{"id":13117,"date":"2014-09-13T07:07:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T04:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13117"},"modified":"2014-09-13T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T04:07:52","slug":"while-benefit-street-was-young-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/09\/13\/while-benefit-street-was-young-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"While Benefit street was young (1943)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very nicely designed and illustrated 1943 booklet, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.$b542003;view=2up;seq=8\">While Benefit street was young<\/a><\/em> by Margaret Bingham Stillwell (1887-1984).  A short but vivid first-hand childhood account of a street and area that Lovecraft knew well, around the turn of the century. Written by an academic who was, back then, a slightly older youth than Lovecraft was (circa age 14-ish, to his 11-ish?). Sadly there&#8217;s no Kindle or OCR version, but it can be freely read online at HathiTrust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/benefit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/benefit.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"benefit\" width=\"529\" height=\"774\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/Administration\/News_Bureau\/Databases\/Encyclopedia\/search.php?serial=S0430\">Encyclopedia Brunoniana<\/a><\/em> states that the booklet was&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>intended to defend the street of her childhood from a reputation of sordidness and disrepair suggested by David DeJong\u2019s [David Cornel De Jong] novel, <em>Benefit Street<\/em>. &#8230; She continued her campaign with the publication in 1945 of <em>The Pageant of Benefit Street<\/em> [144 pages, sadly not online].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very nicely designed and illustrated 1943 booklet, While Benefit street was young by Margaret Bingham Stillwell (1887-1984). A short &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/09\/13\/while-benefit-street-was-young-1943\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}