Rich Victorians lived in large houses that were well heated and clean. Children got a good education either by going away to school or having a governess who taught them at home (this is usually how girls were educated). Wealthy peoplecould also afford to buy beautiful clothes. All women in...
northern France. However, ordinary life was not good enough for Eugène-François. By fourteen, he had sold off the family’s finest china to finance his quest for adventure. He ran away, heading for America. Unable to afford the voyage, he joined a travelling...
Victorians didn’t care about matching. In fact the more mismatched your collection the better. Each piece of china should have its own story. You might have bought it at a high end auction or found it in a dusty corner of a secondhand shop. What matters is that you own it now, and ...
This book is about a family suddenly left to cope alone after the death of their mother: Max (foreign languages student), Asta (waiting to take up a scholarship to art school) and Thea (training for ballet) Hartrich. Their much younger half-sister Van Macdonald is at a High School. ...
Illuminating, comic and touching, Anny reads like a novel, presenting a unique portrait of the rich literary world that formed the bridge between the Victorians and Bloomsbury. 作者简介:Henrietta Garnett is the great-grand-daughter of Leslie Stephen and Julia Jackson. The author of several short...
I haven’t answered all of those questions, but I think I’ve figured out the flowers, thanks to those pesky Victorians and their need for subtle communication. It was not easy finding all of these flowers. Honestly, I scoured the local craft stores and then ended up ordering most of ...
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians. —H. P. Lovecraft 78 Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the be...
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infrastructural systems, from Andrew Blum’sTubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internetto Ian Bogost’sAlien Phenomenology. The compulsion for describing and making infrastructure “visible” makes for a vast and rich domain; still, as Mattern notes, “the ambitious intentions to “make ...
We have always been fascinated by the butterfly. The Victorians caught them in huge nets and pinned them under glass. They wore butterfly motifs as jewellery, in their hair and on their clothing. They believed that the butterfly symbolised the soul. ...