oldbookillustrations:

Ophelia.

John Hayter, frontispiece from Shakespeare’s heroines on the stage, by Charles E. L. Wingate, New York, 1895.

(Source: archive.org)

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Katrina.

Arthur Ignatius Keller, frontispiece from The legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, Indianapolis, 1906.

(Source: archive.org)

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France, women’s dresses between 1794 and 1800.

From Geschichte des Kostüms (The costume history) vol. 5, by Auguste Racinet, Berlin, 1888.

(Source: archive.org)

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Traditional Russian headdresses from the areas of Kaluga, Veliky Novgorod, Tver, and Kursk.

From Geschichte des Kostüms (The costume history) vol. 5, by Auguste Racinet, Berlin, 1888.

(Source: archive.org)

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Newest fashion for February 1829: evening, dinner, and walking dresses.

From The World of fashion and continental feuilletons, vol. 6, London, 1829.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Newest fashion for January 1829: Russian, morning, and walking dresses.

From The World of fashion and continental feuilletons, vol. 6, London, 1829.

(Source: archive.org)

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Newest fashion for June 1829: walking dresses.

From The World of fashion and continental feuilletons, vol. 6, London, 1829.

(Source: archive.org)

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Parisian coiffures:
- 1: coiffure de mariée
- 2, 3, 4: coiffure de cour
- 5: coiffure de bal paré
- 6, 8: coiffure de bal
- 7: coiffure en turban
- 9: coiffure chez soi
- 10: coiffure à la grecque

From The World of fashion and continental feuilletons, vol. 6, London, 1829.

(Source: archive.org)

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1835 (Louis-Philippe) - Woman’s hunting and riding habit.

From La mode pendant quarante ans de 1830 à 1870 (Forty years of fashion: 1830-1870), by Louis Colas, Paris, 1900.

(Source: archive.org)

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1840-1850 - Various hats and headdresses.

From La mode pendant quarante ans de 1830 à 1870 (Forty years of fashion: 1830-1870), by Louis Colas, Paris, 1900.

(Source: archive.org)

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In ancient Greece.

Percy Anderson, from Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical, by Eliza Aria, London, 1906.

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literatureiscool:

“I’ll take the odds against Caravan.”

“In poneys?”

“Done.”

And Lord Milford, a young noble, entered in his book the bet which he had just made with Mr Latour, a grey headed member of the Jockey Club.

- Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845), Benjamin Disraeli

Fun fact: The second chapter of Sybil is a complete and ostensibly one-sided history of the English Premiership. It could’ve easily fit into a political pamphlet.

Behold Benjamin Disraeli, everyone, spouting Tory bullshit (and I mean the real kind of Tory bullshit, which fortunately is non-existent in our day— monarchism, imperialism, opposition to meaningful reform) ,  through second-rate romance novels.

OMG apparently George Canning loved pulling pranks

montparnassed:

history meme: pairings {1/7}

Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley

”(…)Regular conversation with Byron had an invigorating effect on Shelley’s output of poetry. While on a boating tour the two took together, Shelley was inspired to write his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, often considered his first significant production since Alastor.

Shelley also encouraged Byron to begin an epic poem on a contemporary subject, advice that resulted in Byron’s composition of Don Juan.”

“Could not you and I contrive to meet this summer?  Could not you take a run here alone?” (x)

In the fall of 1818 Shelley visited Byron in Venice, renewing their friendship after a hiatus of two years. Delighted with each other’s company, they talked nonstop, from three in the afternoon until five the next morning. For days the two of them talked, dined, rode horseback, and travelled in gondolas together.