Photograph: 1913 family picnic, colour

Life in the Long Nineteenth Century

Photograph #1

1913: The family of Mervyn O’Gorman, an enthusiastic amateur photographer. A picnic in Dorset, England. Early colour Autochrome Lumière. The long exposure time required may explain the slightly bored looks.

For context the following were published in 1913:

Fiction

• Arnold Bennett – The Regent
• Algernon Blackwood – A Prisoner in Fairyland
• Edgar Rice Burroughs – The Return of Tarzan
• Arthur Conan Doyle – The Poison Belt [See book review on this blog]
• Henry James – A Small Boy and Others
• Annie Fellows Johnston – Miss Santa Clause of the Pullman
• Mary Johnston – Hagar
• D. H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
• Jack London
  • The Valley of the Moon
  • The Abysmal Brute
• Compton Mackenzie – Sinister Street, vol. 1
• Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Golden Road
• Baroness Orczy – Eldorado
• Marcel Proust – Swann’s Way
• Saki – When William Came
• Edith Wharton – The Custom of the Country
• P. G. Wodehouse – The Little Nugget
• Leonard Woolf – The Village in the Jungle

Children/young people

• L. Frank Baum
  • The Patchwork Girl of Oz
  • Little Wizard Stories of Oz
  • Aunt Jane’s Nieces on the Ranch (as Edith Van Dyne)
• E. Nesbit – Wet Magic
• Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Pigling Bland

Poetry

• Robert Frost – A Boy’s Will
• Siegfried Sassoon – The Daffodil Murderer
• Georg Trakl – Gedichte (“Poems”)

Non-fiction

• Guillaume Apollinaire – The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques)
• Sigmund Freud – Totem und Tabu
• Holbrook Jackson – The Eighteen Nineties
• Rosa Luxemburg – Die Akkumulation des Kapitals (The Accumulation of Capital, 1951)
• Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell – Principia Mathematica (completed)