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Kaiser Franz Josef's Lovers
From up-above on the left: the Polish Countess Katarzyna Branicka, Franz Josef's first lover; Anna Nowak, and, on the right, Katharina Schratt.«My dear, beloved Amalia!Since eight o'clock this morning,...
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Just a tiny Victorian Frame forgotten in an old Trunk
 I've always been seeing this little portrait as long as I can remember. It was hanging on a wall in my great-grandmother's sitting room.  I've never loved it such a lot, to me that lady caressing her...
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The Shambles in York
With the topic of today's post we're going to travel back in time much farther than we are used to, until reaching the Late Middle Ages. It is in that period that the Old Continent already knew its...
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The little pianist who played for Abraham Lincoln
 Today we're going to know a child prodigy, known as one of the most famous pianists, sopranos, composers, and conductors, not only of her time and nation, but of all time. Her name was MarÃa Teresa...
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VICTORIAN ETIQUETTE: How to behave at a Hotel
 Victorian etiquette was a very rigid system of social and moral norms that governed every aspect of daily life in the 19th century. Initially developed for the court, it quickly spread among the...
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Straw Plaiting
In the late Victorian period, the spread of the railway affected much of the English countryside, but left the most eastern counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and North Essex...
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Capturing the Fragrance of Late Summer in a Victorian Peach Pie
 During the hottest period of the year, I try to stay outdoor as less as possible, just the time to water the most delicate plants, remove their dryed leaves and flowers, and I spend the rest of the...
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Albert Moore, the Victorian British painter who immortalized the Summer...
 Midsummer, 1887, by Albert Moore.It is housed at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, England.It was 1887 when the Victorian artist, born in York in 1841, created this canvas. The...
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1st August ~ Celebrating "Lamass Day"
  It was upon a Lammas night,  When corn rigs are bonnie,Beneath the moon's unclouded light,  I held away to Annie...Robert Burns (1759-1796), Corn Rigs Are Bonny, 1783. There are few things...
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When Empress Elisabeth of Austria met Queen Victoria
  When the King and Queen of Naples were deposed by Garibaldi in 1861, they travelled widely in Europe and Great Britain and met many families throughout their extensive web of relations, setting...
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Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life
 Beside the Old Church Gate Farm, Smarden, Kent.Under the old malthouse, Hambledon, Surrey.Near Alderley Edge, Cheshire.The Old Place.Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at...
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~ VICTORIAN AGE CURIOSITIES VI ~
I know that whenever I find myself publishing this kind of posts I always arouse your enthusiasm.Well, it has been passing so long a time since I published 'VICTORIAN AGE CURIOSITIES V' so let's not...
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Stitching Stories ~ What was a Quilting Bee
“There are times when an idea for a painting will linger for years in my mind before it is ever committed to canvas. I’ve thought about this painting for at least 15 years. It all began when my mother...
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Remembering the Edwardian Age with Nostalgia
 The Edwardian period (1901-1914) is often portrayed as a romantic golden age of long Summer days and garden parties, basking in a sun that never set on the British Empire. This perception was created...
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A "new" portrait of Queen Victoria
 Today I'm presenting you something surprisingly . . . NEW ! This is an enamel on porcelain depicting the Queen full-length, standing, in profile to the left, wearing a low-necked yellow dress with...
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Treats for your Tea Time
Since the mid 18th century, tea was intrinsically linked to femininity, and a woman at her tea things epitomised gentility and delicacy for many writers and painters. Today I'm sharing a recipe for...
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Miss Austen's Secret
  “Jane, lost in her imagination, went on gazing at the garden, chasing plots and stories where a girl completes her parable without anyone around her being able to grasp its meaning."The other night...
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Prince Albert, the British Farmer
 Prince Albert standing in the middle of the farmyard, leaning on pitchfork; Queen Victoria to right, seated by a cow, feeding a child with a cup of milk; another couple of children to the left,...
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ~ Lady Georgina Ward, the Countess of Dudley
 Her loveliness was something quite apart. Scores of women may be said to have challenged her supremacy, and to have been her superiors at certain points, but her exquisitely shaped and poised head,...
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When a Lioness attacked a British Mail Coach (Oct. 20, 1816)
 The Lioness attacking the Exeter Mail Coach, oil painting of c. 1820, a copy of a work by James Pollard.   When we think of historic stagecoaches, our imagination often immediately goes back to the...
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