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Celebrating the New Year coming 'In the Mould of the Iguanodon'.
Illustrated London News, January 7 1854, Add MS 50150, f. 225La vigilia del Capodanno del 1853, con l'intento di contribuire a promuovere la mostra permanente al Crystal Palace dove facevano esibizione...
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~ A step into Winter.
There's a certain Slant of light,Winter Afternoons -That oppresses, like the HeftOf Cathedral Tunes -Â Heavenly Hurt, it gives us -We can find no scar,But internal difference,Where the Meanings, are...
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Empress Josephine & the Fortune Teller.
Probabilmente il nome di M.lle Lenormand non dice nulla a molti di noi, oggi,Josef Danhauser (1805 - 1845), Neapoleon & Â Josephine with the Card Reader.ma durante il periodo napoleonico ella era la...
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VICTORIAN LADIES' PASTIMES: how to make wax flowers.
Avete in mente quei drawing rooms o salottini da conversazione vittoriani, riservati alle Ladies, un po' bui, con ampi pesanti tendoni festonati, spesso in velluto, al balcone, con il caminetto il cui...
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Sir John Vanbrugh, famous Georgian dramatist and architect for delight, and...
Under this stone, reader, survey,Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay.Lie heavy on him, Earth! For heLaid many heavy loads on thee!Sotto questa pietra, lettore, pensa, vi è la casa di argilla del...
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Franziska (Fanny) Angerer Feifalik, Sisi's hairdresser and occasional...
C'è una fotografia che gli Asburgo ci hanno tramandato e che conosciamo come uno degli ultimi scatti che ritrae l'anziana imperatrice, ormai incanutita, con la devota Ida von Ferenczy, compagna fedele...
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A romantic tea for two.
“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,curtains flowing in ample draperies to...
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The 'Petticoat Duellists' of 1792 and of 1892.
Quando pensiamo ad una Lady, sia essa del XVIII o del XIX secolo, immediatamente la nostra mente ci suggerisce ritratti leggiadri che comunicano eleganza, delicatezza, fragilità ... tale è quanto il...
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It happened on February 27th,1827.
Quell'anno il 27 di febbraio non cadeva di lunedì, bensì di martedì, e lo sappiamo con assoluta certezza, senza consultare alcun almanacco ... Accadde oggi, il 27 febbraio dell'anno 1827.... Il 27 di...
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Albert (Albrecht) Samuel Anker, how life in a Swiss XIXth century village was.
"One has to shape an ideal in one's imagination, and then one has to make that ideal accessible to the people."Albert (Albrecht) Samuel Anker (1831 - 1910)Die Kleinen Stricker (?)"Ci si deve formare un...
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~ "What Shall we Have for Dinner ?" ~ Catherine Hogart, the forgotten wife of...
CATHERINE THOMPSON DICKENS, NEE' HOGART ...E' questa una figura lasciata in ombra dalla storia, forse perché parzialmente oscurata dal genio letterario del marito, il celebre e già celebrato in epoca...
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Jane Austen's poor sight and death due to arsenic poisoning ?
Of events her life was singularly barren: few changes and no great crisis ever broke the smooth current of its course. […] I have therefore scarcely any materials for a detailed life of my aunt; but I...
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Cookies scented with violets, bringing Spring into your home !
 I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blowsWhere oxlips and the nodding violet growsQuite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:There sleeps Titania some time...
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Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'.
 The noblest mind the best contentment has.           The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I, St. 35.Elizabeth I, The Rainbow Portrait (1600) attribuito a Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger...
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PARIS IN BLOOM by Georgianna Lane.
Did you ever happened to have a dialogue with a book?What I'm talking you about is a dialogue made of of feelings, evocations, of emotions that the book arouses in us both with its images and its text,...
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The 'Downstairs' side of Country House Life.
Gossip on the Stairs, Otto Erdmann (1834 - 1905)Sapete ormai quanto ami il mondo che durante il periodo vittoriano ed edoardiano si muoveva 'Downstairs' ossia nei locali che erano collocati sotto le...
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To welcome Easter in the simplest of ways
Today I'm sharing just a few Easter decorations I composed to welcome these festive days which this year mark the pinnacle of our Spring in bloom: I've just let my heart drive me to use the simplest...
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FRIENDSHIP IS ...TO SHARE A CUP OF TEA - The Enchanting Rose 10th Tea Cup &...
“I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of...
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Lines Written in Early Spring: William Wordsworth, the Romanticism in the...
Lines Written in Early Spring.I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature...
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The Hermesvilla in Wien, Sisi - Queen Titania's Retreat.
Era l'estate del 1881 quando il Kaiser Franz Joseph, stanco di doversi separare, talvolta anche per lungo tempo, dalla sua amata Sisi che mal tollerava la vita di corte e che non appena poteva lasciava...
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