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Posted on October 12, 2021
Ariana Malthaner One of the most challenging aspects of transcription is a hand that is mostly readable, but with a few key words indistinguishable. There is hardly anything more frustrating […]
Posted on October 5, 2021
Ariana Malthaner The final of Isabella’s inclusions from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a haunting passage about the ocean, and Biblical creation. The selections from Canto IV that Isabella opted to […]
Posted on September 21, 2021
Ariana Malthaner Isabella’s next two stanzas from Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage concern a Gothic Gladiator and his battle at the coliseum. The only particular thing of note is that in […]
Posted on September 7, 2021
Ariana Malthaner Continuing with Isabella’s interest in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, we have another two stanzas from Canto IV, these two discussing the destruction of Rome and its notable buildings: the […]
Posted on August 24, 2021
Ariana Malthaner Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a four part poem detailing the adventures of Harold throughout Europe. Isabella Woods appears to have had a particular affinity for this […]
Posted on August 17, 2021
Ariana Malthaner This week’s transcription is another lovely original poem dedicated to Isabella, this from an MLM. This particular poem requests that whenever Isabella reread it, that she be reminded […]
Posted on August 10, 2021
Ariana Malthaner There is no other poet loved as dearly by Isabella as Byron. She has dedicated numerous pages to his poetry, most of which are faithful representations of the […]
Posted on July 27, 2021
Ariana Malthaner Unlike Isabella herself, who always attributes authorship to the poems she collects, this particular poem has gone unattributed by the author. This poem is written by an E.M.M […]
Posted on July 20, 2021
Ariana Malthaner One of the great challenges of transcription is that many sources are difficult to read. While in some cases this challenge can be overcome by revisiting a text […]
