The first two diary entries, which describe the arrival of a feral girl at the cliff-house.
Tag: Victorian
Found this and simply wanted to share
There’s a new look trending, but it’s looking a lot like the old one. Where fashion and finance blurr
As we had no lessons to-day, and had only to care for yesterday’s catch, Clara and I used the time to attend to our journals. We have to-day made a…
Entry 168: Ellen collects heating stones with Clara
Shunned by Victorian society at every turn, the residents of a cliff-top boarding house build a society of their own.
Intense and passionate friendships among women in the 19th century were considered normal and healthy. This was, of course, before the spectre of homosexuality ruined everything.
This 1898 article is meant to make smashing sound unattractive.
From ‘Street Life in London’, 1877, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith In his savage state, whether inhabiting the marshes of Equatorial Africa, or the mountain ranges of Formosa, man…