{"id":294,"date":"2024-11-29T23:45:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T23:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athaeneum\/?p=294"},"modified":"2024-11-30T00:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T00:13:32","slug":"richard-carvel-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/richard-carvel-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Carvel (1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-309\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-100-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-309 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Richard Carvel\" data-height=\"700\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_309\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_309\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-311 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2024-11-29 23:55:10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Richard-Carvell-scaled.jpg\" class=\"slider-309 slide-311 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"Richard Carvell\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 75%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Richard-Carvell-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Richard-Carvell-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Richard-Carvell-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Richard-Carvell-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Richard-Carvell-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Title: Richard Carvel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Author: Winston Churchill<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Publisher: Hurst &amp; Co.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Estimated year of printing: 1912<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright 1899&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References many publications, latest is March 1912.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the first \u201cold book\u201d I acquired.&nbsp; I was drawn to the fact it <em>looked<\/em> old \u2014 the cover is not in very good condition although otherwise it\u2019s fairly good.&nbsp; I was also intrigued by the author \u2014 Winston Churchill.&nbsp; Nowadays, we associate that name with Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, but this is a different Winston Churchill.&nbsp; This one is an author who lived from 1871 until 1947.&nbsp; Initially, the author Winston Churchill was much better known than the British statesman, and they actually communicated with each other in order to try and reduce confusion amongst readers \u2014 agreeing that the British Churchill should use the pen name \u201cWinston Spencer Churchill.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book, <em>Richard Carvel<\/em>, was an extremely popular novel, Churchill\u2019s most successful.&nbsp; It\u2019s a historical fiction set during the Revolutionary War, and sold around 2 million copies.&nbsp; It was adapted into a Broadway play which ran from 1900 &#8211; 1901.&nbsp; Waltzes from the play were published a sheet music under the title \u201cRichard Carvel Waltzes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historical context:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When this book was published in 1912, it was the same year that the Titanic sank, and would be 2 more years before World War 1 would begin. New Mexico and Arizona became states in this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes: Copyright 1899&nbsp; References many publications, latest is March 1912. This was the first \u201cold book\u201d I acquired.&nbsp; I was drawn to the fact it looked old \u2014 the cover is not in very good condition although otherwise it\u2019s fairly good.&nbsp; I was also intrigued by the author \u2014 Winston Churchill.&nbsp; Nowadays, we associate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}