THE BOOK-WORM

BY ELINOR MONSELL

The hand-coloured illustration is unframed and centered on the tan page. On the right side of the image, a man in 18th-century dress sits in a backless chair or stool, facing left. His hair is tied back, and he wears a long green coat with frilled white sleeves, green breeches, white hose, and black slippers. In his hand, he holds a lorgnette up to his eyes. He peers down at a large gold-coloured book propped up on a pile of several other large books. There is a globe behind the books, showing mostly blue ocean with a pink continent visible along its top left edge. The artist’s initials are visible at the bottom left corner of the image: “EM.”

MLA citation:

Monsell, Elinor. “The Book-worm.” The Green Sheaf, No. 1, 1903, p. [ii]. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/gsv1-monsell-bookworm

magazine_images The Green Sheaf 1 The Book-worm Elinor Monsell 1903 Wood-engraving by Elinor Monsell, hand-coloured by Pamela Colman Smith Frontispiece Chair/stool, Slippers, Breeches, Globe, Hose, Lorgnette, and Books Human Figure, Male Figure/ Man, and Coat/ Jacket 18th century