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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: January 2013
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On Sunday I spent a wonderful afternoon visiting the exhibition Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men. At the Museum of London. The exhibition stems from the discoveries made during an archaeological dig at the old burial ground of the Royal London Hospital (find out more here. The exhibition was fascinating and really well presented, and contributed to a swirling mass of incomplete ideas I have recently been exploring about the role of death and possessions in Our Mutual Friend. The 1832 Anatomy Act ...
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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: Some thoughts on recipe books and collections
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Some thoughts on recipe books and collections. Two blog posts in a week! Today I've written about recipe books and collecting. Over on the blog for the upcoming conference (which you really ought to register for) ' Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945. You can read my post, where I try to make sense of my cookery scrapbook, here. Sunday, January 19, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a PhD student at the University of Warwick, researching Victorians and their collections.
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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: October 2012
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Some literature on collecting seems to suggest that the pursuit of a collection is a wholesome hobby in childhood, but a sinister one in an adult. In his otherwise admirable book Touch. In fact, Susan Pearce's comprehensive study of collecting behaviours, On Collecting. In the process of collecting for the crabby collection. 65279; In the nineteenth century, children were actively encouraged to start collections. It was felt to be an enriching and worthwhile pastime. Instruction m...Published in 1888&#...
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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: June 2013
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Anti-scrape and The Red House. In the 1950s the house came into the ownership of the Hollamby family, who lived there with friends for many years, and in 2003 it came into the possession of the National Trust, who have been uncovering its secrets ever since. Settle in the hallway at Red House, with painting by William Morris partially completed. Image source. Wool and silk embroidered panel. Image source. Part way through conservation of the Lizzie Siddal wall painting, with some wallpaper still to be sc...
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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: September 2012
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Collectors at Calke Abbey. Yesterday I took a trip to sunny Derbyshire with my Mum and Sister to visit Calke Abbey. A National Trust property tucked away down a long winding drive, near the village of Ticknall. All images either my own or courtesy of Helen Addyman. Taxidermy dioramas in the Saloon. Display case of shells in the Saloon. Taking a closer look at stuffed Kingfishers in the Bird Lobby. Despite the huge number of items making up the collections, many pieces were lost to neglect over the years,...
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The Curious World of Victorian Collecting: January 2014
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Some thoughts on recipe books and collections. Two blog posts in a week! Today I've written about recipe books and collecting. Over on the blog for the upcoming conference (which you really ought to register for) ' Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945. You can read my post, where I try to make sense of my cookery scrapbook, here. Sunday, January 19, 2014. Association objects and contagion. By the time I delivered my paper on the last panel of the final day, my brain was fried. Fig 2 Lab...
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A Geometric Garden for Orpheus | The Genealogy of Style
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The Genealogy of Style. All the epigones find their own way. A Geometric Garden for Orpheus. 8220;This woman who was loved so much, that from. More mourning came than from women in mourning;. That a whole world was made from mourning, where. Everything was present once again: forest and valley. And road and village, field, river, and animal;. And that around this mourning-world, just as. Around the other earth, a sun. And a silent star-filled sky wheeled,. Orpheus, Eudydice, Hermes. A Garden for Orpheus.
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From the Remaining Chord | The Genealogy of Style
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The Genealogy of Style. All the epigones find their own way. From the Remaining Chord. Hope, George Frederic Watts, 1886. Is a Symbolist oil painting by George Frederic Watts. Two versions of which were completed in 1886. The painting was intended to form part of a series of allegorical paintings by Watts entitled the. Suggested that a better title would be Despair. The Wheel of Fortune. Watts may have been inspired by the pose of the siren in Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Wheel of Fortune. Hmm, these are ...
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Sketches and vignettes from la Dordogne: 2015-04-05
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Sketches and vignettes from la Dordogne. Sunday, 5 April 2015. Giving birth to the "New Provincial Lady". I guess all first lines are difficult and if some of some of them come fluently, others cause pains and labour. Due to shyness sometimes. Well, due to shyness in all cases when it comes to me! And in this particular case, due to numerous causes of shyness. Here we go then: second, I digress a lot, and I don't feel bloggers should be digressing, not those I read anyway. Because I have made friends who...
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Sketches and vignettes from la Dordogne: Holidaying in the Dordogne: Périgueux
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Sketches and vignettes from la Dordogne. Friday, 31 July 2015. Holidaying in the Dordogne: Périgueux. Have you packed your backpacks, taken bottles of mineral water, sun proof cream, cereal bars and, in case of a shower, a light waterproof? Have you got your walking shoes? Yes Then all is right because today The Little Family takes you on a trip to Périgueux. View of Périgeux from the Isle River. Ie the main administrative town of the département. Metropolitan France being divided in 95 départements.
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