Excellent fiddlesticks for the insolent rascal, and other ways to while the days
May 29, 2009 1:32 PM 
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As a belated tribute (of sorts) to
Victoria Day, may you find interest in a variety of
Victorina era literature, short and long. In the short category, there is
Chit-Chat of Humor, Wit, and Anecdote (Edited by Pierce Pungent; New York: Stringer & Townsend (1857), who has written
quite a bit of such work)
[via mefi projects], and
Conundrums New and Old (Collected by John Ray Frederick; J. Drake & Company Publishers Chicago, 1902)
[via mefi projects] This publishing house also published
The Art of Characturing, copyright 1941. If you prefer your antiquated humor with a twist, take a gander at
bizarro version of Conundrums New and Old [via mefi projects]. In the category of longer works, behold the
The Lost Novels of Victorian New Zealand [via an older mefi projects].
The lost novels is a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, provided by the
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, which is part of the
Victoria University of Wellington. The content of the online archive ranges from novels written or set in New Zealand to shorter fiction that appeared in local pamphlets and newspaper supplements, and covers a broad range of topics. The long list of
archive projects are available under various licenses, and where the original text is out of copyright it is our policy to provide the digitised version under a
New Zealand Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-CA).
posted by filthy light thief at 2:39 PM on May 29