A subtle flirt in the garden by mairithetree
“It’s a pity you always hide your face underneath these hats. You should reveal yourself more, my dear.” 💕
For Pride Month, a sapphic romance set during the 18th century in the park 🥰 The dresses are “robes à la française”, I took inspiration from these photos : link, link, link & link ! It took me some time to finish it and I’m happy with how the dresses look ✨
This illustration is a companion piece of that one I did last year 💖: link
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"I do not know this woman especially well and most of the conversations we've had have been borderline adversarial. None of our interactions could even charitably be described as courting. I have not in any way suggested to her that I am desperately in love with her, and in fact she may think I rather dislike her. Better propose ASAP, in as abrupt a manner as possible."
Fitzwilliam Darcy 🤝 John Thornton
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Permission to be a nerdy expert and deeply thirsty for two minutes.
I am begging - begging - fashion writers et al to realise that “Victorian” is a specific time period and place, not an entire century. And if you must insist on the Darcy comparison (about which more anon), then recognise that Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, aka the Georgian/Regency period. (Victoria wouldn’t become queen for almost two decades.)
And that being said: I stand by my read of the whole look being far more 1830s European Romantic.
Now that I’ve got my nerdy twitching out of the way: I would like to hear more about the whole “making a shirt that’s nicely oversized and designed to be opened like that” design process please and thank you. 😘
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the dancing dead
in a "Vergänglichkeitsbuch" ("book of evanescence"), german illustrated manuscript, swabia, 16th c.
source: Stuttgart, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen A III 54, fol. 89v
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Marsden Hartley (Portrait of) Adelard, the Drowned Master of the "Phantom." 1939. Oil on board: 71 × 56 cm (28 × 22 in).
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Francis Lewis was born in Yarmouth, MA in 1730 as Deborah Lewis. Later he and his family moved to Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard and he began living as a man in 1764. He married a young woman named Anne Luce in November 1765 and they had at least five children together!
An article in the 1770 edition of the Boston Evening-Post stated that because Lewis was born "bearing a similarity of both Sexes, it was disputed what apparel it should be dressed in, but 'twas at last agreed to dress it in Women's."
Here he is in a 1790 census from Tisbury:
Several notices were posted in New England newspapers upon his death.
In the Essex Register-January 22nd:
"In Tisbury, (M. Vineyard) Mr Francis Lewis, aged 93—32 of which years he dressed as a woman, and was supposed to be such. After that, he took his proper apparel as a man, and passed the remainder of his life in the marriage state, and has left numerous descendants."
The Connecticut Courant -January 28th
"At Tisbury, (M[assachusett]s.) Mr. Francis Lewis, aged 93—32 of which years he dressed as a woman, and was supposed to be such. After that, he took his proper apparel as a man, and passed the remainder of his life in the marriage state, and has left numerous descendants. The family has always deserved and received the respect of those who knew it."
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Janeite/18th-19th century literature youtuber who at the end of every episode lists their patreon supporters after saying "I enjoy the privilege of the patronage and condescension of the following:"
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