Center celebrates Western literary and women of leadership in the Fanny Forrester Literary Magazine. It is a tribute to great women in all walks of life. It features poetry, essays, historical footnotes, short stories and illustration honoring women’s Western heritage thru the ages.

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Princess Elizabeth, future queen Collection Yuko Nii Foundation

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Engraving Collection Yuko Nii Foundation

Boudicca, the Celtic Queen that unleashed fury on the Romans We British are used to women commanders in war; I am descended from mighty men! But I am not fighting for my kingdom and wealth now. I am fighting as an ordinary person for my lost freedom, my bruised body, and my outraged daughters.... Consider how many of you are fighting — and why! Then you will win this battle, or perish. That is what I, a woman, plan to do!— let the men live in slavery if they will.

These are the words of Queen Boudicca, according to ancient historian Tacitus, as she summoned her people to unleash war upon the invading Romans in Britain. Boudicca, sometimes written Boadicea, was queen of the Iceni tribe, a Celtic clan which united a number of British tribes in revolt against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in 60-61 AD. While she famously succeeded in defeating the Romans in three great battles, their victories would not last. The Romans rallied and eventually crushed the revolts, executing thousands of Iceni and taking the rest as slaves. Boudicca’s name has been remembered through history as the courageous

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On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer. On 9 September 1862 Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Palace of Laeken, the home of his greatuncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.[14] A few months later, Alexandra travelled from Denmark to Britain aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert II and arrived in Gravesend, Kent, on 7 March 1863.[15] Sir Arthur Sullivan composed music for her arrival and Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote an ode in Alexandra's honour.

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—A Welcome to Alexandra, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sea King's daughter from over the sea, Alexandra!

Saxon and Norman and Dane are w e, But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee, Alexandra!

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I Live I Die I Burn I Drown I live, I die, I burn, I d rown I endure at once chill and cold Life is at once too soft and too hard I have sore troubles mingled with joys

Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry And in pleasure many a grief endure My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged All at once I dry up and grow green

Thus I suffer love's inconstancies And when I think the pain is most intense Without thinking, it is gone again.

Then w hen I feel my joys certain And my hour of greatest delight arrived I find my pain beginning all over once again.

by Delmira Agustini

Birth: Death:

Oct. 24, 1886 Jul. 6, 1914

Poet. A major Latin American author of the early 20th Century. Her verse expressed intense erotic yearning with bold, dense imagery.

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Love and Friendship Love is like the w ild rose-­‐briar, Friendship like the holly-­‐tree – The holly is dark w hen the rose-­‐briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild-­‐rose briar is sweet in the spring, Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet w ait till w inter comes again And who will call the wild-­‐briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-­‐wreath now And deck thee w ith the holly's sheen, That w hen December blights thy brow He may still leave thy garland green.

by Emily Bronte

Emily Jane Brontë w as an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, W uthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Wikipedia Born: July 30, 1818, Thornton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Died: December 19, 1848, Haworth, United Kingdom

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