Sunday, May 10, 2015

Poe is nowhere, but Bram Stoker's mother is everything!

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Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker I was going to write a blog post today about the mothers of writers in London in the 1890s, but ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Poop in (Victorian) Beards

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Nowadays, when you mention the long beard trend, most people immediately think of hipsters; I still think of the Victorians. With the news t...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Victorian (and pre-Victorian) Pug Cult

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"Blonde and Brunette" by Charles Burton Barber The rise of the pug cult is popularly traced back to when the British found pug...
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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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Monday, April 6, 2015

Cartographic Fictions and the Poverty of Digital Archives

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In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1996), the protagonist lives on a paper street, but did you know that paper streets have actually be...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Lady Meux and Egyptology

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Portrait by James Abbott McNeill Whistler Lady Meux typifies the type of 1890s woman I adore most of all. She was eccentric, incredibly...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Are Men Gay Deceivers?

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Headline from the November 18, 1909 issue of The Republican. Though it sounds funny to our ears now, in the nineteenth century, the term...