#The Anatomist’s Wife

[sometimesreading]

Studying anatomy while reading 🎧📖 The Anatomist’s Wife

#actually on book 7 #An Artless Demise #but it didn’t make as good of a caption #I feel so shitty and sick today but I can’t get behind this early in the year #halp #honestly should be working on psych but don’t have the brain-space #currently reading #audiobooks #my art #The Anatomist’s Wife #Lady Darby #Anna Lee Huber #book photography #booklr #studybrl #anatomy #bones

[annafromuni]

Good ol' Scottish Historical Fiction Murder Mystery

I’m a historical fiction fanatic. More specifically, the murder mystery side of historical fiction. I can and will read other historical fiction books but my heart lies with the slightly gruesome, dark, immersive worlds of sleuthing and investigating while in polite society. The Anatomist’s Wife by Anna Lee Huber ticks so many boxes for me and let me convince you that it will tick every box…

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#the anatomist's wife #anna lee huber #kiera darby #sebastian gage #lord gage #lady darby #historical fiction books #historical fiction #historical fiction murder mystery #murder mystery #crime mystery #romance #regency era #scotland #scottish highlands #fiction books #books #books and reading #bookstagram #book aesthetic #book review

[scotianostra]

On 28th April 1842 Sir Charles Bell, surgeon, anatomist and physiologist died.

Bell was a Scottish surgeon-anatomist who early on published "Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting" for instructing artists and this was based on his anatomic knowledge.He established that the nerves of the special senses could be traced from specific areas of the brain to their end organs, quite an astonishing discovery, or theory given the era, the second pic shows his illustration.

Charles Bell studied anatomy and medicine at the University of Edinburgh, he left Edinburgh for London after he and his brother John were rejected by the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary due to perceived jealousy from other physicians. He lived and worked in London for thirty years in 1812 taking over the school of anatomy in Great Windmill Street, founded by fellow Scot William Hunter in 1767.

Bell returned to Scotland in 1837, where he ended his career as professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh.

Bell was an expert surgeon: he served as a surgeon with the British army at the famous Battle of Waterloo in 1815, however his mortality rate in amputations was criticised by the infamous Robert Knox, 9 out of 10 of his patients died.

The condition Bell's Palsy is named after Charles Bell, this is a type of facial paralysis that results in an inability to control the facial muscles on the affected side.

He is said to have had bouts of "melancholy," for that I read depression and suffered increasingly from ‘spasms of pain’, presumably angina, and died in 1842 on a visit to Hallow,Worcestershire. He had been knighted in 1831. His wife survived him for 34 years; they had no children. Charles Bell is buried in Hallow Churchyard

#scotland #scottish #history #surgeon #physician

[hopes-peak-postal-company]

Hey Mod Akane? Can we get the antag trio with a tall and pretty s/o, but she's so pure and innocent? Like her mentality could easily be compared to that of a 6 year old. (I've asked this to sixth different blogs now)

Here you go I may have gone a bit off topic in parts though, so I’m sorry if I have.

The anatomist trio with a tall and pretty s/o that is also too pure and innocent:

Byakuya Togami:

* If it turns out your taller than him Byakuya wouldn’t like this, especially if you wear high heels a lot

* He ends up investing in some shoes with a taller heel, so he can be at least an inch taller than you

* It may sound shallow, but he does care to some extent if your beautiful and luckily you are extremely pretty

*The only reason he would prefer a pretty s/o like you is to impress his family and if he’s going to take over the Byakuya enterprise he needs a beautiful s/o by his side to boost his image

* Now your innocent and pure nature is a bit of an annoyance to him because he constantly has to answer questions you should already know the answer too, but you don’t because of how innocent you are

* Now because your childlike nature you are constantly dragging Byakuya to childish things he missed out on as a child because of his unconventional childhood

* You may think he finds this annoying and he does, but deep down he enjoys it because he’s not used to doing things like this since he was never able to

* And as the relationship goes on you will notice that he protests much less when you drag him somewhere fun

* If you ever asked him a dirty question because you don’t know what it means he goes red with embarrassment

* He doesn’t know how to answer that and tells you not to say such crude things

* Even if you don’t know what it means

* When people try to take advantage of your innocent nature since you don’t understand when they are taking advantage of you

* Byakuya tells them that peasants like them should do it themselves and they shouldn’t bother people who are better than them, especially the future wife of the future leader of the Byakuya enterprise

* You may not be Byakuya’s ideal s/o, but he treats you with the upmost respect and care imaginable

* Even if he does come across as rude and hurtful at times he does love you a lot.

Kokichi Ouma:

* Now you being taller than him isn’t something he will be bothered by as much as Byakuya would be since he is used to being smaller than most people

* Will use your height to his advantage though. Whenever there’s something he can’t reach he will call you no matter how far you are just to waste your time, and slightly so he has an excuse to talk to you

* Will also jump on your back at any given moment, so he can be taller than everyone else and get carried around to places he wants to go to

* Now if your pretty he will give you compliments, but at the wrong times to make you flustered

* For example, if your at an important event he will whisper a compliment about how pretty you look tonight and then walk away leaving you flustered in front of whoever you are talking too

* He really loves your childish mentality will constantly play childish games with you, since he enjoys playing them as well

* Will also happily go with you to any childish venture you have install

* Kokichi will constantly make dirty jokes to you and if you ask him what he means he will just pat your head and tell you that you don’t need to know

* Making you frustrated since she won’t tell you and this just amuses Kokichi even more, especially if you start pouting

* If anyone tries to take advantage of your innocent nature he is dragging you away from them and setting up a prank for them later

* Just, so they get the message not to mess with you again

* Only he is allowed to do that

* Anyway the two of you are a perfect match and very a like, although Kokichi is a lot less innocent than you are, so don’t always listen to what he says.

Nagito Komaeda:

* Now if your taller than him he would not care he wouldn’t even pay any mind to it

* He wouldn’t feel insecure at all and if your taller than him by a large amount he will let you lean on his head or shoulder whenever you want too

* He will constantly compliment how pretty you are he doesn’t waste no second to hype you up, even if you weren’t conventionally attractive he would still do this

* Now with your childish nature he will just go with the flow with whatever you want to do and let you drag him anywhere you want to go, he will do all this with a smile excited to do something you love

* He likes your innocent nature since it reminds him that there is still hope left in this world

* So whenever you ask him a dirty question wanting to know what it means he panics and tells you it’s nothing for you to worry about and it’s better if you don’t know and forget about it

* If someone ever takes advantage of your nature he tells you to please not listen to them and gently drags you away from them. Has he is doing this he will look back at the perpetrator and give them a menacing stare, which can be quite intimidating to a stranger

* Overall, he really loves you no matter how you act and he really adores these personality traits that you have and wouldn’t change them for the world.

#byakuya togami x reader #byakuya togami #kokichi ouma x reader #kokichi ouma #nagito komaeda x reader #nagito komaeda

[super-caribe-suomi1012]

Max Born was born in Breslau #OnThisDay the 11th December, 1882, to Professor Gustav Born, anatomist and embryologist, and his wife Margarete, née Kauffmann, who was a member of a Silesian family of industrialists.

Max attended the König Wilhelm’s Gymnasium in Breslau and continued his studies at the Universities of Breslau (where the well-known mathematician Rosanes introduced him to matrix calculus), Heidelberg, Zurich (here he was deeply impressed by Hurwitz’s lectures on higher analysis), and Göttingen. In the latter seat of learning he read mathematics chiefly, sitting under Klein, Hilbert, Minkowski, and Runge, but also studied astronomy under Schwarzschild, and physics under Voigt. He was awarded the Prize of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen for his work on the stability of elastic wires and tapes in 1906, and graduated at this university a year later on the basis of this work.

Born next went to Cambridge for a short time, to study under Larmor and J.J. Thomson. Back in Breslau during the years 1908-1909, he worked with the physicists Lummer and Pringsheim, and also studied the theory of relativity. On the strength of one of his papers, Minkowski invited his collaboration at Göttingen but soon after his return there, in the winter of 1909, Minkowski died. He had then the task of sifting Minkowski’s literary works in the field of physics and of publishing some uncompleted papers. Soon he became an academic lecturer at Göttingen in recognition of his work on the relativistic electron. He accepted Michelson’s invitation to lecture on relativity in Chicago (1912) and while there he did some experiments with the Michelson grating spectrograph.

An appointment as professor (extraordinarius) to assist Max Planck at Berlin University came to Born in 1915 but he had to join the German Armed Forces. In a scientific office of the army he worked on the theory of sound ranging. He found time also to study the theory of crystals, and published his first book, Dynamik der Kristallgitter (Dynamics of Crystal Lattices), which summarized a series of investigations he had started at Göttingen.

At the conclusion of the First World War, in 1919, Born was appointed Professor at the University of Frankfurt-on-Main, where a laboratory was put at his disposal. His assistant was Otto Stern, and the first of the latter’s well-known experiments, which later were rewarded with a Nobel Prize, originated there.

Max Born went to Göttingen as Professor in 1921, at the same time as James Franck, and he remained there for twelve years, interrupted only by a trip to America in 1925. During these years the Professor’s most important works were created; first a modernized version of his book on crystals, and numerous investigations by him and his pupils on crystal lattices, followed by a series of studies on the quantum theory. Among his collaborators at this time were many physicists, later to become well-known, such as Pauli, Heisenberg, Jordan, Fermi, Dirac, Hund, Hylleraas, Weisskopf, Oppenheimer, Joseph Mayer and Maria Goeppert-Mayer. During the years 1925 and 1926 he published, with Heisenberg and Jordan, investigations on the principles of quantum mechanics (matrix mechanics) and soon after this, his own studies on the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics.

As were so many other German scientists, he was forced to emigrate in 1933 and was invited to Cambridge, where he taught for three years as Stokes Lecturer. His main sphere of work during this period was in the field of nonlinear electrodynamics, which he developed in collaboration with Infeld.

During the winter of 1935-1936 Born spent six months in Bangalore at the Indian Institute of Science, where he worked with Sir C.V. Raman and his pupils. In 1936 he was appointed Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy in Edinburgh, where he worked until his retirement in 1953. He is now living at the small spa town, Bad Pyrmont.

Max Born has been awarded fellowships of many academies – Göttingen, Moscow, Berlin, Bangalore, Bucharest, Edinburgh, London, Lima, Dublin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Washington, and Boston, and he has received honorary doctorates from Bristol, Bordeaux, Oxford, Freiburg/Breisgau, Edinburgh, Oslo, Brussels Universities, Humboldt University Berlin, and Technical University Stuttgart. He holds the Stokes Medal of Cambridge, the Max Planck Medaille der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (i.e. of the German Physical Society); the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, London, the Hugo Grotius Medal for International Law, and was also awarded the MacDougall-Brisbane Prize and the Gunning-Victoria Jubilee Prize of the Royal Society, Edinburgh. In 1953 he was made honorary citizen of the town of Göttingen and a year later was granted the Nobel Prize for Physics. He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the German Federal Republic in 1959.

The year 1913 saw his marriage to Hedwig, née Ehrenberg, and there are three children of the marriage.

Max Born died on January 5, 1970.

[atundratoadstool]

re: this post, would LOVE to hear your thoughts on middlemarch! i’m reading it with my book club while writing a 10-page final paper on trauma in dracula.

So it has been well over a year since I was really doing solid academic work on Middlemarch, so it--like the state of very recent Dracula scholarship--is something I'd admittedly more rusty at discussing it than I would care to admit. However, if you're curious about the big cool things that get me (and the Victorianist on my committee) excited about Middlemarch, here's the two major points of my chapter that I think are cool to know:

I am firmly of the belief that Tertius Lydgate should be read as a realist re-imagining of the protagonist of George Eliot's novella "The Lifted Veil" "which is a gothic tale about a depressive telepath, his terrible wife, and an inexplicable Victor Frankenstein knock off. I think that what is so tremendously tragic about him is that he--like Latimer--is gifted with tremendous powers of vision but cannot bring them into useful focus. Latimer and Lydgate can perceive interiors (be they psychic or anatomical) but do not act as men who have any real feel for other human beings' interiority, which is why Lydgate, for all his knowledge of organic tissue, cannot navigate the social organism of Middlemarch itself.

Patterns of natural collection and scientific paradigms in Middlemarch are important. George Eliot was a woman obsessed with natural collecting who loved each and every squishy marine worm she could coax into a bucket. Really. You should read her partner's accounts of their holidays collecting marine worms if you want to be bowled over by the most adorable irl couple of the nineteenth century. I believe that Lydgate's myopia as an anatomist is contrasted by Farebrother's perceptiveness as a naturalist, and I believe also that the moment where they meet and exchange specimens is prophetic. I don't know where you are in the novel, so I'll avoid major spoilers, but the thing I want everybody everywhere to know is that sea mice are marine worms of the genus aphrodita, which is name they got for their ostensibly yonic appearance and that marine worm girl George Eliot would absolutely know about. When Lydgate trades his sea mice to Farebrother for an anecephalic fetus he is trading a symbol of amatory love for a dead and incomplete child.

Hope that's enough Middlemarch thoughts to be of some interest! If nothing else, please appreciate knowing about George Eliot's passion for both telepathy and worms if you didn't know about it before.

#George Eliot #Middlemarch #The Lifted Veil #grad school life

[redcapsaints]

What's Living, If Not With You?

Welcome, romantics and anti-romantics, to this simple, passionate yet heart-wrenching legend of Dona Paula, her lover and the point that was named after her + my visit and thoughts on the point!

This goes out to those who are suckers for the classic "forbidden romance, angst" trope, just like me; trust me, you guys are gonna love this.

Everything is Fascinating to Those Who are Fascinated.

I was just about the age of nine when my parents decided it was about time we explored the famous, Portugal-influenced Indian state of Goa. I don't think I got a lot of say in the planning of the trip, given I was only a child, but I liked beaches and still do, so it was an approval from me and my sister.

So one flight, one day, and many fiascoes later, we found ourselves at a higher ground by a beach with a bottle of soda in each hand.

I was a curious child and exploring was my forte, so I stood there, and stared long and hard at the bright white statues of a woman and a man, standing tall above the sea. My then seven-year-old sister asked my mother what the deal with the funny-looking rocks was, and here's what she told us.

The Price of Love is Death.

Originally from Sri Lanka, the Souto Maior family was an affluent one which settled in Goa in 1744. They conquered a major strip of land in the state and quickly became popular.

Dona Paula Amaral Antónia de Souto Maior was a witty, pretty woman and daughter of Dom António Caetano de Menezes Souto Maior, an influential and wealthy man.

She was said to be noble, charitable, and kind at heart despite her high status. Whenever she wasn't handling her responsibilities, she was helping locals in the neighborhood.

Her reputation was well-kept for a long while, until she fell in love with a poor fisherman. Dona Paula had an affair with him in secret before working up the courage to present her relationship to her father, who immediately disapproved of it immediately in fear of damaging the family name.

Heartbroken, both Dona Paula and her lover jumped off a point over the beach and into the sea, for living had no worth without love.

Most of the locals, with all respect still intact for Dona Paula, grieved her death (occurring on 21 December, 1782). They named the point after her to honour her and her undying, eternal love.

Romance Lives Forever, in Stories.

Years after Dona Paula's death, the two sculptures were installed on the point, which now give it the title of 'the most romantic spot' in all of Goa.

Legend has it, anyone who watches the sea from the point on a full-moon night, can still see the fisherman floating about in the waters as he searches for his beloved.

To this day, no one is quite sure whether the legend is true or if it's just a tall-tale, knitted by an elder to have the kids of the house themselves a good night's sleep.

Many even say that the sculptures aren't Dona Paula and her lover at all- they're of an anatomist who goes by the name of Robert Knox and his wife.

Fictitious or not, either way, I'd like to believe in Dona Paula's tale of true love, because if she had to sacrifice herself for it, surely she had wanted someone to have faith in it. My nine-year-old self and I now would be more than happy to be part of that 'someone'.

Oh and the best part? The sculptures were crafted by a woman, Yrsa von Leistner.

And just for reference and aesthetic purposes, here's a picture my dad took of the sculptures:

Pretty romantic, isn't it? I like to think that way too.

#travel rambles #romantic legends are what i'll die for #dona paula altered my brain's chemistry #sculptures with angsty back stories #goa trip #sculpture #legends

[myhistoryofbooks]

24 Books for 2024

These are all chosen from my personal library of unread books using a random number generator. The only limitations I imposed were no repeat authors and no sequels within a series I haven't already read the previous entries in.

The List in original publication date order:

[ ] The Nobleman and other Romances by Isabelle de Charrière (1760s-90s)

[ ] The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (1915)

[ ] The Love Child by Edith Olivier (1927)

[ ] My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes (1931)

[ ] The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson (1932)

[ ] The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)

[ ] Chatterton Square by E.H. Young (1947)

[ ] Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)

[ ] Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1977)

[ ] The Green Kingdom by Rachel Maddux (1977)

[ ] The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)

[ ] The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (1990)

[ ] Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters (2004)

[ ] Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (2004)

[ ] Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

[ ] Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (2005)

[ ] Dark Victory: the Life of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov (2007)

[ ] The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (2007)

[ ] The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland (2009)

[ ] The Anatomist’s Wife by Anna Lee Huber (2012)

[ ] Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield (2013)

[ ] Hagseed by Margaret Atwood (2016)

[ ] The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda Quick (2017)

[ ] Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2022)

#24 books for 2024 #tbr list #reading challenge

[meret118]

#Trigger Warning #Gore

[13magoo13]

Book One for BookGoals 2023 complete.

I’m still in the middle of reading Stephen King’s new boo, Fairy Tale.  I tend to read during my lunch break.  Thus, my wonderful husband upgraded my e-reader since my last one couldn’t hold a charge for long.   I’m not good at book reviews, but I hope to get better as the year goes on.

So, while I read Fairy Tale at night & weekends, I downloaded some murder books to my e-reader.  I am starting with Anne Lee Huber’s The Anatomist’s Wife.  Recommend to me for I love murder mysteries especially in the 19th century England-Scotlan background. 

The book is 368 pages long, I found it be a page turner.  All the characters were engaging, the murder well planned, and love the historical references.  The descriptions she uses to highlight her character’s features plays an important key to how she has her female lead investigate mystery.  

In addition, there are some historical notes at the end of the book, so you know the author does her research.  

It only took me a week to complete, and I downloaded the second book soon after.  

The series has 11 books, though the 11th one is coming out later this year.   I’m going to try to pace myself with them.  But like I stated it was such a page turner that I had to force myself to stop, or I go over my break time. 

Thus book 1 of 52 is complete for 2023. 

#books #book goals #2023 #murder mystery

[tomesofthetrade]

Current read ❄️❄️❄️

#books #booklr #bookish #the anatomist’s wife #Anna Lee Huber #reading #book nerd #bookworm #booklover #booksbooksbooks #book photography #book picture #kindle #historical romance #romance #romantic thriller

[adventureandpages]

Friday recommendation: The Anatomist’s Wife by Anna Lee Huber.

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#booklr #the anatomist’s wife #historical fiction #Anna Lee Huber #Books #dogs #books and dogs #coton de tulear

[peacocks-gotta-fly]

July Wrap-Up + Avatar: The Last Page Turner Readathon TBR!!

#books #booktube #mistborn #between shades of gray #walk on earth a stranger #the good luck girls #house of earth and blood #crescent city #the anatomist's wife #bewitching season

[the-final-sentence]

For as it happened, trouble was brewing near Edinburgh, and it would once again bring Gage and me together, far sooner than either of us could have predicted, and with unexpected consequences.

Anna Lee Huber,  from The Anatomist's Wife

#Anna Lee Huber #The Anatomist's Wife

[autisticheadcanons]

Kiera Darby/Gage from the Anatomist’s Wife series is autistic (special interest is art)

#kiera darby #anatomists wife #anonymous #autistic headcanon #actuallyautistic #Anonymous

[childhoodgrave]

do you have any kind of story for the resurrectionist? I really like the design, seems like they'd be a really fun character

i do!! hes part of a larger collection of ocs i have living in a town thats being slowly consumed by entropy, though hes technically from a different universe and just came to live in that one for funsies. basically shes a graverobber for hire who also does other jobs for ppl if they ask, but right now most commonly works for a mortician who is using human remains to try and restore his zombie wife (who he fell in love with while he embalmed her and stole her body to bring her back to life and marry her) back to the way that she was when she was alive. he usually gets the resurrectionist to break into the graves of the ppl who he just recently buried so that the upturned earth isnt suspicious. besides that tho they like snooping in everyone in the towns business and messing around. their name comes from the graverobbers in england in the 18th century employed by anatomists who wanted to study cadavers but couldnt bc there were so few available. they claim to be one of those original graverobbers :P

#ocs #THANK U SO MUXH FOR ASKING