The Dark Lantern (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight)

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Since his publishers refer to it as “the first of a sequence of novels” Mr. Henry Williamson’s book The Dark Lantern may prove to be the foundation stone of an imposing edifice . . . [there follows a somewhat satiric outline of plot/characters] . . . His late Victorian scene is sometimes lurid, sometimes dark, but he introduces us to many interesting people, which is good augury for the rest of the sequence. Pasted in the front of HW's own copy of The Dark Lantern is this charming sketch made by his son Richard Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1987). "The Policing of Street Lighting". Yale French Studies (73): 61–74. doi: 10.2307/2930197. JSTOR 2930197. Jane Wilbred, the daughter of a murderess, was raised in an orphanage and began her life in service to a tyrannical vicar’s wife. She has altered a reference letter and secured a new post in London to the Bentley family. Richard and Hetty are the main characters of this first volume. The story revolves and evolves around their complicated courtship and marriage. Due to the antipathy of Mr Turney to Richard, the latter is reduced to visiting Hetty clandestinely, through a door in their garden wall, behind which is an orchard and a summerhouse. It seems likely that HW based this garden door on the actual door pictured below; it is close to the ponds, and old maps of Carshalton show that there was once indeed an orchard behind it. Today the whole area is a small nature reserve.

Boesveld, Sarah (23 July 2013). "While their popularity soars, illuminated paper lanterns increasingly banned across Canada as 'serious fire hazards' ". National Post. Postmedia Network Inc. The Tell-Tale Heart", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, features the use of a dark lantern by the protagonist to shine a single ray of light on his victim's eye. All fueled lanterns are somewhat hazardous owing to the danger of handling flammable and toxic fuel, danger of fire or burns from the high temperatures involved, and potential dangers from carbon monoxide poisoning if used in an enclosed environment. On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere had two lanterns held up in the Old North Church to signal to patriots in Charlestown that the British troops were crossing the Charles River to disarm the rebel colonial militias. The Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred the day after on April 19, starting the American Revolution.

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lantern jaw". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Lanterns were usually made from a metal frame with several sides (usually four, but up to eight) or round, commonly with a hook or a hoop of metal on top. Windows of some translucent material may be fitted in the sides; these are now usually glass or plastic but formerly were thin sheets of animal horn, or tinplate punched with holes or decorative patterns. Those of us who are self-confessed admirers of the translucent prose of the author have not been disappointed. . . . There is no need to point the fact that Henry Williamson’s place as the fore-most prose writer of the day remains largely unchallenged. . . . [analysis of plot] . . .

La trama ruota intorno ad una casa, come da titolo, e ai segreti di chi in essa ci vive. Ogni personaggio nasconde delle ansie e nessuno di loro sembra sentirsi al sicuro in quelle mura come fossero estranei. Robert Bentley e la moglie Mina, dalla Francia sbarcano in Inghilterra in quella casa per assistere la madre morente dell'uomo, e qui i loro destini insieme a quelli della cameriera Jane, si incastreranno. Mina sembra innervorsi all'improvviso da quando è Inghilterra e i sospetti annebbieranno ogni cosa. has an extraordinary – and without doubt deliberate – resonance to the opening sentence of his earlier masterpiece, Tarka the Otter, which reads: Lanterns designed as permanently mounted electric lighting fixtures are used in interior, landscape, and civic lighting applications. Styles can evoke former eras, unify street furniture themes, or enhance aesthetic considerations. They are manufactured for use with various wired voltage supplies.However, there is no hint that they were real-life neighbours in the novel! The author arranges his fictional tale very cleverly. Richard Maddison and Hetty Turney (HW used the surname of his mother’s mother here) do not know each other prior to a chance meeting on the Hill as Richard is returning home from his mother’s funeral (at the family’s home in the West Country). They are then introduced properly by Richard’s sister Theodora (Dora), who is a friend of the Turneys, when she asks her brother to join their little musical group, which includes Hetty’s brother Hugh, who is in love with Dora – but has tragically contracted syphilis.