Making It On The Victorian Stage – Do You Have What It Takes? And The Right Clothes? Dear Reader, I’m very sorry. I didn’t mean to abandon you, but life was kinda kicking my backside these last months. I am continuing my posts on Victorian theatre. If you recall in the first post, we learned about the various type of productions, the different theatres, rules concerning the...
How to Dress Becomingly in Victorian Mourning The following appeared in Arthur’s Home Magazine published in 1885 in Philadelphia. HOW TO DRESS BECOMINGLY IN MOURNING By Ella Rodman Church. BLACK has been so generally worn for a long time past that it is not always easy to distinguish between those who are in mourning and those who are not. It is...
Illustrations and Instructions for Victorian Hair Dressing Images from The Self-instructor in the Art of Hair Work: Dressing Hair, Making Curls, Switches, Braids, and Hair Jewelry of Every Description, by Mark Campbell, published in 1867. Click on an image to enlarge it. ...
Seclusion During Mourning in Edwardian Times Today I’m excerpting from The Etiquette of Today: A Complete Guide to Correct Manners, and Social Customs in Use Among Educated and Refined People of America, by Marshall Everett, 1902. As long as the crape veil and crape trimmed gown are worn a woman should refrain from participation in all social...
Is Your Victorian Gentleman Sponge-Worthy? Contraception in the Years 1826 – 1891. Part II This post is a continuation of Is Your Victorian Gentleman Sponge-Worthy? Contraception in the Years 1826 – 1891. If you haven’t already, you may want to read that post before continuing. This week I received a copy of What is Love? Richard Carlile’s Philosophy of Sex by M.L. Bush. In this book...
Happy Victorian Halloween The following are excerpts from The Book of Days for 1832. There is perhaps no night in the year which the popular imagination has stamped with a more peculiar character than the evening of the 31st of October, known as All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween. It is clearly a relic...
Is Your Victorian Gentleman Sponge-Worthy? Contraception in the Years 1826 – 1891 I’m doing some major league procrastination today! I didn’t mean to find this information; I bumped into it while looking for something else. Anyway, I think it’s just fascinating. The following is excerpted from The Law of Population: its consequences and its bearing upon human conduct and morals, by Annie Wood Besant, 1878 The...
Late Victorian Fashion From Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1893. Click on an image to enlarge it. ...
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Fun post. I tweeted.
Thanks, @Ella! I hope your new book launch is going well! Congratulations!