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Time: 7:11 PM – 11:18 PM Location: The Red Room, Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Attendees: Book Discussed: The Sound of Almost Nothing: A Cultural History of Silent Musical Instruments, 1680–1900 by Alastair Pencombe (Ash & Fret Press, 2025; clothbound, unjacketed, with fold-out diagrams of mute mechanisms and marginalia reproduced from private collections). 1. Opening Remarks Molyneux … Read more
A Lighthearted Novel And A Fashionable Frenzy In the spring of 1543, Pimlico Wilde published one of the more curious successes of Tudor literature: The Frolic of the Red-Bearded Foxes, a humorous novel recounting the misadventures of England’s earliest fox hunters,who, according to author Edmund Lamplugh, were “no more competent than a sack of turnips … Read more
An estimated Account of the Most Inadvisable Novel of 1458 In the year 1458, Pimlico Wilde published a novel that sent shockwaves through the royal court: The Chancellor’s Wig, or The Scandalous Chronicle of a Very Important Man’s Very Silly Hair. Though written as harmless satire, the book nearly led to charges of sedition, several … Read more
Year: c. 892 Length: 47 pages This short but sternly instructive volume, believed to have been written shortly after the famous incident in which Alfred, distracted by matters of state, allowed a peasant woman’s cakes to scorch, lays out the king’s uncompromising rules for achieving a morally upright cake. Alfred devotes an entire chapter to … Read more