Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Victorian False Eyelashes

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"The beauty of the eye lies in its expression, whether it has borrowed its color from the corn flower, or shines like the black diamon...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Jobs for Women: the Angel in the Workforce

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For 465 years, from 1377 to 1835 [the Ship and Turtle Tavern] was run by a succession of widows. During the Victorian era, the Ship and...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Greenaway Vogue

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Kate Greenaway was the author and artist of Victorian childhood by the 1890s. She drew the idyllic images of Victorian children that we t...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

How to Eat Like a Victorian

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At the end of one month, I plan out the details of mine and my husband's menu for the next month. Part way through Thanksgiving weekend,...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

10 Steps to Hosting Your Own Victorian Seance

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Belief in the evocation of the spirits of the dead is as old as Humanity. At one period of the world's history it was called Thaumaturg...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Three Common Victorian Baby-Killers

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I wouldn't have survived infancy in the Victorian Era. There were truly bizarre ways of dying in the 1890s, but you could also die ...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

The Feejee Mermaid and the Fur-bearing Trout

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Freak shows and taxidermy: these two trends coincided with horrifying results in the Victorian era. The popularity of freak shows saw ...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Victorian Clowns and Clowning

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Symptoms of coulrophobia can include sweating, nausea, feelings of dread, fast heartbeat, crying or screaming, and anger at being placed in...
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