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**Sini Tuulia** @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe · 17h

Sini Tuulia @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe

Meanwhile, in old magazines... This lady has eyeglasses! Sure, they're in her hand, but that's quite nice. A lot of the time the illustrated models are rather just one type (nothing new under the sun) but this issue of the Delineator has not only bonkers fashion, also some more interesting illustrations.

A fashion plate or illustration from The Delineator, with a woman in an ensemble holding a pair of small pince-nez glasses held aloft. She is wearing a hat with tall decorations and a two part dress with a false vest front. With full sleeves and wide lapels and a very flared trumpet shape skirt, her silhouette is pretty elaborate. There are bands of black and alternating texture on her skirt, which doesn't actually look as good as it should. But she herself looks nice and spirited, with her held glasses!

#Victorian #Ephemera #HistoricalFashion

**Distributed Proofreaders** @DProofreaders@universeodon.com · 1d

Distributed Proofreaders @DProofreaders@universeodon.com

Distributed Proofreaders celebrates its 49,000th title for Project
Gutenberg: The Trail of the Serpent, a Victorian sensation novel by M.E.
Braddon https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/04/12/celebrating-49000-titles/ #ebooks #Victorian #thriller

Hot off the Press · 1dCelebrating 49,000 TitlesThis post celebrates the 49,000th unique title Distributed Proofreaders has posted to Project Gutenberg: The Trail of the Serpent, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Congratulations and thanks to all the D…

**Excessively Diverting** @beexcessivelydiverting@mastodon.online · 1d

Excessively Diverting @beexcessivelydiverting@mastodon.online

I've said this before, but it does bear repeating: As 2025 marches on, loads and loads of articles on Austen and her 250th will be published. But each story I've read so far has its own hook, so it is worth publishing.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/mar/23/bath-balls-and-darcys-pile-where-to-celebrate-jane-austens-250th-anniversary

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

The Guardian · Mar 23Bath, balls and Darcy’s pile: where to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversaryBy Annabelle Thorpe

**Lorna Peel** @LornaPeel@mastodon.ie · 2d

Lorna Peel @LornaPeel@mastodon.ie

Escape to 19th-century Ireland with The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series.

Books 1-9 box sets - http://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets

#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries #BooksByLornaPeel #FamilySaga #HistoricalFiction #19thCentury #Victorian #Dublin #Ireland #IrishFiction #IrishBooks #IrishHistoricalFiction #BooksSetInIreland #KindleUnlimited @bookstodon

Escape to 19th-century Ireland with The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series.

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**Art of Goulwen R** @art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art · 2d

Art of Goulwen R @art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art

Shameless self-promotion day. Show us what you're proud of. Let's boost away.

It couldn't have come at a better time! Spread it

The Chapter Two is available now on my Ko-fi!
https://ko-fi.com/nautilebleu/shop/comic

or , paper or digital, single issue or combined with the Chapter One!

#comics #comicbooks #indycomics #horror #victorian #steampunk #art #MastoArt #artwork #artoftheday #bd #fediart #CreativeToots
#ScribesAndMakers 2025-04-12

[Ill: Cover & interiors of Esther & Érié Chapter Two]

Photo of the Cover of Chapter Two, another take on Esther and Erie standing on a pier at sunset.

Esther is leaning against the railing, and looks away. She wears a burgundy bustle dress with apron and ruffles, a dark green jacket, with matched elbow length gloves and a hat.

Erie stands behind her mistress, she wears a parme dress, with a knot on the neck. She has a headband in her hair.

Arctiques terns fly in the background.

Back cover and first page of Chapter Two. On the left, the back cover presents the table of contents and legal information. On the right the first page tells the meeting between Esther and Lady d'Arcy (and Erié)

Pages 16 and 17: Esther and Erié walk along the shore

Pages 26 and 27, taking up the story told on the occasion of Inktober 2024, The Human Chair, or how Victor Albert Duc de Clarence met Lady d'Arcy

**Feral Strumpet** @FeralStrumpet@handmade.social · 2d

Feral Strumpet @FeralStrumpet@handmade.social

This rustic necklace is inspired by vintage, Victorian brass stampings and features a detailed celestial moon in smiling profile.

- This brass statement necklace features elaborate victorian filigree & Czech glass beads in organic shapes as accents
- Necklace measures 15 1/2" or 39 cm with a 2" or 5cm extender
- Closes with a brass lobster clasp
- Extender chain adorned with a small faux French jet drop

https://feralstrumpet.com/products/rustic-victorian-crescent-moon-necklace

The rustic brass moon pendant necklace described in the previous photographs, this time photographed hanging on a white mannequin neck. Necklace is choker length, measuring 15.5 inches or 39 cm.

#Moon #Handmade #Jewellery

**Excessively Diverting** @beexcessivelydiverting@mastodon.online · 2d

Excessively Diverting @beexcessivelydiverting@mastodon.online

What Austen or the Brontës write about women and their financial standing in the 19th C is still going on in the 21st. Hell, women couldn't get their own credit cards until the early 1970s! #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

Light yellow background. Half of the image depicts a Georgian woman sitting at a desk. Above her head, it says, "Question of the week." To her left it says, "How does Austen or the Brontës portray the economic vulnerability of women?"

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2d

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“[Davidson] makes the case for those in the depth of hardship by the depiction of an ordinary husband and wife, suffering inescapably, but maintaining a grip on their powers of resilience and love.”

—Carol Rumens on John Davidson’s “Villanelle” – “A still potent vision of a Glasgow family in poverty at the end of the 19th century, clinging on to hope.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/23/poem-of-the-week-villanelle-by-john-davidson

The Guardian · Dec 23, 2024Poem of the week: Villanelle by John DavidsonBy Carol Rumens

#Scottish #literature #poetry

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2d *

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Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“As a condition-of-England poem, ‘A Northern Suburb’ rings bells louder than a Royal wedding, even today.”

John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many Modernist poets such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot & Hugh MacDiarmid

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson

The Guardian · Apr 18, 2011Poem of the week: A Northern Suburb by John DavidsonBy Carol Rumens

#Scottish #literature #poetry

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2d

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

I couldn’t touch a stop and turn a screw,
And set the blooming world a-work for me,
Like such as cut their teeth—I hope, like you—
On the handle of a skeleton gold key…

—“Thirty Bob a Week”, by the 19th-century poet, playwright & novelist John Davidson (1857–1909) – born #OTD, 11 April. A

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Page images from THE YELLOW BOOK vol. 2, 1894 – available on @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41876/41876-h/41876-h.htm#Page_99

John Davidson
Thirty Bob a Week

I couldn’t touch a stop and turn a screw,
And set the blooming world a-work for me,
Like such as cut their teeth—I hope, like you—
On the handle of a skeleton gold key.
I cut mine on a leek, which I eat it every week:
I’m a clerk at thirty bob as you can see.

But I don’t allow it’s luck and all a toss;
There’s no such thing as being starred and crossed;
It’s just the power of some to be a boss,
And the bally power of others to be bossed:
I face the music, sir; you bet I ain’t a cur!
Strike me lucky if I don’t believe I’m lost!

For like a mole I journey in the dark,
A-travelling along the underground
From my Pillar’d Halls and broad suburban Park
To come the daily dull official round;
And home again at night with my pipe all alight
A-scheming how to count ten bob a pound.

And it’s often very cold and very wet;
And my missis stitches towels for a hunks;
And the Pillar’d Halls is half of it to let—
Three rooms about the size of travelling trunks.
And we cough, my wife and I, to dislocate a sigh,
When the noisy little kids are in their bunks.

But you never hear her do a growl or whine,
For she’s made of flint and roses, very odd;
And I’ve got to cut my meaning rather fine
Or I’d blubber, for I’m made of greens and sod:
So p’rhaps we are in hell for all that I can tell,
And lost and damn’d and served up hot to God.

I ain’t blaspheming, Mr. Silvertongue;
I’m saying things a bit beyond your art:
Of all the rummy starts you ever sprung
Thirty bob a week’s the rummiest start!
With your science and your books and your the’ries about spooks,
Did you ever hear of looking in your heart?

I didn’t mean your pocket, Mr., no!
I mean that having children and a wife,
With thirty bob on which to come and go,
Isn’t dancing to the tabor and the fife;
When it doesn’t make you drink, by Heaven! it makes you think,
And notice curious items about life.

I step into my heart and there I meet
A god-almighty devil singing small,

Who would like to shout and whistle in the street,
And squelch the passers flat against the wall;
If the whole world was a cake he had the power to take,
He would take it, ask for more, and eat them all.

And I meet a sort of simpleton beside—
The kind that life is always giving beans;
With thirty bob a week to keep a bride
He fell in love and married in his teens;
At thirty bob he stuck, but he knows it isn’t luck;
He knows the seas are deeper than tureens.

And the god-almighty devil and the fool
That meet me in the High Street on the strike,
When I walk about my heart a-gathering wool,
Are my good and evil angels if you like;
And both of them together in every kind of weather
Ride me like a double-seated “bike”.

That’s rough a bit and needs its meaning curled;
But I have a high old hot un in my mind,
A most engrugious notion of the world
That leaves your lightning ’rithmetic behind:
I give it at a glance when I say “There ain’t no chance,
Nor nothing of the lucky-lottery kind.”

And it’s this way that I make it out to be:
No fathers, mothers, countries, climates—none!—
Not Adam was responsible for me;
Nor society, nor systems, nary one!
A little sleeping seed, I woke—I did, indeed—
A million years before the blooming sun.

I woke because I thought the time had come;
Beyond my will there was no other cause:
And everywhere I found myself at home
Because I chose to be the thing I was;
And in whatever shape, of mollusc, or of ape,
I always went according to the laws.

I was the love that chose my mother out;
I joined two lives and from the union burst;
My weakness and my strength without a doubt
Are mine alone for ever from the first.
It’s just the very same with a difference in the name
As “Thy will be done.” You say it if you durst!

They say it daily up and down the land
As easy as you take a drink, it’s true;
But the difficultest go to understand,
And the difficultest job a man can do,
Is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week,
And feel that that’s the proper thing for you.

It’s a naked child against a hungry wolf;
It’s playing bowls upon a splitting wreck;
It’s walking on a string across a gulf
With millstones fore-and-aft about your neck:
But the thing is daily done by many and many a one . . .
And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

#Scottish #literature #poetry

**Excessively Diverting** @beexcessivelydiverting@mastodon.online · 3d

Excessively Diverting @beexcessivelydiverting@mastodon.online

I checked the website's validity before posting, and it is a nonpartisan UK daily paper, so it's a listicle with better-educated opinions. 2022 Persuasion is on here, which genuinely surprised me, considering all the hubbub, but hey, I also like it!

https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/jane-austen-adaptations-nine-best-3595860

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

The i Paper · Mar 24I've seen every Jane Austen adaptation - these are the nine worth watchingThe BBC's 1995 'Pride and Prejudice' may be the one to beat, but there's a screen version to please every one of the author's admirers

**Nearlyknowledgeable** @Amynearlyknowledgeable@mastodon.social · 4d

Nearlyknowledgeable @Amynearlyknowledgeable@mastodon.social

New Episode

Part two of our history of Beauty is now available! Take a nose dive into the make up bag of history and learn about how beauty standards have left their mark on society.

https://media.rss.com/the-shropshire-witches-podcast-pod1/feed.xml

#Beauty #History #Folklore