Thanks to QuelleBooks, I’m obsessed with finding these “Missing Mother” portraits. According to the fascinating and unnerving post on Retronaut, “This was a practice where the mother, often disguised or hiding, often under a spread, holds her baby tightly for the photographer to insure a sharply focused image.” Some are more subtle than others and it’s…
REVIEW: THE SOMNAMBULIST by Essie Fox
Firstly let me say that the genre of the Victorian novel is safe. As anyone who reads my blog has probably noticed, I have a particular penchant for books about ghosts, Victorian England, a country house and a secret. I can’t get enough, it seems. And this one often reminded me of Gaslight. It’s told from…
REVIEW: MRS. ROBINSON’S DISGRACE by Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale has once again uncovered a fascinating story from the ever contradictory Victorian era. Not so very long ago, divorce was nearly impossible (unless you were King Henry VIII, of course). Until 1858, “marriage could only be dissolved by an individual Act of Parliament, at a cost prohibitive to almost all of the population.…
Some Vintage Sketches
While writing book reviews, I often look for images that will illustrate of compliment the post. These are two I didn’t use but I had to share just the same. I also want to give a “shout-out” to treselegant, whose amazing blog led me to research images such as these.
Texts From Jane Eyre | The Hairpin
Wow, this is just stunningly hysterical. Especially for someone who just wrote her masters thesis on this… JANE WHERE HAVE YOU GONE I AM BEREFT AND WITHOUT MY JANE I SHALL SINK INTO ROGUERY i am with my cousins WHICH COUSIN IS IT THE SEXY ONE Please don’t try to talk to me again IT…