#Genteel

[vox-anglosphere]

Edwardian ladies board a taxi in London's Paddington Station - 1910

#Paddington Station #Old London #Edwardian era #Gilded Age #vintage photo #romantic travel #genteel #taxicab #nostalgia

[shotbyshe]

Words of the Day

anathema: 

A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication. 

A vehement denunciation; a curse.

One that is cursed or damned.

phaeton: A light, four-wheeled open carriage, usually drawn by a pair of horses.

genteel: 

Refined or polite, often in an affected way.

Typical or characteristic of the upper class.

Elegantly stylish or fashionable.

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“She is the anathema to violence.” (Love & Death)

Reading Jane Austen recently.

#Words of the Day #words #definitions #language #anathema #phaeton #genteel #pride and prejudice #love and death #jane austen #poetry #love #hbo #tv shows #media

[richworldbrands]

#blogger #bloggerstyle #blogpost #bloggersofinstagram #blogwriting #combo #ComboDeal #Amazon #flipkart #socks #husskinz #instep #Genteel #TodayInHistory

[zodiacts]

Ode to the Libra Moon

Lilith Libra's exacerbating indecisiveness incites crowd chaos in Zodiacts: Lilith Libra and Her Lopsided Logic. Can balance be restored?

#youtube #libramoon #zodiac #zodiacts #moonsignastrology #personality traits #diplomatic #charming #sociable #genteel

[girlbogg]

hey has anyone else noticed that totk looks a lot like princess mononoke sometinms (<- guy who has never had an original thought)

#loz totk #zelda #ganondorf #tloz fanart #tears of the kingdom #tloz crossover #tloz au #i drew this back before i got very far in totk and i was convinced that the zonai would turn out to be dragons somehow #which wouldve made the game 150% cooler #i imagine eboshidorf would be kinda windwaker-esque #more like. reserved and genteel than totk dorf #trying to make a better life for his people but willing to kill gods and destroy the world to do it #meanwhile zelda lives in the forest and was raised by the gods (zonai) #and she meets link when he leaves his home village to find a cure for the gloom that is sapping everyone's health and nearly killed him #do you see my vision #my art

[payasita]

fashion

#cult of the lamb #cotl #doodles #im normal #outfits in order: genteel bartender jester cook and enforcer #im only half sure the cook one is canon #literally just gave heket the same chef frock i wear the same way i wear it lmao #the bishops are genuinely so fun to draw together! so many different critter shapes

[bethanydelleman]

Genteel Poverty Vs. Actual Poverty in Austen's Novels

Genteel poverty, which is being experienced by the Bates (Emma), the Dashwoods (Sense & Sensibility) to an extent, and possibly the Prices (Mansfield Park, though I don't know if they qualify as gentry), is different than actual poverty. The reason they struggle is because they have to keep buying things that keep them in their class, such as proper clothing and food to feed visitors. For example, the Dashwoods host the Middletons for dinner every time they dine at the park. That makes them participating members of the gentry, but it's probably eating up a lot of their budget. It's probably also why Mrs. Dashwood refuses to visit anyone outside of walking distance, they can't afford to host anyone else! Mrs. Grant also does this by the way (in Mansfield Park), she hasn't chosen to visit with the Rushworths and start this endless back and forth, so she doesn't accompany the others to Sotherton.

The Bates would have to do this too. They don't ever host Mr. Woodhouse because of his eccentricities, but if they are invited to dinner they would be expected to host back. That pork that Emma sent them likely was shared with Mrs. Elton or Mrs. Cole or whomever they needed to invite back to dinner. Or their neighbours might come up with clever excuses and then just come for tea.

The only Austen character at risk of real, actual poverty, is Mrs. Smith in Persuasion. She is unable to keep even a servant and is selling handmaid goods to support herself.

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell is all about this: a small town mostly inhabited by spinsters and widows who mostly have incomes similar to the Bates's, and how they all collectively pretend that they can afford to be gentry. Like baking the treats for your friends yourself but pretending that your maid did it. Or pretending you have candles burning at night but actually rushing to light them when someone knocks on the door. They all find ways to save in other areas of their lives so they can maintain the trappings of gentry.

But the point is: they can afford to eat and clothe themselves and have a maid of all work, an income of 100ish pounds a year is something you can live on and they don't have to work. They are poor in comparison, not actually poor. The majority of the population of England at that time had incomes similar to or lower than the Bates and worked 12-14 hours per day for it.

Note: I have no problem with Austen not including the lower classes in her novels, that's not what she wanted to write about and that's fine. There are small pieces about the poor, like the case of Old Abdy in Emma, and there is certainly concern expressed for the poor and examinations of the best ways to address relieving poverty (compare Lady Catherine's method with Emma's!). Not every book has to be about everything, and Austen made serious points about the place of women in English society even if she "only" wrote about the upper class.

#genteel poverty #jane austen #sense and sensibility #mansfield park #persuasion #cranford #elizabeth gaskell

[artschoolsurvivor]

Dudley and Eunice

When the storms Dudley and Eunice were wreaking havoc on the land, I couldn’t help but think they sounded like they had escaped from an Alan Bennet play… My Friend Woodstock and I had a Bennet-based conversation that led here… Dudley and Eunice An English Tea Room. Silent, but for the occasional clink of spoons against china. Dudley and Eunice, both in their seventies, both dressed in their…

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#alan bennett #battenburg #chutney #cream horn #dudley and eunice #genteel #marmalade #pastiche #storm #tea room #victoria wood

[richworld-online-shopping]

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[shotbyshe]

Words of the Day

The Mediterranean diet is a healthy-eating plan that focuses on plants, fish, seafood, nuts, seeds and olive oil. It may lower the risk of heart disease by reducing cholesterol, blood pressure and inflammation.

reticent:

Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself

Restrained or reserved.

Reluctant; unwilling.

cloy/cloyed: To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.

memetics:

The study of memes and their social and cultural effects.

A theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the "meme" as the unit of culture.

genteel: polite, refined, or respectable, often in an affected or ostentatious way.

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I met with a nutritionist and I'm debating on how to go about this ailment that I have. This Mediterranean diet is basically how I SHOULD be eating, but I don't. It's very hard to keep up with for me.

The wise man and the quiet man are one in the same. You don't need to know every thought that pops into my head. I won't lie, I battle with how much I want to share with others from time to time. If I want to let others in my head, but then I always think "should I let them know what I know?". I am a reticent individual, and I probably always will be.

I stopped liking the taste of straight hot chocolate some time ago, because it became too cloyed. My post-20s tastes couldn't stand it anymore. I switched to mocha in 2020, and I haven't gone back. Coffee, too bitter, chocolate, too sweet. Mocha is the way to go for she.

I bet you didn't know "meme"tics came from Darwin.

I'm everything about the genteel person, except the 'ostentatious way' part. This is to be showy. She subtle likeawah. (patois)*

#Words of the Day #words #definitions #dictionary #vocabulary #The Mediterranean diet #reticent #memetics #genteel #cloy #cloyed #anemia #patois #darwin

[creatureswallows]

diablo cody: he's the successor of edward scissorhands, he's genteel

creature: [brutually kills three people in about as many days]

#i KNOW he is genteel i KNOW #but the post is funnie #lisa frankenstein

[miralines]

I don’t have the brainpower to elaborate on this the way it deserves but the Toy Soldier is a brilliant parody of militarism and Dapper Steampunk Englishness that really doesn’t get enough credit

#the mechanisms #the mechs #the toy soldier #as I’ve been archiving I found a Jessica law tweet about bad retrofuturism #the kind of thing I like to refer to as taking the punk out of steampunk #and she mentions ts’s manner is very similar to what she’s criticizing #and acknowledges it does murder which that character archetype doesn’t generally #but she didn’t get into how. it does murder. it follows any order. it loves battle and is posh and knows everything about tea etiquette. #and those are bad!! it’s not noble or gallant it’s a very polite war criminal!! #it’s that genteel English officer taken seriously and with the implications of its violence #which is a wonderful pushback to the kind of popular ‘steampunk’ that’s just romanticized neovictorianism

[richworldbrands]

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#yoga #yogalife #yogaday #June21 #InternationalYogaDay #happyyogaday #wednesdaymotivation #yogaday2023 #yogaflow #yogainspiration #potential #husskinz #instep #Genteel

[zodiacts]

Ode to the Libra Moon

Lilith Libra's exacerbating indecisiveness incites crowd chaos in Zodiacts: Lilith Libra and Her Lopsided Logic. Can balance be restored?

#youtube #libramoon #venusretrograde #zodiac #zodiacts #bookseries #moonsignastrology #libra #personality traits #harmonious #sociable #genteel

[racefortheironthrone]

You've mentioned before that the lowest rung of the nobility tended to fight the hardest against extending the privileges of classes lower than them because they feared that it would erode their own privileges. Could fascism and other reactionary movements enjoying their greatest support among small rural landowners and the urban middle class be seen as a modern version of this?

There is a particular form of ressentiment that is unique to the middling classes, who envy and resent those above them for their wealth, privilege, and power and simultaneously hate and fear those below them out of a belief that the lower orders will take the small amounts of wealth, privilege, and power that the middling classes have managed to acquire through crime, revolution, or the welfare state.

And it's been at the core of reactionary politics since Putney and the Enlightenment. As I've written about before, the lowest-ranked nobles were particularly squeezed by the Price Revolution and the rise of the bourgeoisie, and a lot of the "noblesse d'epee" clung fiercely to their feudal privileges (and deeply resented new money bourgeois buying their way into the "noblesse de robe") because those feudal privileges were the only things that distinguished them from peasants.

And likewise, during the 19th and 20th century, a lot of small farmers and shopkeeps and small businessmen who were being squeezed by the Industrial Revolution and the advent of capitalism were persuaded by anti-Enlightenment reactionary propaganda that the true threat to their clinging-on-to-respectability-by-their-fingernails material standards of living was Enlightenment liberals, Jacobin radicals, and later socialists and Jews - hence why Baubel and Marx called anti-semitism the "socialism of fools."

And it never really went away...

#history #intellectual history #social history #ressentiment #noblesse d'epee #genteel poverty #early modern history #enlightenment #french revolution #fascism

[fictionadventurer]

Slotting The Long Winter alongside North and South as a book about life in the nineteeth century that counts as a sci fi because it explores how technology affects the lives of the people whose society depends on it, and explores what kind of duty a man has to care for his own business vs. that of the community.

#preliminary thought is that north and south is kinder to the poor and more community-minded #because there's a lot of stuff in the long winter about how you need to care for yourself and not rely on others #or the scenes where the guy's like 'why should i have to give up my seed for folks who were too dumb to get their own supplies?' #and the response is 'of course you don't have to. of course we'll pay you for it' #as if letting people starve would have been a valid option #but then there are scenes that push back against it #namely the scene with the storekeeper trying to pricegouge the wheat #(contender for new favorite scene in the book) #where they show the other side of capitalism/free market #where of course you have the right to charge what you want #but get too greedy and the community will remember #so it's in your best interests to be decent #and now that i put it that way WOW is that a cynical take #but it's still a nice moment when they make the storekeeper change his mind #but anyway it's kind of interesting that the working-class take is more 'every man for himself' than the genteel english take was #the long winter #north and south #little house #laura ingalls wilder #elizabeth gaskell