For Throwback Thursday, a blog post I wrote on a wedding dress in my 2021 exhibition, Elegant New York. Note that this is the earliest example of a gown with a maker's label, as far as I'm aware (take that, Charles Frederick Worth)! @fashionhistory@histodons#FashionHistory#19thcentury
“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”
Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous #collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life
Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".
Programme:
📸 Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
📸 Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
📸 Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes
A SCANDALOUS 1865 DIVORCE case offers a window into New York high society—the defendant was a cousin of Edith Wharton, no less—and the time’s changing attitudes about marriage, women’s rights, and sexuality. Great balance of gossip and context. B PLUS
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."