Telltale
Author: Carmel Bird
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Year: 2022
ISBN: 978-1-925760-92-7
Online: Publisher’s website
Carmel shares her impressions of ‘Cole’s Funny Picture Book’ as a child. She starts her 8-page Chapter Nine on page 47 with ‘One of the earliest books I pored over as a child was Cole’s Funny Picture Book from 1879. Funny? No, it isn’t, unless ‘funny’ signifies dark and twisted. It is intended to be humorous, but there is something sinister and deadly running through it like a poisonous plait.’
Remorandom
Author: Remo Giuffre
Publisher: REMO Since 1988
Year: 2023
ISBN: 978-0-9925848-4-9
Online: Publisher’s website
Author and publisher Remo Giuffre — ‘Twice a year, in May and October, REMORANDOM will feature 90 snack-sized stories, ideas and observations designed to inform, entertain and inspire a global community of curious readers. . . . Uncommon knowledge. Everything interesting.’
Item 13 in RR#1 is on E.W. Cole and Remo makes all his stories available online and his article can be viewed at https://remosince1988.com/blogs/stories/e-w-cole
Enchanted Beneath the Bluff:
Agnes and Geraldine’s Pursuit of Elwood’s Elusive Black Diamonds
Author: Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather Andrea Arnold
Publisher: The Authors
Year: 2023
ISBN: 978-0-646-84514-2 (hardback)
Online: NLA Reference
It was Cole’s interest in Spiritualism that was the connection betweeen ‘Agnes and Geraldine’s Pursuit’ and Cole. Pages 62-3 go into some detail on Cole’s attitude to Spiritualism, due at least in some part to attempting to contact his daughter Ruby Angelina who died from scarlet fever, aged 8. Agnes and Geraldine had the somewhat more pragmatic intention of seeing if Spiritualism could help them find the elusive diamonds. The full text of Cole’s ‘Spiritualism, a Paper read before the Melbourne Free Discussion Society, Sunday Evening, July 9, 1871’ is available at the Publications/Religion page.
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