#Victorian
Today's the day, publication of Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives by ReaktionBooks. It's taken 20 years of research in archives in Britain and the US but I think the book is better for not having been rushed. #DecadentWomen https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/decadent-women
#DecadentWomen #Victorian #Decadence #Decadent
In the Studio by Alfred Holst Tourrier (British artist, lived 1836-1892). Pipe and book - hard at work.
#Artist, #Pipe #Book #Relaxing #Reading #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #FineArt
Need something to watch? Have I got a list for you. The #JaneAusten and #Bronte list of streaming movies and mini-series is updated! Links across all major platforms! Enjoy!
https://exitpursuedbyabear.net/streaming-jane-austen-and-the-brontes/
#AmReading #AmWriting #Regency @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #PrideAndPrejudice #SenseandSensibility #NorthangerAbbey #Persuasion #Emma #WutheringHeights #JaneEyre #Victorian #Streaming #Netflix #Hulu #Max #MansfieldPark
Rare Bronte artefacts on show in new exhibition
https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/23769598.rare-bronte-artefacts-show-new-exhibition/
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #CharlotteBronte #Victorian #CharlotteBronte #EmilyBronte #AnneBronte
Ship on a Stormy Ocean (1852) by Marcus Larson (Swedish artist, lived 1825–1864). Batten down the hatches - there's a storm blowin'! ⚓ 🤢
#MarineArt #MaritimeArt #Ship #Boat #Sailing #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #FineArt #Storm #Clouds
Ready for the fancy dress ball (1879) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian artist, lived 1823–1906).
The artist was at the peak of his career and highly successful. As can be guessed by the magnificence of this "Chinese Boudoir" room in his fabulous home on the Rue des Martyrs, Paris.
#magnificence #Chinese #fabulous #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #FancyDress #Ball #Dance #HighSociety
Portrait of May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton (English artist, lived 1830–1896). May (aged 15) is painted life-size, dressed in dark colours apart from the bright red sash. The fallen tree represents mortality. Hampshire countryside.
#Autumn #Fall #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #Youth #Hampshire
5/5 Crystal Palace Subway The final shot from the subway - still under restoration but the ceiling is looking fabulous.
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#photography #architecture #Victorian #CrystalPalace
A Merry Heart Goes A Long Way (1912) by Thomas Benjamin Kennington (English artist, lived 1856–1916).
'If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.' ― J.R.R. Tolkien.
#Humour #Happiness #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #FineArt #Youth #age #generations
Read the first reviews of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea.
https://lithub.com/read-the-first-reviews-of-jean-rhys-wide-sargasso-sea/
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #CharlotteBronte #Victorian #JaneEyre
What was it like to bake a #Victorian era dessert in Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo region during the early 1900s? 🤔
This video from Parcs #Canada takes us on a journey back in time, featuring the making of Cottage Pudding and Lemon #sauce. The #recipe is from The Berlin Cook Book, a Canadian #book published in 1906. 🇨🇦🍋
👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/cottage-pudding-lemon-sauce-victorian-era-recipe
4/5 Crystal Palace Subway
Materials ready for further restoration.
All photos this week taken with the 7-14mm f4 #fourthirds lens with an mmf-3 adapter on my Olympus EM1iii.
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#photography #architecture #Victorian #CrystalPalace
The Ball (1906) by Karl Wilda (Austrian artist, lived 1854–1907).
'Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.' ― Voltaire.
#Ball #Dance #Happiness #FashionHistory #Pink #Music #VintageStyle #VintageFashion #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #FineArt #Youth
The Piano Lesson (1896) by Edmund Blair Leighton (English artist, lived 1852–1922).
' I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill '
Jane Austen, Emma.
#Music #Piano #Lesson #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #FineArt #Youth
This ‘#JaneEyre' enthusiast invites you to treat your favorite books as sacred text
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #CharlotteBronte #Victorian
Hypatia (1889) by Julius Kronberg (Swedish artist, lived 1850–1921). Mathematician, astronomer and philosopher from Alexandria.
#Mathematician #astronomer #philosopher #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #FineArt #HistoryArt #Alexandria #Writer
3/5 Crystal Palace Subway Showing some of the work done to restore the subway. These stairs will provide access from the park side of the road. (Once the gateway to the Crystal Palace.)
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Orphan (c. 1879) by James Tissot (French artist, lived 1836–1902). The artist’s companion, Kathleen Newton, and her daughter served as the models. Autumnal art.
#Autumn #Fall #Leaves #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #Child #Leaves
North Cape by Moonlight (1848 or 1853) by Peder Balke (Norwegian artist, lived 1804–87). Moonlit marine art.
#MarineArt #MaritimeArt #Boat #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #FineArt #Moon #Moonlit #Clouds
Rare sighting of a good-natured joke about a German professor found in a nineteenth-century British #newspaper. Enjoy!
Source: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3786502/3786505/44/
2/5 Crystal Palace subway
I had to lie on the floor to get this shot. It's stitched together from about 12 single images which is why it curves away at the edges.
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#photography #architecture #Victorian #CrystalPalace
The Red Book (c. 1901) by John Lavery (Irish artist, lived 1856–1941). The sitter is Mary Auras, here engrossed in a book.
#VintageStyle #Reader #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #book #booklover
🎙️ George Eliot: A #BBC #Radio #Drama Collection
The Mill on the Floss - 1991
Daniel Deronda - 1999
Silas Marner - 2011
Middlemarch - 2019
Adam Bede - 2021
#GeorgeEliot "was influenced by the writings of #JohnStuartMill and read all of his major works as they were published." [Wikipedia]
https://archive.org/details/GeorgeEliotBBCr4
#bbcradio4 #audio #audiodrama #victorian #literature #books #bookstodon #Middlemarch #writing
Portrait of Herbert Barnard John Everett by William Orpen (Irish artist, lived 1878–1931). The sitter "John Everett" was an English artist. Apparently there are more paintings by him in UK public art collections than any other artist. No wonder he looks so pleased with himself.
#victorian #victodons #FashionHistory #Art #Artists #Gent #Gentleman #TopHat #VintageFashion #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt
The Lady of Shalott (1888) by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917). The plight of an unfortunate young woman, based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from the Arthurian legend. Pre-Raphaelite style.
#Arthurian #Shalott #Astolat #Autumn #Fall #River #Boat #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #FineArt #PreRaphaelite #Doomed #Youth
The Amulet (1871) by Emile Auguste Pinchart (French artist, lived 1842-1920). I wonder if Edith Nesbit ever saw this?
#Jewellery #Jewelry #FashionHistory #Fashion #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt
1/5 Crystal Palace subway
built to provide passage between the now closed Crystal Palace high level station and the now burnt down #CrystalPalace under what is now the A212.
It's currently being restored and I went to an Open Day a couple of weeks ago.
It was very busy so I used Photoshop AI to get rid of the people and some of the distractions, but the ceiling is the showstopper and this is as I saw it.
This is a multishot hdr panorama.
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#photography #architecture #Victorian
Matches!—buy a box of matches of a poor girl!
From "London Cries & Public Edifices" written & illustrated by John Leighton (aka Luke Limner), London: 1851 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/matches/
Cats' meat!—dogs' meat!
From "London Cries & Public Edifices" written & illustrated by John Leighton (aka Luke Limner), London: 1851 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cats-meat/
Umbrellas to mend!—any old ones to sell!
From "London Cries & Public Edifices" written & illustrated by John Leighton (aka Luke Limner), London: 1851 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/umbrellas-mend/
Frontispiece from "London Cries & Public Edifices" written & illustrated by John Leighton (aka Luke Limner), London: 1851 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cries-london-frontispiece/
Self Portrait (c. 1896) by Konstanty Górski (Polish artist, lived 1868–1934). A stylish gent.
#artist #SelfPortrait #Style #fashion #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #interior #PolishArtist
The struggle.
John Leech, from "Colin Clink," vol.1 by Charles Hooton, London: 1841 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/struggle/
Miss Sowersoft’s attention to Mr. Palethorpe.
John Leech, from "Colin Clink," vol.1 by Charles Hooton, London: 1841 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/attention/
Colin’s first interview with Mr. Palethorpe.
John Leech, from "Colin Clink," vol.1 by Charles Hooton, London: 1841 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/first-interview/
Cat Family - Mother and Kittens by Marie Yvonne Laur (French artist, lived 1879-1943). Excellent draughtsmanship, playful, rich colouring.
#cats #caturday #kittens #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #interior
The Lady of the Lake from Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) by Thomas Malory. The artist is William Russell Flint (Scottish, lived 1880-1969).
#KingArthur #Excalibur #Arthurian #victorian #victodon #victodons #victorianart #VictorianEra #victoriana #sword #mythology #legend #illustration
The Andalusian Fates (c. 1910-13) by José Villegas Cordero (Spanish artist, lived 1848–1921). Three brightly dressed young women representing the three fates – Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos – who spin, measure, and cut the strands of fate which represent human life in Greek Mythology.
#spanish #spanishart #greekmyth #GreekMythology #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianEra #FineArt #green #red #blue
A Domestic Incident (between 1850-70) by Jacques-Eugene Feyen (French artist, lived 1815-1908). Butter fingers 😔 .
#maid #servant #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #interior #FashionHistory
The Swan Maidens (1894) by Walter Crane (English artist, lived 1845-1915). The swan maiden and her shapeshifting sisters, bathing and frolicing in the water - defying domestication.
#Folklore #Mythology #Folktale #victorian #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Shapeshifters #Victoriana #FineArt #Swans
From the pile of papers researched in many archives across the UK and US it has been a long journey to the finished book, but Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives is to be published on October 1 by Reaktion Books. #Books #Publishing #Decadent Women #Decadence #1890s #Victorian
The Little Foot Page (1905) by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (English artist, lived 1872-1945). Dressed in male clothing and about to cut her long hair so she can pass as a boy. Her dress and wimple are discarded in the foreground. ‘Pre-Raphaelite revivalist’.
#fashion #FashionHistory #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #Victoriana #FineArt #PreRaphaelite
Why period drama TV crews love famous Yorkshire hall backdrop
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/period-drama-tv-crews-love-27565118
#CharlotteBronte #Shirley #WutheringHeights @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Victorian #AmWriting #AmReading
World of dreams (1876) by Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (English artist, lived 1852–1909). Note the use of mirrors and windows. Nurse, nanny or mother? 🤔
#Sleep #Tired #Exhaustion #reading #books #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #victoriana #fineart #nurse #nanny #mother #BookLover #FashionHistory
Sleep and His Half Brother Death (1874) by John William Waterhouse (English artist, lived 1849–1917). A reference to the brother Greek gods Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death). The artist painted this after both his own younger brothers died of tuberculosis.
#sleep #death #victorian #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #victoriana #FineArt #PreRaphaelite #brothers #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Mythology
Autunumn preparation in Witchy house
#autunumn #fall #pumpkin #ink #victorian #horror #mushrooms #nature #watercolor #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots
Artefacts belonging to the #Bronte siblings to go on show
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23769602.rare-bronte-artefacts-show-new-exhibition/
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #CharlotteBronte #Victorian #EmilyBronte #AnneBronte
Young bookworm (1890) by Ilya Galkin (1860-1915).
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
#reading #books #victorian #FashionHistory #victodons #VictorianArt #VictorianEra #victoriana #fineart #BookLover
Kitten on sofa. Ca. 1865. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage #victorian #kitten https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/107BAB
"Kitty playing 'Hide and Seek'" 1871. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage #victorian https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1078JA
#comic #comicstrip #Funnies #Comics #Webcomic #webcomics #art
So this is the prototype of the new strip I have spent the last couple of days working on.
All constructive criticism is welcome.
I used #Edwardian and #Victorian slang for this episode.
not sure if the humor comes across though.
Process of rolling armor-plates for Her Majesty's ships at the Atlas Steelworks, Sheffield.
From "The Illustrated London News," vol. 39, London: 1861 #illustration #periodical #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/rolling-armor-plates/
#crystalpalace #crystalpalacepark #localhistory #london #subway #victorian
Some shots from today's open day at the Crystal Palace Subway linking the terminus station under The Parade roadway as a gateway to the Palace.
The station closed in 1954 and the Palace burnt down in 1936 but the subway remains and is being restored to its former glory. Hopefully completed later this year as an example of how he architect wowed the visitor while carefully managing the crowd to avoid crushing.
The last vestige of old Westminster Bridge.
From "The Illustrated London News," vol. 39, London: 1861 #illustration #Victorian #London https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/vestige-westminster-bridge/
The hand of glory.
John Tenniel, from "The Ingoldsby legends" by Thomas Ingoldsby, (Richard Harris Barham), New York: [1848?] #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hand-glory/
Portrait of a Woman in Velvet Pelisse (<1850) by József Borsos (Hungarian artist, lived 1821-1883). What fashionable ladies wore on a cold night in Budapest.
#fashion #fashionhistory #victorian #victodon #victodons #victorianart #victorianera #victoriana #fineart
A short manifesto about the importance, for students of the Victorian period, of finding out who wrote what in 19th-c. magazines and newspapers: https://www.curranindex.org/news/17/ #bookhistory #victorian
Curran Fellowships support research on 19th-c. British magazines and newspapers, and they have been a boon to scholars for years. All are eligible to apply. Applications open mid-September, due by mid-November. https://rs4vp.org/awards/curran-fellowship/ #victorian #bookhistory
A Review of 9 Summer Books from Classics to RomComs
https://www.theteenmagazine.com/a-review-of-9-summer-books-from-classics-to-romcoms
#JaneEyre #CharlotteBronte #Victorian #AmReading #AmWriting
@bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
Uncovering Edinburgh’s Hidden Victorian History—One Doorway at a Time
Standford's Continuing Ed has an upcoming online class “#JaneEyre and #WutheringHeights." It begins on Tuesday September 26 and runs for six weeks. The class is 7 p.m. PST (10 p.m. EST) to 8:50 p.m. PST (11:50 p.m. EST). Cost is $405 for the class and videos will be made available. You can find more information here: https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/liberal-arts-and-sciences/jane-eyre-and-wuthering-heights/20231_LIT-52
#CharlotteBronte #EmilyBronte @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Victorian #AmWriting #AmReading
📷 Victorian British Library, England
#AbandonedPlaces #UrbanExploration #Photography #Urbex #England #Library #AbandonedThings #Victorian
#PennedPossibilities 61 — Write about something your MC frequently forgets
In the WIP Mrs Ashston thoroughly approves of the Ten Commandments, is an enthusiastic church-goer, gives a lot to charity, and is pretty ropey on putting most of the other commandments into practice. She believes in God and wouldn't ever kill anyone. Lying, cheating, stealing, adultery with men or women, envy - yup.
#amwriting #writerslife #writersofmastodon #reader #Victorian #fraud #spiritualism #murder
#Bronte Festival of Women's Writing reveals line-up
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23762827.bronte-festival-womens-writing-reveals-line-up/
#WutheringHeights #JaneEyre #CharlotteBronte #EmilyBronte #Victorian #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
📷 Victorian British Library, England
#AbandonedPlaces #UrbanExploration #Photography #Urbex #Photography #England #Photographer #Victorian #arcitecturephotography #arcitecture #library #skylight
📷 Victorian British Library, England
#AbandonedPlaces #UrbanExploration #Photography #Urbex #Photography #England #Photographer #Victorian #arcitecturephotography #arcitecture #library
This time is for me.
I close my eyes and relax
In a state of calm.
Recumbent framed art print by Steve Henderson -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/recumbent-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
#bath #bedroom #sofa #home #relax #peace #calm #weekend #freedom #sleep #ayearforart #buyintoart #mastodon #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #romantic #romance #elegant #stevehenderson #art #artwork #bedroomdecor #bathroomdecor #Victorian #woman #beauty #femme #model #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #thoughts #poetrycommunity
So, I've been working with data about the three-volume novel, and I wrote up a first post:
https://cforster.com/2023/08/novel-lengths/
Come for the unexplained reference to an "electrical word counter," stay for the very modest contribution to literary and book history. (SPOILER: The 3-Volume Novel got shorter over its life.)
Currently reading: Kate Strasdin's "The Dress Diary | Secrets of a #Victorian woman's wardrobe".
It's fascinating in many ways. But she has a whole chapter on #BobbinLace that nearly made me weep. She has made lace, and this diary came to her from the lace community. It was lovely to read.
#Honiton #TextileHistory #FashionHistory #Bookstodon
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/05/15/the-dress-diary-of-mrs-anne-sykes/
The birthplace of the #Brontë sisters could soon be opening to the public
#AmReading @bookstodon @histodons #books #history #Bookstodon #JaneEyre #CharlotteBronte #EmilyBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
Waiting takes patience.
It is not easy or fun.
But we all do it.
Lady in Waiting greeting card -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lady-in-waiting-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card
#haiku #poetry #poem #waiting #greetingcard #art #artist #artwork #stevehenderson #mastoart #mastodon #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #writing #writingcommunity #thoughts #sunset #twilight #ocean #coast #beach #magical #lavender #glow #lights #buyintoart #ayearforart #nature #outside #sea #seaside #house #home #victorian #glow #gold #woman #beauty #waiting
The bright red Herd Groyne Lighthouse, built in 1882, still acts as a navigational aid for vessels entering and leaving the River Tyne in the North East of England.
Personally, I always think it looks like a Jules Verne version of NASA's Apollo Lunar Landing Module (maybe that's where they got the idea!).
#England #lighthouse #coast #NorthSea #Victorian #historic #landscape #photography
A banker of #Victorian era.
#ai #aiart #StableDiffusion #scifi #fantasy #anthro #animal #steampunk #fennec
NOW AVAILABLE: The House of Ash (print and e-book)
My newest gothic horror novella is now out (woot!). 'The House of Ash' is a standalone vampire fiction book that's set in an AU Victorian England. There's a romantic subplot in the book, but the primary focus is the family matriarch and her efforts at protecting her blind grandson.
For more detailed info on the moodboard (attached to this toot), content warnings, etc., please check out my site's gallery page (link below).
Length: 50,000 words
@bookstodon @mmromance @gayromance @lgbtqbookstodon
#GothicHorror #GothicRomance #GayFiction #GayRomance #VampireFiction #Vampires #Victorian #HistoricalFantasy #Occult #Supernatural
Bookstore:
https://books2read.com/b/4jNNPl
Gallery page:
https://haydenthorne.com/houseofashgallery
Tu t'en repentiras, Colin.
George du Maurier, from "Wives and Daughters," vol. 1 by Elizabeth Gaskell, London: 1866 #illustration #art #Victorian https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/colin/
Abandoned church in England 🇬🇧
I climbed up behind the very tall altar, balancing on an old radiator and onto the narrow window ledge. This gave a very interesting vantage point to shoot my photos from, while balancing and shooting over the top of the altar.
Kinda looks like I am hovering several metres of the floor though, guess it offers a different perspective 🤣
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/religious/evangelist-church-england/
#abandonedchurch #england #church #architecturephotograhy #Victorian #gothicarchitecture #photography
One Twitter rando called these pics "highly sexualized"
Is that any different from "very sexy"?
#SeriousQuestion #NeedInfo #Puritan #PuritanRevival #SexPhobia #SexNegative #SexualRevolution #Sexualized #Prude #CounterRevolution #NeoPuritan #Victorian #Sexualize #Sexualization
If "sexualization" exists, we think it's a bad thing *why*?
#Puritan #PuritanRevival #SexPhobia #SexNegative #SexualRevolution #Sexualized #Prude #CounterRevolution #NeoPuritan #Victorian #Sexualize #Sexualization #StopTheHysteria #StopNeoPuritanism
My first toot!
If you are a #JaneAusten or #Bronte fan, I curate a list of over 100 streaming Austen and Bronte period pieces found here: https://exitpursuedbyabear.net/streaming-jane-austen-and-the-brontes/ (updated quarterly).
If you're a fan of period tv shows and mini-series, I curate a list of nearly 300 streaming mini-series / TV found here: https://exitpursuedbyabear.net/projects/put-a-cravat-on-it/ (updated yearly). Both link to streaming services it is available on. Enjoy!
#Regency #Movies #History #Victorian @histodons @bookstodon #romancelandia
@shauny Not an allegory I've ever seen posited before but one that can fit I'm sure.
My review here of a story I didn't like at all on broadcast but totally re-evaluated on rewatch.
https://doctorwhohistoryoftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/1894-deep-breath/
"James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most important mathematical physicists of all time, after only Newton and Einstein. Within a relatively short lifetime he made enormous contributions to science which this lecture will survey." https://youtu.be/v40OcJ7rfSE #Youtube #Video #History #Science #Lecture #Physics #Maths #Math #Mathematics #victorian #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
I'm not new to mastodon but I am new to this server so perhaps an(other) introduction is in order? I teach #Victorian literature and detective fiction at #Dalhousie. My research interests include ethical criticism; historiography; and 19th- and 20th-C women writers of 'novels of purpose' (which is what I am focusing on in my current projects).
I've been writing my blog Novel Readings since 2007. I post there about things I read, about my teaching, about academia and criticism more generally, and sometimes about personal things.
When I'm not reading, I like to crochet and do cross-stitch, both of which are good ways to keep the hands busy while listening to bookish podcasts.
If the bird site really does implode, I'll miss it a lot, but it's the community I've found there that matters to me, and maybe it will survive in new spaces - like this one!
This iconic #indigenous themed display in #kingsdomain #melbourne #australia is breathtaking, for mine.
The respect for aboriginal rights and indigenous equality is strong in these parts.
What better way to celebrate such vital aspects of modern Australia than to display such magnificent art within the heartland of the city’s botanic and recreation areas?
The eyes of these children are filled with hope, happiness and compassion.
I have a strong sense the voice of a nation is making lasting strides, for the better.
For ‘ALL’.
♥️💛🖤
#victorian #melbourne #narrm #Australia #muralart #murals #mural #mastoart #art #aesthetichedonist #makesmehappy
#repect #treaty #treatynow #indigenous #indigenousvoice #aboriginal #sacred #ulurustatementfromtheheart #voiceofparliament #voteyes
Did you know that #Native #Americans showed up the #Victorian Brits with their #swimming ability?
In 1844, a #British swimming competition had two #indigenous #athletes (’Flying Gull’ & ‘Tobacco’) join.
‘Flying Gull’ swam the 40m length pool in just 30 sec & won.
The front crawl he used was unknown to the #Europeans.
The stroke was swiftly deemed barbaric & unrefined by the press & the Brits refused to do anything but breaststroke (& later sidestroke) until 1873.
Character expression sheet for my personal project.
My latest wee #history #video is about the life and work of John Faed, #artist , eldest of the Faed family of #artists and Gatehouse resident and Councillor.
A precocious talent from a very young age, John was a successful and lauded painter of the #Victorian era.
Grove St.
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A light blue, two-story classic gingerbread Victorian home with a red door stands against a blue sky between two light olive-green houses on Grove St. in San Francisco.
It's alive! The 2023 conference “#Witchcraft and the #Supernatural in Belief, Practice, and Depiction”!
Online. 26th-27th August. All day to hit different time zones. Talks recorded so you don't miss anything. Get discounted tickets for the first month.
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Happy birthday to #entomologist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940), here in my #linocut with many #butterflies from her collection.
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian #lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, …
NOW AVAILABLE: The Heart of Ameinias (print and e-book)
The first sequel to my 'Ghosts and Tea' epistolary fiction series is now out (yay!). The moodboard attached to this toot, by the way, looks much more serious than the book's tone.
Length: 50,000 words
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It's been AGES since I did a bonus Q&A episode on the #podcast. Had a few msgs about what will happen w My Love Letter Time Machine when we get to the end of the letters? I have more paperwork (needs some research - need to get up ot #Sheffield and #Middlesbrough this Summer) but I'd love to know what you'd like to hear me cover more in the podcast! More #Victorian #History? More of the family characters? Newspaper events of the day? Other people's love #letters? Can't wait to hear from you.
(detail from The Love Letter, Toulmouche.
Public Domain)
I visited the cathedral of poo (the Victorian Crossness Sewage Pumping station) today. Marvellous piece of engineering to get London clean of sewage.
This is what I've come up with for my Anne Lister inspired #Victorian outfit. I feel like a #genderqueer Time Lord 🎩
The cravat doesn't work with the collarless black shirt, so I can't decide between white shirt and cravat, or black shirt and neck scarf. I didn't pack the pink scarf in the end though - I found a black one which goes better.
What do you think?
It's super rare to have both sides of a correspondence - these are the love letters of my great great grandparents, Janie Warburton and Fred Shepherd. I keep saying there are over 200 but I've never counted them. For the last 18 months I've been turning them into the #Victorian #History #podcast My Love Letter Time Machine. They date from 1878 to 1882. Fred and Janie were just ordinary working class people from Sheffield, Yorkshire, they also had a bit of spark - the wit in these pages cracks me up all the time.
Please come to 3 #bookhistory lectures next week in Philadelphia & remotely: Monday, on how #Victorian masters laid hands on books; Tuesday, on what Victorian servants refused to read; Thursday, on #lockdown reading. https://www.library.upenn.edu/event/reading-from-home. Slides feature @shannonmattern @wynkenhimself @mkirschenbaum @kateozment @ryancordell @mlmcgill @agoldst @whitneytrettien.
‘I’m Genuinely #Fearful’: #GeorgieStone Calls For Greater #Protection For #Trans #australians
Last month, about 30 people from the #NationalSocialistMovement (#Nazi) performed the #NaziSalute on the steps of #Victorian #parliament during #PosieParker's #antitrans rights rally in #Melbourne
https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/2023/04/11348529/georgie-stone-trans-rights
23) EMILY BRONTË (1818-1848),
With dark family secrets, haunting pasts, brutal characters, suggestions of spirits, and foreboding landscapes, Emily Brontë's only novel, 'Wuthering Heights', is steeped with gothic imagery and motifs
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22) VIOLET HUNT (1862-1942),
Author and a founder of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. Hunt wrote two collections of gothic texts: 'Tales of the Uneasy' and 'More Tales of the Uneasy'
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21) EDITH NESBIT (1858-1924),
Though often remembered for her children’s books, Nesbit wrote several gothic tales. Many were published in her collections ‘Grim Tales’ (1893), 'Something Wrong’ (1893) and ‘Fear’ (1910)
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20) CHARLOTTE BRONTË, (1816-1855),
Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' (1847) contains various tropes of gothic fiction with its family secrets, gloomy settings, and suggestions of supernatural horrors
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19) MARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH (1839-1921),
Although best remembered as a children’s author, Molesworth also wrote 2 collections of stories aimed at adults: ‘Four Ghost Stories’ (1888) and ‘Uncanny Tales’ (1896)
#WomensHistoryMonth #ReadMoreWomen #gothic #literature #fiction #history #story #victorian #horror #fantasy #histodons #bookstodon