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19th century

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This blog offers weekly light reading on various topics relating to the nineteenth century: artists and writers, book-, movie-, and museum reviews, fashion and fads, and more!

Added on: Oct 7th, 2007
Country: Netherlands
Language: English

Author: basje
Listed in: History Arts
Tags: history costumes romantic victorian 19th century gothic literature

Recent Posts

Victorian nature lithographs & a little Victorian party!

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 07:12 in 19th century

I would like to draw your attention to this post over at The Grand Tour, showing some beautiful coloured lithographs from the 1860s. Also, it’s time for a little Victorian party! Recently, this blog has welcomed its 200.000th visitor. I’...
Anton Mauve

Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 07:08 in 19th century

I went to a Anton Mauve exhibition in the Springer museum. Mauve was a nineteenth-century painter, painting Dutch weather and rural scenes. I was especially charmed by his depictions of farmer’s gardens. The museum’s website, do vis...
Victorian Halloween!

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 04:04 in halloween, victorian, 19th century

A bit of a Halloween spirit with this cute Victorian witch! (Her dress seems inspired on 18th century Rococo dresses and paniers, how intriguing! If anyone wants to analyse that, please feel free!) ...
Jane Austen’s Emma (or BBC’s Emma!)

Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 05:16 in fashion, Tv Series, bbc, drama, costume, victorian, austen, emma, 19th century

By accident I caught the second episode of BBC’s recent adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma this weekend. It’s beautiful! I didn’t catch the story at all but sat for an hour, fascinated by the beautiful costumes, settings, and film...
Learning to knock like a gentleman.

Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 08:20 in 19th century

Here is a quote from an article called “British Politeness and the Progress of Western Manners: An Eighteenth-Century Enigma” by Paul Langford. It’s eighteenth century but it speaks mostly of visitors to Great Britain after the peac...
Glass, greenhouses, & Dahlias

Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 04:22 in flowers, gardening, greenhouses, victorian, dahlia, 19th century

This is from a book I read called Tuinieren Door de Jaren Heen (I can’t find the English title for this! ) by A. Huxley and M. Michael. In England between 1695 and 1699 there was a tax on glass objects. In 1746 it was re-instated, but at that t...