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How I would dress for Christmas in the 19th century

Merry Christmas kids.

#christmas #christmas fashion #victorian christmas #victorian #19th century fashion #fashion plates #fashion #dresses #victorian fashion #you lick honey from a thorn indeed #christmas dress

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soullessvictorians · 2 years

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Gibbous Fashions

#gibbous fashions #collar #wreck of the day #love me for the chaos i've become

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1920s German male doll

#1920s #doll #antique #love me for the chaos i've become

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Rosa May (1855-1911/1912) Born to Irish immigrants in Pennsylvania, USA, Rosa’s childhood was unhappy. Her father beat her for having intelligence and imagination and told her she was worthless. Some additional unknown trauma also happened to Rosa in her early life. She fled home at 16 and ran to NYC. She began working as a prostitute there and saved money to move West. Rosa moved through Colorado and Idaho, working along the way as the need demanded, before ending up in Virginia City, Nevada in 1873.

Experienced in sex work, pretty, kind, generous and classy, Rosa was just what the men of Virginia City were hoping for. A mining boom meant that there were plenty of men with money in their pockets and The Brick House brothel was the place to spend a lot of that money. The Brick House was one of the most famous houses in the West and for 20 years, Rosa worked there, occasionally freelancing out to other nearby towns.

The madam of The Brick House, Cad Thompson, was friends with Rosa. Cad was confident where Rosa was insecure. Rosa was friendly with her fellow workers and responsible. Soon, Cad was leaving Rosa in charge of the brothel while she was away.

In 1877, Rosa fell in love with a worthless man named Ernest Marks. Ernest used her constantly for money and often viciously beat her. Despite this, Rosa lived with him on and off, continuing to work as a prostitute to support them, until sometime in the early 1880s, when he dumped her and left town.

Rosa’s days at The Brick House were also numbered. The ore near Virginia City had run out and so too had the miners. Cad sold The Brick House for $20 in 1892. She had paid $3,200 for it twenty years earlier.

Rosa was in her late thirties and most men wanted younger women. She could still work the smaller towns in the area, but she was tired of roaming around. Instead, she chose to move to Bodie, California. The town was 90% men, with few other working girls. It was a rough town, with hard winters, hard drinking and nightly murders. But Ernest was thought to be living there and it seems Rosa may have still had feelings for him. Rosa may have laughed when she saw that the Red Light District of Bodie was called Angel’s Roost and stood between Virgin Alley and Maiden Lane

In 1893, Rosa purchased a house and resumed sex work. She stayed in Bodie for the next 20 years, even as the town declined and dwindled away. By 1900, she may have been the only working girl. Rosa was well known to everyone in town and she walked the streets, picking up clients, until the end. She died in either late 1911 or early 1912. The cause is not recorded.

Despite her many years in the town and her kindness, because she was a sex worker, Rosa was not buried in the cemetery with the other ‘Christians’. As a result, her grave has been lost. Visitors to Bodie can visit a grave said to be hers but there is no evidence it is anything but a tourist attraction.

Like many other sex workers in the Old West, people have tried to attach the ‘hooker with a heart of gold’ story to her, claiming that she nursed sick miners during an epidemic before dying of it herself. There is no evidence of an epidemic that winter. Moreover, Rosa does not need to redeem herself to be worthy of memory.

Rosa May worked a hard profession all her life. She must have been a tough woman but her letters indicate she remained kind despite her rough life.

You are not forgotten, sister. #sexworkisrealwork

#rosa may #old west #prostitute #sex work #sex work is real work #victorian #19th century #american #1800s #the brick house #wild wild west

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soullessvictorians · 2 years

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#are you alive?#or just existing #the many ways a person can die but still be alive #text #existing

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I wanna fuck you

You don’t have the money, honey.

#asks

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Naomi Campbell by Anton Corbijn

#the many ways a person can die but still be alive #naomi campbell #black and white #woc #poc #woc models #poc models

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soullessvictorians · 2 years

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LIBRA

You might be gorgeous but it’s how your charm comes out of your mouth that makes you so irresistible. It’s all in the seductive and alluring way you speak. When coupled with your physical attributes, this results in making you memorable to your partners long after they’ve met — and bedded you.

#zodiac signs #zodiac #libra #you rang?#hottest quality #charm #gorgeous #irresistible #seduction #that's me #follow me boy!

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