The Copy Book

There are four posts in The Copy Book assigned to 1885. To see all our posts in chronological order, go to the Tale of Years.

1884 1885 1886

Daw Chorus

By Ethel Smyth

Composer Ethel Smyth starts telling the Archbishop of Canterbury a joke, and then wishes she hadn’t...

Progressive Travancore

By S. Ramanath Aiyar

Contemporary historian Ramanath Aiyar catalogued the ways in which Maharajah Moolam Thurunal led the way in modernising British India.

King Solomon’s Mines

Based on the novel by Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Allan Quartermain goes in search of a lost tourist and a legendary hoard of diamonds.

‘My Shadow’

By Robert Louis Stevenson

An enduringly popular poem by the author of ‘Treasure Island’.