[Next Project] Revolving Lights by Dorothy Richardson

[Ray Ryan]

Still wrapping up Deadlock but might as well get started on the next Pilgrimage volume. 

PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62967

IA: https://archive.org/details/revolvinglights0000doro

[Alex Cabal]

OK! Please send a link to your repo once you start.

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[Ray Ryan]

Getting import errors trying to bootstrap with se version 4.0.0, "No module named 'encutils'"

../standard-ebooks/revolving-lights ❯❯❯ se create-draft --author "Dorothy M. Richardson" --title "Revolving Lights" --pg-id 62967

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/util.py", line 19, in <module>
    from ._fetchgae import _defaultFetcher
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/_fetchgae.py", line 7, in <module>
    from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/bin/se", line 6, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ~~~~^^
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/se/main.py", line 85, in main
    module = importlib.import_module(command_module)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pyt...@3.14/3.14.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/importlib/__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1406, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1371, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1342, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 938, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 759, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 491, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/se/commands/create_draft.py", line 26, in <module>
    from se.se_epub import SeEpub
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/se/se_epub.py", line 30, in <module>
    from se.se_epub_lint import LintMessage
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/se/se_epub_lint.py", line 20, in <module>
    import cssutils
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/__init__.py", line 79, in <module>
    from . import css, errorhandler, stylesheets
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/css/__init__.py", line 61, in <module>
    from .csscharsetrule import CSSCharsetRule
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/css/csscharsetrule.py", line 10, in <module>
    from . import cssrule
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/css/cssrule.py", line 7, in <module>
    import cssutils.util
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/util.py", line 21, in <module>
    from ._fetch import _defaultFetcher
  File "/Users/rjrjr/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/lib/python3.14/site-packages/cssutils/_fetch.py", line 14, in <module>
    import encutils
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encutils'

[Robin Whittleton]

There’s a thread on this already if you search back. A potential suggest solution was to uninstall and reinstall the toolkit again.

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[Ray Ryan]

Here's the repo: https://github.com/rjrjr/dorothy-m-richardson_revolving-lights

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[Alex Cabal]

OK, David will manage with Robin reviewing.

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> Here's the repo: https://github.com/rjrjr/dorothy-m-

> richardson_revolving-lights <https://github.com/rjrjr/dorothy-m-
> richardson_revolving-lights>

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> There’s a thread on this already if you search back. A potential
> suggest solution was to uninstall and reinstall the toolkit again.
>
> -Robin
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>> On 7 Jul 2026, at 22:21, Ray Ryan <ray....@gmail.com

>> > PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62967 <https://
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>> > IA: https://archive.org/details/revolvinglights0000doro

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[Ray Ryan]

Finished proofreading and in the home stretch, thinking about a cover. I like Holywell Street, Strand, looking West, 1900 by Philip Norman, found as the first illustration in London Vanished and Vanishing, published in 1905.

Here's a mock of the cover.

[David]

I suppose that could work - a couple thoughts: (1) could you say a word about how it fits this novel? (2) Wee shame it isn't higher resolution. Would either of these give a better base to work from? (They would still take a little tidying up...)

https://archive.org/details/londonvanishedva00normuoft/page/n7/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/bwb_P6-CFD-543/page/n7/mode/2up

[Ray Ryan]

The first chapter in the book (more than a quarter of this volume and the longest chapter in the entire series) details a walk down a very similar street in London. Really, I would have been happier with something that looked like Spade House, where most of the rest of the book is set, but I just couldn't find anything.

I can certainly try to find a higher res source.

[Ray Ryan]

How's this?

[Ray Ryan]

Another possibility, although more monochrome than usual. Reading letters is a theme in this book.

https://archive.org/details/hammershoi-ida-reading-a-letter

[Ray Ryan]

Nevermind, didn't actually find PD proof for that one.

[Ray Ryan]

Oooh, this is pretty good! 

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13508/the-letter

[Ray Ryan]

[Ray Ryan]

David, if you're happy with the new cover image I'm ready to push the final changes for review.

On Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 3:08:50 PM UTC-7 Ray Ryan wrote:

[Alex Cabal]

This is too much of a pencil illustration, we try to go closer to oil
painting style. The Hammershoi one was fine if you can find PD proof, we
have more of his stuff in the corpus already. You can check the proof we
used for his other works to see if there's an art book of his.

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[David]

I've scoured the internet for PD proof for "Ida Reading a Letter", and failed to find it. (There are proofs for paintings of a woman reading a book, but I take it that the whole point is *letters*.) I think your original suggestion is fine, and the version you included in an earlier message in this thread looked okay. Which is the original for that one? 

[Ray Ryan]

Thanks for looking.

I think this is the one to use, from the two links you found: https://archive.org/details/londonvanishedva00normuoft/page/n7/mode/1up

I'm confused, though, how to fetch such an image at its raw resolution. It seems like the more I zoom in the more IA scales it for me. Do you have any tricks to share?

[Ray Ryan]

Nevermind, found the single page raw links.

[David]

The one that you had in your "How's this?" message was much more likely the other one (more "red" toned). If you can confirm, I'll get it into the Artworks DB.

[Ray Ryan]

Yeah, I think that red toning is a mistake, bad white point or over saturation. I'd like to rework it from this one. 

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[David]

Okay! That one's now in the Artworks DB.

And just in case this helps:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Norman_(artist)
• https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87821929.html

[Ray Ryan]

Pushed! And ready for review.

[Robin Whittleton]

Should get it done by the end of the weekend.

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[Robin Whittleton]

Found enough time to get it done now: https://github.com/rjrjr/dorothy-m-richardson_revolving-lights/issues/1 

Let me know if anything needs further explanation.

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[Robin Whittleton]

This is ready for you Alex.

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[Alex Cabal]

Great work as always Ray, I've released it. Thanks!

In the metadata, make sure to remove unused elements - you forgot to
remove the ebook wiki URL element and a transcriber URL, and this caused
build --check to fail.

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>> On 7 Aug 2026, at 19:31, Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net> wrote:
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>> Found enough time to get it done now: https://github.com/rjrjr/

>> dorothy-m-richardson_revolving-lights/issues/1 <https://github.com/
>> rjrjr/dorothy-m-richardson_revolving-lights/issues/1>

>>
>> Let me know if anything needs further explanation.
>>
>> -Robin
>>
>>> On 7 Aug 2026, at 18:50, Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Should get it done by the end of the weekend.
>>>
>>> -Robin
>>>
>>>> On 7 Aug 2026, at 18:07, Ray Ryan <ray....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Pushed! And ready for review.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, August 7, 2026 at 7:21:20 AM UTC-7 David wrote:
>>>>

>>>> Okay! That one's now in the Artworks DB <https://
>>>> standardebooks.org/artworks/philip-norman/holywell-street-
>>>> strand-looking-west-1900>.

>>>>
>>>> And just in case this helps:
>>>>

>>>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Norman_(artist)
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Norman_(artist)>
>>>> * https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87821929.html

>>>> <https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87821929.html>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 7 August 2026 at 14:58:23 UTC+1 Ray wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I think that red toning is a mistake, bad white point
>>>> or over saturation. I'd like to rework it from this one.
>>>>
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