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Gisela, Sisi's estranged daughter
The Kaiser portrayed with Gisela and Rudolf in 1860Gisella Louise Marie was born at 5.30 on July 12th, 1856 at Laxenburg Castle.She was baptized Gisella, with two 'l', but she will always write her...
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VICTORIAN LADIES' WORKS OF ART: Making Jewels with Hair
If you do reflect upon it, nothing lasts forever...Sometimes a love ends,sometimes a friendship fades away...How many bonds can deteriorate.But cut a lock of hair to the person you love,and it will...
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The Oread Institute in Worcester (MASS.), the first College for Girls in History
Saturday, March 19, 1853, the GLEASON'S PICTORIAL of Boston read:THE OREAD INSTITUTE, WORCESTER, MASS.,[...] is a Female Collegiate Seminary, founded in 1848, by Eli Thayer, A. M., the present...
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Marija Alexandrovna Romanova, Queen Victoria's daughter-in-law who hated Her
Loved and esteemed by Her people, or maybe we should say by the entire Old Continent, revered by Her whole family, by sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and grandchildren, Queen Victoria had close to her...
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The Pilgrims and Christmas celebrations
Christmas is a piece of one’s Home that one carries in one’s Heart. Freya Stark (1893-1993)A Fair Pilgrim by Edward Percy Moran (1862-1935)That's how we all do feel Christmas today, but Christmas, as...
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☆:* Curiosities about Christmas ~ Roots of lexicon and traditions *:☆
FIRST OF ALL, WHERE DOES THE WORD 'CRISTMAS' COME FROM?On December 25, 1038, as reported by an Anglo-Saxon news of the time, the expression "Cristes Maessam" was used for the first time, the Mass of...
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Holly, symbol of Christmas, in legends, myths, history
"In December, in the misty forests,only the holly adorned itself for the rebirthfrom the sun to the palest equinox.Standing in its greener and more solid mantle,taking shape against the sad crowd of...
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The Holiday Season Atmosphere in Blume-Siebert's paintings
Weihnachten- Nach dem Schenken, 1888Ludwig Blume-Siebert was a famous German illustrator and painter of intimate family scenes in which children and pets were often present.Born in Arolsen - today Bad...
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The Twelfth Night Cake
"Upon the table was an immense dish, and in the dish was the biggest Twelfth-Cake that the eyes of childhood had ever beheld. It was a positive monster, and whitened sugar of the most approved kind...
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Fanny & Stella ~ The Young Men who shocked Victorian England
Sisters. Side by side and shoulder to shoulder. Sisters for better and for worse.”All Cracks are found so full of AilsA New Society prevailsCall'd Sodomites; Men worse than GoatsWho dress themselves in...
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HISTORY OF FASHION ~ Early Victorian Winter Mantelet or Mantlet
Two young Victorian ladies wearing mantlets according to 1850s fashionWHAT IS A MANTLE CLOTHINGCoats can have many names, but similar terms like mantles and mantelets are confusing. A mantle was...
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"Godmersham Park" by Gill Hornby, a delightful jump back in time to Jane...
A Fireside Read by William Mulready (1786-1863)The story I'm telling you today takes place in the year 1804: we're in England, and the story is Anne Sharp's. She was a young well-do-to woman who coming...
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The Empress' Scents: rose and violet water and "Fantasia de Fleurs" by Creed
It is said that you cannot buy class and elegant people like Her are hard to come by, even today.History tells that the Empress of Austria, Who became an icon of beauty and style for Her grace and...
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Amos Bronson Alcott, Abigail May and Orchard House, Little Women's 'nest'
Surely, dear father, some good angel or elf dropped a talisman in your cradle that gave you force to walk thro life in quiet sunshine while others groped in the dark...~ Louisa May Alcott to her...
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Irish linen and Victorian "spinsters"
Today I'd love to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with you by recalling a tradition linked to the precious "Emerald Isle", as Ireland is commonly called in English, since its hills boast countless shades...
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Boxing with Byron
LORD BYRON SPARRING WITH JOE "GENTLEMAN" JACKSONHow many things did Lord George Byron do in his, albeit short, life?We have met him several times during our walks through History and we can say,...
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⊰ Victorian Spring and Easter Traditions ⊱
For much of History, Easter was a more festive day then Christmas and, as it happened for this last one's traditions we still preserve today, the Victorians brought us also the evolution of Easter...
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"Twas Easter-Sunday."
"Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy."Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American literate,1807-1882)“For I remember it is Easter morn, and Life and...
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MARIA ENRICHETTA. DA VIENNA A BRUXELLES UN’ASBURGO REGINA DEI BELGI di...
Ebbene sì, dalla fine del mese sarà in vendita il mio ultimo libro, scritto nei mesi della scorsa estate e dell'autunno, una biografia storica di un personaggio la cui conoscenza coltivo da anni con...
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Some others Victorians' oddish inventions
During our several walks through the History of the Victorian Age, we have come to see that the Victorians really were very ingenious people. There were far many inventions patented at the time, many...
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