英语词汇tennyson bindings的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Tennyson bindings. The 19th-century expression Tennyson bindings is used to indicate affectation of culture. According to Willard Espy, in O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun: “A nouveau-riche matron was showing a friend of similar stripe her library, which had been stocked by interior decorators ‘and here,’ she said, ‘is my Tennyson,’ ‘No, no, darling,’ corrected her friend. ‘Those are green. Tennyson is blue.’ ” Chewing gum mil- lionaire William Wrigley bought books by the yard. “Measure those bookshelves with a yardstick and buy enough books to fill ’em,” he told his secretary while furnishing his Chicago apartment on Lake Shore Drive. “Get plenty of snappy red and green books with plenty of gilt lettering. I want a swell show- ing.” At least more original is the advice Lady Gough’s Book of Etiquette gave library owners in Victorian times: “Don’t place books by married male authors next to those by female authors and vice versa.”

词汇	tennyson bindings
词源	Tennyson bindings. The 19th-century expression Tennyson bindings is used to indicate affectation of culture. According to Willard Espy, in O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun: “A nouveau-riche matron was showing a friend of similar stripe her library, which had been stocked by interior decorators ‘and here,’ she said, ‘is my Tennyson,’ ‘No, no, darling,’ corrected her friend. ‘Those are green. Tennyson is blue.’ ” Chewing gum mil- lionaire William Wrigley bought books by the yard. “Measure those bookshelves with a yardstick and buy enough books to fill ’em,” he told his secretary while furnishing his Chicago apartment on Lake Shore Drive. “Get plenty of snappy red and green books with plenty of gilt lettering. I want a swell show- ing.” At least more original is the advice Lady Gough’s Book of Etiquette gave library owners in Victorian times: “Don’t place books by married male authors next to those by female authors and vice versa.”
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