Post by Todd on Apr 20, 2017 8:03:57 GMT -5
The MPC Social Media has been posting examples of the sorts of articles you can expect in the upcoming issue of Curios and Conundrums. They are preserved here for posterity. (Originally posted on 4/13/2017)
~~ The following was written exclusively to share on Facebook as an example of the sorts of articles one might find in Curios and Conundrums, our subscription box for the literarily deranged. We thank the Editor for their generosity. ~~
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
In 1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman published “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a tale of a woman who goes mad as the result of treatment for nervous depression. The story is a fictionalization of Gilman’s real treatment by Silas Weir Mitchell, who advanced the “rest cure” treatment for “hysterical” women. As the narrator explains, the treatment involves “phosphates or phosphites which ever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to ‘work’ until I am well again.” Rather than getting well, the narrator falls deeper and deeper into hallucinogenic delirium, believing there is a woman living in the wallpaper of her room.
As it happens, Silas Weir Mitchell’s 21st-century descendant, also named Silas Weir Mitchell, is a television actor. This Mitchell plays a werewolf-like creature called a Wesson who fights supernatural foes with his friend who happens to come from a long line of monster-hunters called Grimms. These people are fictional descendants of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, the real-world collectors and editors of Europe’s most famous fairy tales.
We can neither confirm nor deny that the Wessons, the Grimms, or the woman who escaped from Gilman’s wallpaper are currently working in the Curios & Conundrum’s Victorian London office.
~~ The following was written exclusively to share on Facebook as an example of the sorts of articles one might find in Curios and Conundrums, our subscription box for the literarily deranged. We thank the Editor for their generosity. ~~
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
In 1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman published “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a tale of a woman who goes mad as the result of treatment for nervous depression. The story is a fictionalization of Gilman’s real treatment by Silas Weir Mitchell, who advanced the “rest cure” treatment for “hysterical” women. As the narrator explains, the treatment involves “phosphates or phosphites which ever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to ‘work’ until I am well again.” Rather than getting well, the narrator falls deeper and deeper into hallucinogenic delirium, believing there is a woman living in the wallpaper of her room.
As it happens, Silas Weir Mitchell’s 21st-century descendant, also named Silas Weir Mitchell, is a television actor. This Mitchell plays a werewolf-like creature called a Wesson who fights supernatural foes with his friend who happens to come from a long line of monster-hunters called Grimms. These people are fictional descendants of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, the real-world collectors and editors of Europe’s most famous fairy tales.
We can neither confirm nor deny that the Wessons, the Grimms, or the woman who escaped from Gilman’s wallpaper are currently working in the Curios & Conundrum’s Victorian London office.
