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That fashionable, elegant emerald-green gown, as much beautiful as poisonous
William Mc Gregor Paxton, The Green Dress, (1875)The dresses of most Victorian ladies of the early XIXth century were made in small sewing workshops by seamstresses who not only sewed, but also...
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‘Snapp-Apple Night’ or ‘All-Hallow Eve, in Ireland’ by Daniel Maclise, 1833.
Snapp-Apple Night or All-Hallow Eve in Ireland by Daniel Maclise, 1833.This painting was inspired by a Halloween celebration Maclise attended at Blarney in County Cork in 1832. It depicts some of the...
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Giving back life to an antique bed headboard
When we got married, knowing the passion for restoration that Rossano and I, among others, share, an elderly acquaintance of ours gave us this ancient headboard of a bed as a present.It had belonged...
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~ VICTORIAN AGE CURIOSITIES V ~
I know that whenever I find myself publishing such a post I always arouse your enthusiasm.Well, it has been passing so a long time since I published 'VICTORIAN AGE CURIOSITIES IV' so let's not...
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༺ The First Thanksgiving Day ༻
The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930)The first Thanksgiving is commonly traced back to 1621, when in the city of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Pilgrim Fathers who had fled...
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"Longbourn" by Jo Baker, the Downstairs World of "Pride and Prejudice"
Once upon a time there was the Bennet family: a distracted father, a suffocating mother with five daughters to marry. Jane Austen masterfully tells us her noble troubles in Pride and Prejudice, but she...
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Souvenir of November's Plays of Colors
Fall, leaves, fallFall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meFluttering from the autumn tree.I shall smile when wreaths of snowBlossom where the...
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A Ghost Story born from experiencing Poverty: 'A Christmas Carol'
Sir Luke Fildes, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, 1874, oil on canvas.Reproduced courtesy of Royal Holloway, University of London.When we think about the Victorian age we remind of the...
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Advent Calendars in History
Advent calendar dating back to 1926 (This calendar has been produced since 1926 and still is today)"The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to...
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A Brief Story of Christkindlmärkten (Christmas Markets)
Our story begins in the late Middle Ages in parts of the former Holy Roman Empire.The Christmas Fair by Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)The precursor to Christmas markets is thought to be Vienna’s...
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Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Legacy
"Now, I believe every one has had a Christmas present and a good time. Nobody has been forgotten, not even the cat," said Mrs. Ward to her daughter, as she looked at Pobbylinda, purring on the rug,...
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~⚜~ Our Home is our Nest ~⚜~
Our Home is our peaceful refuge, it is where we rest our weary soul;It is the place where we collect our amulets, where happiness is complete because there it is Love that dictates the law.It is the...
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"I'm glad that you're in contact with the forgotten descendants" - U.S....
Mr and Mrs James Longstreet ClevelandHAPSBURG (US) AND WIFE© Daniela Lasagnini"I'm glad that you're in contact with the forgotten descendants"That's a phrase taken from an e-mail I received some days...
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When the Mails was saved by a Clever Bolting Horse
A horse drawn mailcart ready to start and to deliver the mailThe intelligence of the horse is widely demostrated: he's able to reason, to discern and decide his behavior on the basis of his own...
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He failed to make her his mistress and crowned her Empress - Story of the...
Eugenia de Monijo in a portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1856)"The Emperor is courting the little Montijo" 1 wrote Lord Cowley, ambassador of England in Paris, to Lord John Russel.The year 1853...
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Living the old ways ~ Our Winter Sundays' breakfast
You know how much we do love living the old ways!As you know, I so love to keep alive ancient family traditions and costums and to learn and to make ours old uses which are still new to us.That's why,...
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ~ Sarah Biffin, the celebrated XIXth c. miniaturist born...
This is the story of an unique woman, a XIXth century painter famous for her impeccable miniature paintings, realistic artworks whose practically microscopic details were lauded as being some of the...
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Queen Elizabeth I. ~ The Virgin Queen and Her murderous youth mask
© ~ My Little Old World ~ Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England (the Armada Portrait), unknown artist, c. 1588, oil on panel, 38 1/2 in. x 28 1/2 in (97.8 mm x 72.4 cm), National Portrait Gallery,...
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The Art Noveau architectural style 'Leumann workers' Village'
The Leumann Village in a vintage postcard “It can be said that he was the precursor and creator of a very modern social policy, when class collaboration was a myth. He had only one cult in his life:...
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"In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy"
In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.~William Blake (1757-1827) from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-1793Durante il tempo della semina impara, in quello del raccolto insegna,...
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