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New Year
Baby New Year selling baking powder, inside the front cover of Good Housekeeping, January, 1896.
New Year article:
Maxims for the New Year (1889)
New Year poems:
Another Year (Poem--1896)
The Old and the New (Poem--1890)
Welcomes and Adieus (Poem—1896)
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Valentine's Day
Get this on a cardValentine for Columbia Bicycles and Tricycles. For more like this see Cycling and Romantic Images.
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Victorian valentine with bicycling boys
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Victorian valentine with bicycling girls
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Victorian valentine
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Lent
Easter
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May Day
Sukkot
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Victorian Sukkot die-cut
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Victorian Sukkot die-cut
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Hallowe'en
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Victorian ghost story trade card. Note the similarity between the woman and a young Queen Victoria, and the corresponding similarity between the portrait in the background and Victoria's consort Prince Albert. Coincidence? I think not!
Victorian ghost story trade card. Note the similarity between the woman and a young Queen Victoria, and the corresponding similarity between the portrait in the background and Victoria's consort Prince Albert. Coincidence? I think not!
Links to articles appropriate to Hallowe'en:
All Hallow's Eve (1895)
A Supernatural Swindle (Fiction—1896)
The Children of Arachne: European Spiders (1889)
Great Grandma's Hallowe'en (Poem —1887)
Mourning and Mourners (1888)
All Hallow's Eve (1895)
A Supernatural Swindle (Fiction—1896)
The Children of Arachne: European Spiders (1889)
Great Grandma's Hallowe'en (Poem —1887)
Mourning and Mourners (1888)
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Thanksgiving
For more like this see Animals.
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Christmas
For more like this see Dining.
For more like this see Flowers.
Winter holiday articles:
Winter Solstice—"Christmas and Ancestor Worship" Origins of ancient rituals (1881, external link)
Winter Solstice / Christmas--Winter Cheer (Poem—1888)
Christmas A Christmas Glee (Poem—1890)
Christmas—A Pine-Cone Christmas (1890)
Christmas--A Midwinter-Night's Dream (1883)
Christmas Pensees (Poem—1890)
Santa Claus in Our Village (1889)
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Winter Solstice—"Christmas and Ancestor Worship" Origins of ancient rituals (1881, external link)
Winter Solstice / Christmas--Winter Cheer (Poem—1888)
Christmas A Christmas Glee (Poem—1890)
Christmas—A Pine-Cone Christmas (1890)
Christmas--A Midwinter-Night's Dream (1883)
Christmas Pensees (Poem—1890)
Santa Claus in Our Village (1889)
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In a seaport town in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, a group of friends find themselves drawn together —by chance, by love, and by the marvelous changes their world is undergoing. In the process, they learn that the family we choose can be just as important as the ones we're born into. Join their adventures in
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Anthologies
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From Victorian beauty regimes to nineteenth-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the twenty-first century.
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In her first book, Victorian Secrets, Chrisman recalled the first year she spent wearing a Victorian corset 24/7. In This Victorian Life, Chrisman picks up where Secrets left off and documents her complete shift into living as though she were in the nineteenth century.
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Available on
Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?
From Victorian beauty regimes to nineteenth-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the twenty-first century.
Most of us have dreamed of time travel, but what if that dream could come true? Certain universal constants remain steady for all people regardless of time or place. No matter where, when, or who we are, humans share similar passions and fears, joys and triumphs.
In her first book, Victorian Secrets, Chrisman recalled the first year she spent wearing a Victorian corset 24/7. In This Victorian Life, Chrisman picks up where Secrets left off and documents her complete shift into living as though she were in the nineteenth century.
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Photos of various women
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