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Victorian Musings: January 2015
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8220;The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.” ― Alfred Tennyson. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. My review of The Witch of Painted Sorrows by MJ Rose. Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris. Expected publication: March 17th 2015 by Atria Books. Endymion by G.F. Watts RA (1817-1904) 1872 private collection. Sandrine's roma...
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Victorian Musings: August 2015
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8220;The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.” ― Alfred Tennyson. Friday, August 21, 2015. In Search of Alfred Tennyson: My week in Lincolnshire continued. Alfred Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron, albumen print, 1866. Original at Dimbola Lodge, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. Copy National Media Museum. Photographic images of his sons Hallam and Lionel Tennyson. My eyes looked at the small, shakingly black inked script handwriting of Alfred Tennyson. I gasped audibly and I couldn’...Alfred&...
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Victorian Musings: July 2015
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8220;The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.” ― Alfred Tennyson. Sunday, July 12, 2015. The Poetry of Lionel Tennyson (March 16, 1854-April 20, 1886). Alfred Browning Stanley Tennyson (20 November, 1878-28 February, 1952). Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson (8 November, 1879-22 June, 1977). Michael Sellwood Tennyson (10 December 1883-1954). I just love this photograph of Hallam and Lionel Tennyson by W. Jeffrey. The boys tutor, Francis Atkinson sits center, 1861. Atkinson took over. To read my r...
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The Downstairs Cook: April 2014
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Tell Your Mother Holborn's Still There! Tell your mother Holborn's still there! On the left, as the foundlings walk down Lambs Conduit Street from the gatehouse, they pass The Lamb, now a Grade II listed Victorian pub, at number 94. Another Victorian pub, The Pe...
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The Downstairs Cook: Mekons, the Edwardian Era & Today
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Mekons, the Edwardian Era and Today. In the spirit that fuelled the beginning of the punk era in the mid 1970s, long running post-punk band Mekons produced an album in 2011 entitled. Ancient and Modern 1911 - 2011. Was all that really just over a hundred years ago?
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The Downstairs Cook: October 2014
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, October 12, 2014. Ellen: An Act of Bastardy. Shrove Tuesday was a particular source of rowdiness, when a rabble regularly assembled and threw brickbats, potsherds, glass bottles and other dangerous missiles at the doors of the town's inhabitants. Guy Fawkes Night saw similar beh...
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The Downstairs Cook: Charlotte: After the Workhouse
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, January 8, 2017. Charlotte: After the Workhouse. Here she stayed for 12 months, nursing her own Lily Maud and other babies "sent to nurse". And presumably, she was given bed and board for her time spent there, feeding babes round the clock, on demand and as required. Was the crimina...
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The Downstairs Cook: Charlotte & the Workhouse
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Thursday, September 12, 2013. Charlotte and the Workhouse. Being pregnant, with no family in London and George now denying paternity, Charlotte arrived at the door of the Croydon Union Workhouse in late 1881. As related in. Calling: Servant - By whose order admitted: Ebbutt. It must have be...
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The Downstairs Cook: January 2017
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, January 8, 2017. Charlotte: After the Workhouse. Here she stayed for 12 months, nursing her own Lily Maud and other babies "sent to nurse". And presumably, she was given bed and board for her time spent there, feeding babes round the clock, on demand and as required. Was the crimina...
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The Downstairs Cook: February 2015
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Mekons, the Edwardian Era and Today. In the spirit that fuelled the beginning of the punk era in the mid 1970s, long running post-punk band Mekons produced an album in 2011 entitled. Ancient and Modern 1911 - 2011. Was all that really just over a hundred years ago?
