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Slave Tales: Aesop and Walter Crane GRESHAM LECTURE MARCH 8 TH 2018

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Page 1: Slave Tales: Aesop and Walter Crane · Fabule Esope cum co[mlmento [i.e., The Fables of Aesop, with a Com- mentary] . .. [Westminster, Wynkyn de Worde, c. l. FABLES AXO . poor Lis

Slave Tales: Aesop and Walter CraneGRESHAM LECTURE MARCH 8TH 2018

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The Lion, the Fox and the Ass

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Give him an inch and he takes a mile(image by Walter Crane)

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Handsome is as Handsome Does (image by Walter Crane)

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Blowing Hot and Cold in ‘the Satyr and the Traveller’ (image by Walter Crane)

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Sour Grapes (image by Walter Crane)

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Walter Crane William James Linton

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Walter Crane, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’

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Walter Crane, ‘The Triumph of Labour’

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DON’T HAVE KINGS!

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PRODUCTIVE LABOUR IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF WEALTH!

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Thomas Bewick (1776) Milo Winter (1919)

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Ben Edwin Perry (1892-1968)

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Caxton (1484)

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Portraits of Aesop

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Sally Grindley’s popular Aesop, illustrated by John Bendall-Brunello (1999)

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Hermes bestows the gift of Fable on Aesop

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Aesop converses with a dog on a 5th-century-BCE Athenian plate

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John Locke,Some thoughts concerning education (1693)

Each child has a need for 'some easy pleasant book... wherein the entertainment that he finds might draw him on’; Aesop's Fables is 'the best, which being stories apt to delight and entertain a child, may yet afford useful reflections to a grown man.'

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Edward Baldwin (pseudonym of William Godwin), Fables, Ancient and Modern (1805); his daughter Mary.

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Crane’s image for ‘The Man and the Snake’ informed the Liverpool Dockers’ Banner

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Unity is Strength!! ‘The Bundle of Twigs’

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Aston & Haydon Miners Union; Watford branch of the Workers’ Union