Showing posts with label Constance Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constance Wilde. Show all posts
Monday, November 23, 2015

Victorian Teenagers Gone Wild

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The girl in the top left corner has a mischievous face. Throughout history, teenagers have rebelled against their parents. Popular psyc...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

Humans of London (in the 1890s)

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Who isn't occasionally inspired by Humans of New York? Since I've taken a little break from writing recently and been playing with ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Oscar Wilde's Underpants

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde In an effort to shame me for my ad...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

1890s Witches

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle protested the harassment of mediums by comparing it to the antiquated persecution of witches. In 1897, Sigmund ...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

What happened to Oscar's stuff?

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Scholarly article pay little attention to the role my protagonists played in history, one example being Kevin O'Brien's essay: ...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Constance Wilde's Celebrity Crush

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Much is made of Oscar Wilde's affairs of the heart, but his wife also had a bit of a crush. This was by no means an extramarital affair,...
Monday, January 20, 2014

The Weird Magic of 1890s Writers: Enochian Magic

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Practitioners of Enochian magic attempt to evoke the will of spirits or angels. As i wrote this post, I couldn't get the Black Crowes...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

100 Random Things about Oscar Wilde

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In honour of this being my 100th post, I’m sharing 100 things you probably didn’t know about Oscar Wilde. If you knew any of this stuff keep...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Weirdest Cameras of the 1890s

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Off on another tangent tonight, this time it's spy cameras. One of my main characters is a journalist, so, obviously, I was captivated b...
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