Talk:Gift book

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Did you know... that many gift books, decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as Dickens, Wordsworth and Poe?

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Why has literary annual been merged with gift book? They are not the same literary form. Much recent scholarship on this fact, as noted below.

Sources

Recent sources:

Harris, Katherine D. Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual 1823-1835. Ohio University Press, 2015. Kooistra, Lorraine. Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855-1875 . Ohio University Press, 2011.

Here are some sources I came across in my reading about Mary Shelley that might help you out:

Renier, Anne. Friendship's Offering. London: Private Libraries Association, 1964.
Jamieson, Eleanore. English Embossed Bindings 1825-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
Manning, Peter. "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829". Literature in the Marketplace. Eds. John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hoagwood, Terence and Ledbetter, Kathryn. "L.E.L.'s Verses and the Keepsake for 1829". Romantic Circles
Sussman, Charlotte. "Stories for the Keepsake". The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Ed. Esther Schor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

I hope these are helpful. Awadewit (talk) 18:11, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Check also more recent articles by Katherine D. Harris, Margaret Linley, Kitty Ledbetter, Paula Feldman, Terence Hoagwood.
See also the wiki entry for literary annual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.65.108.218 (talk) 03:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Organization

The introduction of this article gives examples and history of the gift book but does not define what a gift book is. I read the first few sentences of this article and still didn't know what a gift book was. Conversely, a gift book is defined in the Editors section even though the definition has nothing to do with editors. I am going to move a statement or two to make this flow more logically. Somebody let me know if they approve upon reading my updates. Thanks.MorbidAnatomy (talk) 00:32, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not all gift books are literary annuals. This article doesn't touch upon the massive amount of research done recently. I'll add information on the definition of a literary annual in its own entry. (Thanks -- Katherine D. Harris) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.65.108.218 (talk) 03:34, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't jump on starting a new article just yet. Maybe it would help if you weren't so vague - what is this article missing, for example? Keep in mind the article is very young and didn't exist about a year ago so there's plenty of room for growth. I'm sure you're also aware of all our Wikipolicies, including conflict of interest? --Midnightdreary (talk) 03:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Much of this article is cited from an article that plagiarized from my dissertation and article (published in 2005). I contacted the FSU library about this; the article has now been removed from the FSU website. Since my original comment above in 2011, nothing has been fixed in terms of the difference between gift books and literary annuals. In fact, literary annual re-directs to gift book. As an expert on this topic, am I not allowed to correct this due to Wikipedia conflict of interest policy? Or will it remain a piece of plagiarism and misinformation? Katherine D. Harris 22:56, 8 April 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kdharris (talk • contribs)

Parody-s

As with any fad, parody's follow...Here are two of the four parody's published in the "Illustrated London News". 1842, vol. 1, page 521. In regards to "The Book of Beauty" parody, the origional poem (from the Heath's Book of Beauty or the American Book of Beauty, I only have PART of the origional..).

Parody:

Parady: The book of beauty.
My pretty blue belle - I am going to tell
of the beautiful book which you edit so well,
with your own sweet face on the frontispiece dear,
and you pen in your mouth, love, instead of your ear!
who would not be a goose now-to have such a quill
for your red lips to hold so remarkable still;
with ink like your spirit - uncommonly blue,
and a feather to fly with - though not, love from you!
your eyes shed such light on your beautiful phiz,
that at last your wise owl has a twinkle in his ;
your're a Queen-fair advised by the sagest of sages,
with a book in whose prison you shut up your pages.
most sublime in your looks-lady editor-when
you are having resort like a sheep-to your pen
and your book may be grand-but in you I behold
the true Book of Beauty that I long to fold.

The book of beauty (partial poem, rest is missing)
My own blue-belle!
My pretty blue-belle!
Don't fear that your secrets I'm going to tell;
My wings you view,
of your own bright hue,
And oh! never doubt that my heart's "true-blue"

Parody 2: FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING. (Origional poem unknown, from 1841 or 1842 issue.)
I give you all- I can no more
Though poor the "Offering be"
Yet 'tis worth millions, if you judge
by what it has cost me!

My wife - ah yes - I part with her
As friendship's sweet reward,
I've got her in a line to go
Upon her own ac-cord!-
and that half-crown you're pulling out
Still leaves me, Bill, no pull-
I'm letting a whole tigress go
For only half-a-bull!
Farewell, and of your bargin, boy,
Long live you to be proud,
You've only given half-a-bull
to have your spirit cowed!

NormBograham (talk) 15:32, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by NormBograham (talk • contribs) 20:03, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Gift

This book, edited by Eliza Leslie, probably should have an article. But what to call it? That's kind of a good question. Maybe The Gift (gift book) or The Gift (Eliza Leslie). Part of the problem is a lot of books had this title, as the disambiguation page shows. Rather than just go with a redlink, I linked to Eliza Leslie for now. i don't know enough about the book to start an article. Rifter0x0000 (talk) 15:37, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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