“The wind was blowing drearily. The lamps looked pale, and shook as if they were cold. There was a distant glimmer of something that was not quite darkness, rather than of light, in the sky; and foreboding night was shivering and restless, as the dying are who make a troubled end.”

“Dombey and son” Charles Dickens - 1846

#CharlesDickens #VictorianLondon #LondonSlums #VictorianLife #VictorianSlums #Victorian #19thCentury #VictorianEra #englishliterature

“A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen. The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours. There were a good many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside. The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.”

“Oliver Twist” Charles Dickens - 1837

#CharlesDickens #VictorianLondon #LondonSlums #VictorianLife #VictorianSlums #Victorian #19thCentury #VictorianEra #englishliterature

I have a pregnant character in my pseudo-Victorian-London fantasy WIP, which has led to reading 19th Century advice books about pregnancy and the lying in. https://www.victorianweb.org/science/maternity/uvic/7.html has links to quite a few of the manuals.

So far, my favourite is by William Bull, 1865, in which he explains that, while some women claim labour is excruciating, it doesn't seem that painful to him, and what do women in labour even want chloroform for anyway?

Reading through the whole chapter, it is apparent that he firmly believes that if women were doing it right, it wouldn't hurt. You only have your weak little minds to blame, ladies. 1/

#writing #AmResearching #VictorianEra #pregnancy #history #AdviceBooks

Rickets and Scurvy returning to Britain, along with malnutrition, what were once common conditions of the Victorian era are now returning in the 21st C. #victorianera

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-health-commission-thousands-of-people-admitted-to-hospital-suffering-from-malnutrition-n23hqgzjr?shareToken=5344c9dc98f82745c8dd243ff4e20dc8

Pride Book of the Day: Opening Night, by Lisabet Sarai #lisabetsarai. The understudy turns out to be immensely talented, as well as devilishly handsome. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXCJVLC1 #G&S #Ruddigore #GayRomance #MMRomance #London #Theater #VictorianEra #AlternativeHistory #bookstodon

This is exciting...! Only a few hours left to get on board (and obtain a copy of the limited First Edition of the game)!

BOTANY: Flower Hunting in the Victorian Era
by Dux Somnium Games

#Botany #VictorianEra #BoardGames #Flowers

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/duxsomnium/botany-flower-hunting-in-the-victorian-era/pledge/edit

May 31st: William Henry #Vanderbilt takes control of the property at 26th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City after the passing of his grandfather Cornelius. He changes the site's name from Gilmore's Garden to #MadisonSquareGarden.

In 1879.

#History #USHistory #GildedAge #VictorianEra

I love the mad scientist vibe. #skincare #VictorianEra #history

https://youtu.be/PcRhwcwp-5E

Did you know that #entrepreneurial #criminals in the #VictorianEra used a coded #language named "Flash" to not get in trouble?

"He is quiddish! But for thrums he'll be slanders."

(Translation: 'He is good-natured but for three pence, he will become a thief'.)

Flash conceiled criminal activity from authorities, and it was largely used and furthered by "buttocks" - #whores.

It's an interesting continuation from 16 cent. "cant" slang.

#linguistics #history #women #secret

Victorian era love letters sent by former PM’s parents published online

A selection of Victorian love letters written by the parents of a former prime minister are being published online for Valentine’s Day.

The letters were written in 1843 by James Maitland Balfour, then MP for Haddington, and his bride-to-be, Lady Blan

https://anglotopia.net/british-history/victorian-era-love-letters-sent-by-former-pms-parents-published-online/

#BritishHeritage #BritishHistory #VictorianEra

Two paintings by Queen Victoria to go under hammer

Two original paintings by Queen Victoria found in a Surrey cottage are set to go under the hammer.

The pieces, which both depict colorful flowers, are believed to date back to the second half of the 19th century and were bought by a private collector in 1945, when items from O

https://anglotopia.net/british-identity/art/two-paintings-by-queen-victoria-to-go-under-hammer/

#Art #BritishHeritage #RoyalHistory #Royals #VictorianEra

https://earlywithdrawal.net/tolton/2022/06/22/the-salt-island-diaries/

#SaltIsland #Massachusetts #NewEngland #VictorianEra #feminism

#Lesetipp #book #DeannaRaybourn #VeronicaSpeedwell #ACouriousBeginning #VictorianEra Meine aktuelle Lektüre.

Fascinating survey of medical care (and access to care) in the Scottish Highlands and Islands in 1850 to 1852.

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/remoteandruralremedies/search.html

#HighlandRegion
#HighlandsAndIslands
#Scotland
#Healthcare
#VictorianEra
#RemoteAndRuralRemedies
#1850to1852
#heritage
#history

That was my 2022 😉
Thank god it’s over and hopefully 2023 will be better 🤞

#artvsartist #artvsartist2022 #myart #my2022 #illustration #illustrator #comic #comicartist #victorian #victorianera #19thcentury #thatsme #fashionhistory

Her father often jokes that Birdie shall become either a great pirate or politician. He does not seem to understand that it is tolerance that makes these two professions possible, and ultimately, inevitable.

https://earlywithdrawal.net/tolton/2022/06/22/the-salt-island-diaries/

#19thcentury #feminism #victorianera #historicalfiction

Looking for accounts to do with:

#hauntedshores
#nauticalhistory
#weatherhistory
#ghostships
#victorianera
#edwardianera
#18thcentury
#17thcenturywitchhunts
#plagues in history
#darkhistories
#sewist
#halloween
#lighthousehistory

If you have such an acct and would like a follow, give this post a favorite, and that will be enough for me to check your acct out. Thank you.

Things I love, continued:

All things British, my dream is to one day go to the UK #bbc #regencyera #Victorianera #britbox #Mudlarking

#archeology

BOOKS! My husband and I met 35 years ago at a comic book store. We were married eight months later.
#comicbooks #goldenage #silverage Before COVID and cancer we loved to go #thrifting for books. #Sciencefiction #fantasy #mystery #historicalfiction #historicalmystery

#documenteries #naturetv #truecrime

#politics #news

#introduction

Queen Victoria spinning in Windsor Castle (4th April 1865)

https://www.rct.uk/collection/2105725/queen-victoria-at-a-spinning-wheel

#spinning #victorianera

Skeleton found on north Cornish coast may be 18th century shipwrecked sailor

The remains of a human skeleton discovered on a footpath on the north Cornish coast may have belonged to a shipwrecked sailor from the 18th or 19th centuries.

The discovery at Trevone and overlooking Newtrain Bay, near Pads

https://anglotopia.net/british-history/georgian-era/skeleton-found-on-north-cornish-coast-may-be-18th-century-shipwrecked-sailor/

#BritishNews #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #VictorianEra