#early victorian period

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Kochubey-Baryatinskaya, Christina Robertson. 1840s.

#aesthetic #art #art history #fashion #historical fashion #historical art #women in art #victorian #women #victorian aesthetic #1840s #1840s hairstyles #1840s fashion #early victorian period #imperial russian fashion #imperial Russia #russian nobility #nobility aesthetic #royalty aesthetic #royal fashion

[clove-pinks]

I'm not done with Edward Couch (although I feel very sorry for his tragic fate). He not only looks like this but writes with the voice of an 1840s Gent in his letters home. He visits Greenland and writes to his parents: "Arrival took place this morning at 3 o’clock & one of the rummest snug little places I ever saw. x x x x x" (He uses tons of Xs in his letters, from the example in May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth).

"Old Franklin is an exceedingly good old chap." And he continues:

In our mess – we live uncommon well – too well almost – we commenced preserved meats & soups etc, a day or two ago & find them very good – in fact every thing is most comfortable – couldn’t be more so. x x x x We shall have plenty of shooting by & bye – when we arrive at our station – jammed in the ice – a regular set of game laws will come out

#franklin expedition #edward couch #royal navy #1840s #gents #dressed to kill #early victorian era #this poor man should have been smoking cigars and reading magazine cartoons #not dying in the arctic #polar #may we be spared to meet on earth #perfect 19th century man punctuation #no periods no commas just endless dashes

[thresholdbb]

The true crime of Janeway’s gothic holonovel was putting her in the Victorian period when she is so clearly Edwardian

#put her in period bike clothes cause she’s going places #something something bicycle women’s liberation and suffrage #also the Gibson girl hair #maybe late Victorian early Edwardian #she could still be in ‘ancient England’ but a little later #yes yes it’s Jane eyre #I get what they were trying to do #but she could’ve been a suffragette for fun instead #still feminine (and stressful) but not ~romance~ #I could write a cohesive post about this but I already have triple digits in my draft folder #star trek voyager #captain janeway #sonic shower thoughts

[thatscribblingrat]

this comic has no plot 4/?

how many pages do you think i can get through just introducing different pretty people before i have to wing plot?

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#featuring a HORSE you bastards #oc artwork #william oc #charlotte and lottie #comics #this comic has no plot #period romance #period drama #regency #slash early victorian we're straddling the line

[onlinesweetheart]

<3

#instagram #pinterest #art #classic art #classic painting #nature #fairycore #fairy #painting #romantic period #romantic era #victorian period #victorian era #Luca Giordano #St. Michael #early modern period

[anza-redstar]

Just found out that ‘Varney the Vampire’, notorious mid-Victorian penny-dreadful, is on Project Gutenberg and chock-full of important vampire knowledge from the year 1845. Vampires are from Norway, apparently? And can be killed in the regular way by being shot at, but can then be revived by moonlight? And are bad at getting over fences?

“They looked in the direction he indicated. At the end of this vista was the wall of the garden. At that point it was full twelve feet in height, and as they looked, they saw the hideous, monstrous form they had traced from the chamber of their sister, making frantic efforts to clear the obstacle.

Then they saw it bound from the ground to the top of the wall, which it very nearly reached, and then each time it fell back again into the garden with such a dull, heavy sound, that the earth seemed to shake again with the concussion. They trembled—well indeed they might, and for some minutes they watched the figure making its fruitless efforts to leave the place.”

I do also have to give them credit for the conversation that goes “Hey, you know our swooning damsel sister, who has done nothing so far but faint and get attacked by vampires while the narrator breathlessly describes how sexily terrified she is? It’s probably cool to leave her alone with our elderly mother while we investigate mausoleums, you think?” “…Well, we’ll give her a gun, right?” “Obviously we’ll give her a gun, dude.”

“Flora changed colour, and slightly trembled, and then, as if ashamed of her fears, she said,—"Go, go; I will not detain you. Surely no harm can come to me in presence of my mother." "We shall not be gone longer than the time I mention to you," said Henry. 

"Oh, I shall be quite content. Besides, am I to be kept thus in fear all my life? Surely, surely not. I ought, too, to learn to defend myself." Henry caught at the idea, as he said,— 

"If fire-arms were left you, do you think you would have courage to use them?" "I do, Henry." 

"Then you shall have them; and let me beg of you to shoot any one without the least hesitation who shall come into your chamber."

#varney the vampire #and might as well tag this #dracula daily #we all know why i was interested in the pop-culture understanding of vampires in the mid-late Victorian period #it was published 1845-ish but appears to be *set* in the early 1700s btw #which is about equivalent to somebody today writing a thriller set in the late 1800s #and i can't imagine they were doing a lot of research #so this is probably about as accurate to any particular time period as a modern steampunk show is ditto #anyway let's give Lucy Westenra a blunderbuss

[peaches2217]

Me: "Alright! I've got a good prompt and I know how this will all play out! Now I've just gotta get a good mental picture of Mario's clothes right quick so I can describe it to readers."

Me an hour later, with twenty different tabs open on my phone, jumping back and forth between like a millenium of upper-class fashion: "Hehe walk walk fashion baby"

#extravagant fashion: an interest so obscure I keep forgetting I have it until I'm waist-deep in research I probably don't even need to do #petticoats! hoop skirts! ruffles and lace! gimme ALL'a that shit #historical fashion especially is my jam! #it’s just fascinating seeing how people of all cultures have expressed themselves through clothing since the beginning of recorded history #so far it looks like we're basing Mario's royal attire on Victorian-era military uniforms #I headcanon a great deal of Peach's fashion as befitting the early Victorian period so it's fitting~ #peaches screams into the void

[the-busy-ghost]

Look I love a Spooky Edinburgh Moodboard as much as the next person but I do wonder whether the people who tag pictures of St Giles and the General Assembly Hall as "witchy” or dark academia aesthetic have any idea what they’re looking at

#Edinburgh #Look nothing says witchy like Presbyterianism you heard it here first folks #Keep doing it actually maybe we could power Scotland by hooking up a generator to the graves of hardline seventeenth century ministers #as they proceed to spin in their graves faster than the Mallard's wheels #This would be delightful #Interesting how history plays out for all their attempts to make Scotland a covenanted nation we're probably the most secular bit of the UK #And a lot of the tourists who come to Edinburgh don't even seem to know what denomination the Church of Scotland is #Now I'm mildly inclined towards the church myself but thank god it's modernised considerably even in the last 50 year #Though it is difficult to try to explain to people what an important force Presbyterianism was in Scottish history when it's barely visible #Auld Reekie #Athens of the North #To be fair though the whole Presbyterian Schtick probably DID influence a lot of Scotland's 'witchy' aesthetic #Beyond the whole horrendous persecution of the early modern period #Certainly if St Giles had remained a Catholic church I think it would have had a distinctly different vibe #Though it's not exactly the best example of a Presbyterian church given its Victorian refurbishment #Little bare parish churches with dark pews and scratched flagstone floors and whitewashed walls and a kirkyard full of odd symbols #Lovely places #Terrible places #The power of the Kirk was immense and it's so strange that we've almost entirely shrugged it off #Maybe Chris Guthrie was right

[detectivehole]

i love seeing old old photos of normal people out and about in their elaborate-ass clothes. like damn that looks impractical as fuck girl. i bet jeans would blow you away

#these are blue jeans #'they look like underwear. are they at least comfortable?' #sometimes but i wouldn't count on it #'what's the benefit then?' #well you can do pretty much anything in them. and they have practical pocket placement #traveling back in time to give the victorians hoodies and early edo period japanese sweatpants #really gonna fuck up the timeline for this one #giving a 13th century central african city's entire population crop tops. let's role boys

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolaevna and Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Christina Robertson. 1840s.

#aesthetic #art #art history #fashion #historical fashion #historical art #women in art #women #1840s #1840s fashion #early Victorian period #victorian style #Victorian aesthetic #victorian #Romanovs #Romanov family #Alexandra nikolaevna #Olga nikolaevna #1840s hairstyles #imperial Russia #grand duchess #imperial Russia aesthetic #royalty aesthetic

[doctorcrowley]

Me when my dad tries to correct my fashion history knowledge (I like it in an autistic way)

#we were watching doctor who and I was gushing over the historical accuracy of one episode #he tried to tell me it was the early Victorian period #it was not #it was the transitional period between the Victorian and Edwardian periods #funny #memes #humor #dr who #doctor who

[clove-pinks]

Happy Eighteen-Forties Friday, my friends! Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

#Eighteen-Forties Friday #1840s #illustration from 'the natural history of stuck-up people' by albert smith (1847) #1847 #smoking #using actual period slang you could say 'have a weed' #but that's likely to be mistaken for smoking something else nowadays #also 1840s joinville necktie approaching miwackulous proportions #early victorian era #fashion #neckwear

[cameron1954]

#Camel Back Georgian Sofa (1760) with Needlepoint scenic upholstery from the early Victorian period. Very nice form. The rug is a Sarouk .

[daincrediblegg]

forced to be up and about when clearly my calling in life at this moment is to be cuddling francis by a warm fire with neptune snoring at my feet (and covering them bc they are eternally cold) and dozing off or perhaps just chatting quietly or listening to some music (watching something if it's modern au for sure) and just enjoying each others company dear god thats all I want

#egg's victorian waif hours #maybe also this turns into soft sleepy period sex like idk. just a thought. #thats just the mood today. think I'm gonna leave the cafe early so I can go pick up my fleece lined leggings and go home and ideate about #this some more. bc I need it. for my mental health

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 22

Day 22 Word Count: 1,669 Words

NaNo 2022 Total So Far: 70,135 Words

Excerpt: 

The portrait that Gerry had done of us was hanging on the wall in the hall. Her painter flitted away from her like a fever dream. I don’t know why she hadn’t stayed. Gerry promised her the dawn and the twilight; English summers in the country side and cold winter nights wrapped up in loving arms. Perhaps she was a little too intense. I’ve noticed that. She got herself fired up and went buck wild once she knew she had a woman’s interest. 

Gerry was a gambler; she would do stupid things to keep the women’s interest like spend an obscene amount of money on her. More money than most of these women had ever seen. We’re talking thousands of pounds.

“What does it matter, Matilda? I’m the last of Papa’s great line and Lord knows I’m not going to be anyone’s mother. But that doesn’t mean I’ve never been called Papa before.” She laughed at that; always joking to hide her pain. 

She had that air about her; a swagger that seemed more likely on a gentleman. Well, naturally Gerry was a gentleman. I think seeing me play feminine was really bothering her. She used to talk about how she wanted to teach me all the courtly ways of the female knight.

My sudden shift into this unnatural grab at femininity was disheartening for her. She didn’t think my temporary sacrifice was worth my long term gains. I wanted to teach but in order to do so; I’d have to convince them I was a lady. I felt like I was walking backwards. It was ridiculous, having to pick up my skirt every time I had to step up or down. However did Rosie and nearly every other woman and girl survive every single day? I got so frustrated I tore the bottom of my skirt because I pulled it too hard and then I cried in frustration.

“Do you need my arm?” Gerry asked, watching me mince about. She wasn’t mocking me. I walked so slowly now; it must have been painful to have to keep pace with me. Gerry, of course, tolerated it with an admirable patience. But of course, I was her only girl then, so I didn’t expect her to rush off so suddenly.

#more of Gerry and Matilda #matilda's trying to get used to the uniform of the ladies' college which is more traditionally feminine than what she prefers to wear #Tilly: The Progress of a Victorian Lesbian and Female Husband #victorian lesbians #lesbian characters #butch characters #victorian era #nanowrimo #nanowrimo 2022 #writeblr #my writing #lesbian writers #word count #period drama #historic fiction #female husbands #b. h. avondale #Gerry and Dave are probably my favorite characters from this story though Miss Holburn is pretty good too #broke 70k today if nothing else #okay though early bed time because I need sleep #good luck everyone!

[asterroth]

Getting soooooooo emotional and overwhelmed and nauseous thinking about how people who were adults in 1901 and people who were adults in 1999 were from the same century but so much changeeeedddd if only they knew how much everything was goingn to change

#looking at a photoset of people in the very early 20th century and realizing to them they were in the 19th cent they were in the same #century as the 1812 war and shit #they didnt even know how much everything would change so rapidly #that by the end of the century the world would become completely unrecognizeable!!!!!! #at least in the US #like so incredibly unrecognizeable #like i think people from 1801 would see a photo of someone from 1899 and think #like woah this photograph shit is insane but other than that this looks like a normal person #(i know styles really regressed and became super conservative in the victorian period ya) #but like if someone from 1901 saw a photo of someone in 1999 it would blow their fucking mind im pretty sure #idk i am just very Historically Minded right now and history is getting me super worked up and emotional rn