women could purchase Portuguese Female Pills (an abortion pill) or Madame Restell’s Preventive Powders, but it is unclear how effective these were. The French had already invented the condom, fashioned of rubber or skin, as they are today. ...
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Both of these productions are inventing stuff that Jane Austen didn’t have in mind. Lady Catherine is rich and snooty but not cluelessly old-fashioned. It’s a relatively new idea that she should be outdated — 19th-century editions of the novel showed Lady Catherine in clothes contemporary ...
“Perhaps you’ll think me old-fashioned, but I cannot help respecting the art of housekeeping.” “Oh, so do I in its place,” replied Miss Fenimer. “My maid does the whole thing capitally. But let me give you a test. Think of the very best housekeeper you ever met. Would you ...
Antique Fashion Print from Germany with Women Wearing Dresses and Hats, 1893 H 11.42 in W 15.95 in D 0 in Bold Stylized Painting by Charles Levier of Fashionable French Women in Hats H 40 in W 49.25 in D 2 in Robin Morris WAITING FOR THE BOYS Signed Lithograph, Women Wide Brim Hats, ...
old-fashioned artistic ideas about the representation of women proved to be tenacious. by the early 20thcentury, a relatively well-established visual tradition had e into existence that treated women as objects that could be consumed by the male gaze. numerous panies, both foreign and native, had...
There is a little spicy-smelling yellow flower growing in clusters on a bush, in old-fashioned gardens I think they call it “clove” or a “flowering currant.”The smell of it inevitably never fails to take me back into a little playhouse I made once under such a bush, j...
Now and again a few customers came in; a lady, then two others appeared, the shop retaining its musty odour, its half light, by which the old-fashioned business, good-natured and simple, seemed to be weeping at its desertion. But what most interested Denise was The Ladies' Paradise ...