Posted in 19th century, literature, tagged 19th century, book, burnett, hodgson, little lord fauntleroy, nineteenth century, reading, travel literature, victorian on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a fragment from Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy, in which you can see a little bit of the customs regarding compliments in the later half of the nineteenth century:
“Come here, Lord Fauntleroy,” she said, smiling; “and tell me why you look at me so.”
“I was thinking how beautiful you are,” his young lordship replied. [...]
Posted in 19th century, history, tagged 19th century, victorian cooking, history, nineteenth century, circus, albinism on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a site with a collection of pictures of albinos in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It is quite interesting but also curious to see that really regular people were “collected” and exhibited in a circus, or photographed as something special!
Here are some of my fellow countrymen, with interesting hairdo.”>
Here are pictures of [...]
Posted in 19th century, architecture, history, victorian, tagged 19th century, flowers, gardening, gardens, history, victorian on February 1, 2009 | 10 Comments »
It would go too far to describe the entire history of gardening in the Nineteenth Century, so I’ll just give you some tidbits:
Wardian Case: The Wardian case was invented by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, in 1829. By accident he found out that his ferns grew very well in bottles, and he developed this idea to [...]
Posted in 19th century, history, victorian, tagged 19th century, history, july monarchy, nineteenth century, politics, victorian on July 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The July Monarchy (1830-1848) was established in France with the reign of Louis Philippe of France. His predecessor, Charles X, was abdicated during the July Revolution. This revolution had been launched in July of 1830 by the merchant bourgeoisie, who were outraged to be ousted from the limited voters list.
The July Monarchy was a period [...]
Posted in 19th century, artists, history, people, victorian, tagged 19th century, artist, denmark, sculpting, sculptor, thorvaldsen, victorian on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen in 1770 (according to some accounts, in 1768), the son of an Icelander who had settled in Denmark and there carried on the trade of a wood-carver. This account is disputed by some Icelanders, who claim Thorvaldsen was born in Iceland.
Young Thorvaldsen attended Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det [...]
Posted in 19th century, history, lifestyle, literature, people, victorian, tagged 19th century, boredom, ennui, frierich, goethe, literature, mal du siecle, romanticism, victorian, weltschmerz on May 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Before I start, I would like to link you to the website Curious Expeditions, which I think is very great and you might think so too.
Mal du Siecle is closely related to Weltschmertz (though the latter seems to have started a little earlier. The most famous sufferer of Weltschmertz is Goethe’s Young Werther.) Both [...]
Posted in 19th century, history, people, victorian, tagged 19th century, fun facts, health, left-handed, links, medicine, science, scientific, trivia, victorian on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Victorian health and medicine
Some Victorian trivia
Were left-handed people repressed?
Posted in 19th century, cooking, history, lifestyle, victorian, tagged 19th century, beverages, coffee, coffeehouses, history, nineteenth century, victorian, well-researched ;) on April 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Coffee appeared in Europe for the first time in the 17th century. Not long after, the example of the Ottoman Empire was followed, and coffee houses were build. The drink and new establishements soon became immensely popular.
The first coffee houses appeared in Venice, due to the trade of this city [...]
Posted in 19th century, history, literature, victorian, tagged 19th century, austen, jane austen, literature, victorian, victorian era on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To give you information about Jane Austen in general would be, I guess, a little superfluous. Instead, I’ll link you to my favourite Austen blog, my favourite Austen book, a Jane Austen action figure (!), and the beautiful portrait that was in the news a lot recently.
Posted in 19th century, architecture, history, people, places to go, victorian, tagged 19th century, bavaria, castles, fairytale castles, fairytales, germany, history, ludwig, ludwig II, nineteenth century on February 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As a follow-up to my post about Ludwig II of Bavaria, a post about the castles he built.
I think in his time, Ludwig might be seen in the same manner we regard someone like Michael Jackson, and his castles remind of MJ’s Neverland Ranch.
The most impressive castle is Neuschwanstein, which was built by Ludwig II [...]
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