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acswinburne · 9 months

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29 July 2023- my abstract got accepted! i'm now working to turn it into a communicable paper, which involves going back and re-reading my sources on dramatic monologues and taking walks to locate pretty buildings as motivation (:

#dia speaks #studyspo #studyblr #grad school #gradblr #phdblr #study motivation #study space #uniblr #booklr #books #academia #studyblr community #studying #victorian studies

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notallsandmen · 1 year

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You pdhing in history? Could you tell me something weird about your field of expertise? I'm stressed because three days to finish two papers. Thanks!

AAH, this is so much fun.

Okay, one of my favourite anecdotes about late-19th century Scandinavian literature

August Strindberg writing to Verner von Heidenstam and asking whether he would like to order condoms from the pharmacy together, to save on shipping costs

Now get off tumblr and write! I find it helps to write by hand on paper, then I can’t erase everything or start to edit midway through a paragraph

#my asks #august strindberg #19th century history #19th century literature #victorian studies #fin de siècle #fin de siecle

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marzipanandminutiae · 10 months

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quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women

"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)

"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)

"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)

#history #when they were still alive to defend themselves #maybe- much as I rag on modern historical fiction -we've gotten a bit closer to the truth than our grandparents did #see this is one reason I love studying the Victorian era (besides hoarding their detritus like a dragon I mean what)#it just is One Of The Eras Of All Time in pop culture #and it means so much to so many people that getting to the real human bottom of it fascinates me #spoiler: it boils down to 'people were people and always have been'

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ledalife · 1 month

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You don't know me any better than they do, baby

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lionofchaeronea · 4 months

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An Irish Wolfhound, Edwin Landseer (1802-1873)

#art #art history #Edwin Landseer #Edwin Henry Landseer #animal study #animals in art #animalier #dog #dogs #Irish wolfhound #British art #English art #19th century art #Victorian period #Victorian art #watercolor #pen and ink #Yale Center for British Art

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greenacademian · 28 days

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lottiestudying · 7 months

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23.09.2023—feeling a lot more refreshed and slowly ready to get back into some thesis work

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octaviasdread · 2 months

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05.02.24

new modules, new reading lists, and new multi vitamins are doing wonders for my motivation

unlike the professor who released our class details three days ago - our books should arrive on time but how much we can read by next week is…questionable

at least the storms are over. storm isha tik toks were right, battling the wind as a student with no car is really not it

#the frozen sound was literally me trying to get back from the library #the bravest soldier #also #kudos to my victorian lit professor for releasing his reading list weeks ago #what a man #CO Posts #co speaks #CO study #studyblr #uniblr #photo diaries #uni blogging #college blog #study blog #studyspo #academia #university

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scoutingthetrooper · 1 year

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#home #home interior #home decor #home design #architecture #vintage #victorian #window #wood #wooden #books #reading #desk #work #study #stone #fireplace #gothic architecture #chest #1k

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rolitae · 2 months

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Colour palette: yea or nay?

#pixel art #wip #art study #victorian era #aseprite #pixels #pixel artist #artists on tumblr

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celestialtulip · 3 months

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Some studies I did this morning of the Jeanne d’Arc sculpture by Antonin Mercié (ca. 1890).

#im out of practice so this took several hours #my goal is to draw more this year #joan of arc #jeanne d'arc #art history #victorian #turn of the century #digital drawing #figure drawing #art study #drawing #sketch #artists on tumblr #art

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acswinburne · 10 months

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2 July, 2023- I have officially been working as a research assistant for a month now! It's been so engaging to work on a book project for a faculty member of mine, and the fact that I get my own office for the summer is just the cherry on top <3.

#dia speaks #studyspo #studyblr #grad school #phdblr #study motivation #study space #notes #uniblr #booklr #books #academia #victorian studies #studying #studyblr community #gradblr

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azarya-s · 1 year

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Crimson Peak studies

#digital art #digital painting #studies #crimson peak #victorian fashion #artists on tumblr #painting

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the-home · 3 months

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#Charlotte Boundy #door #victorian interior design #victorian home #living room #interior design #interior #bedroom #bathroom #study #vintage wallpaper #pattern wallpaper #patterns #doorway #entry #entryway

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marzipanandminutiae · 4 months

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i feel u on 1920s hate. when everyone is like ‘finally women are free of ~restrictive~ corsets’ and its like . first of all. didnt need to be. second. how do u think the curvier women were achieving the 1920s silhouette. quickly.

Exactly. I mean, yeah, it’s not their fault at all that people were saying things like that, or that it’s reached a fever pitch in recent years. Great material gains WERE being made for women, and I’m absolutely not discounting that. But much in the way that people tend to throughout history, though, they firmly believed that everything they were doing was the best and most progressive that it had ever been. And that idea has been hugely amplified in later years

I think it also has a lot to do with the fact that the 1920s were, in many ways, the beginning of a world that looks familiar to us now. Widespread film technology, continued rise of electricity, clothing-ways that seem familiar to us today in contrast to what came before (for example the advent of bras and panties, although people tend to forget there was usually also a girdle involved), Air travel, cars becoming more popular, etc. because it seems less foreign, we accept all too readily the idea that it was better in all respects than everything earlier

(And ignore all the ways in which it would still have been foreign. Like… The 1920s were not actually the Proto – 2020s, guys. It owed for more to its immediate predecessors re: era mentality and technology and even fashion than some people would like to admit)

I don’t actually hate the 1920s – that would be pointless and reductive, since it’s an entire decade that happened over countless countries, demographics, cultural groups, etc. I think I’m with you, though, in hating the way it’s been put up on a pedestal as the perfect progressive era that was unilaterally better for women in particular

(Also, I read a book from the 1951 about the history of undergarments, and this mindset is in FULL force even three decades later.The guy finds ways to inaccurately rag on the Victorians even in chapters that aren’t about that time period, and concludes with a stirring statement that they are now living in the perfect time for underwear and that everything is so much better and more progressive than it ever has been in the past. The fact that this man- Cecil Willett Cunnington -was considered one of the highest authorities on dress history for a long time probably explains the current state of the discipline, In terms of “you can say basically whatever you want and people will believe you”)

#ask #anon #history #dress history #fashion history #hairdressers rejoiced when the ball came in because women now had to spend way more time and money at their salons #*the bob #and the 1920s saw the birth of the term diet as a verb #which is not to say that it was unilateral leave a toxic or worst time in terms of fashion than what came before!#just said it wasn’t some ideal time period When everything got better #any study of how the 1920s were an amazing era in which everything improved forever #and the prior eras horrible in every conceivable way #should also include newspaper articles where elderly Victorians basically say ‘wtf that’s not what it was like’

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corvidacryptida · 7 months

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Rainy Sundays call for cozy studying for the upcoming week.

#dark academia #gothic academia #darkest academia #chaotic academia #academia #vampire academia #light academia #goth #gothic #victorian gothic #study #victorian fashion #victorian #college life #outfit of the day #ootd #goth outfit #victorian outfit #study outfit

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