April 2010
HISTORIFUL: How to Host a Victorian Picnic →
Seen as an escape from daily rituals and formal luncheons, picnics grew immensely popular among Victorians. In particular, they were associated with hunting and other outdoor activities for their practical, refreshing nature. Queen Victoria herself was well known to have picnicked many times with…
HISTORIFUL: On Hairstyles (The Delineator, 1881) →
The following is an excerpt from the June 1881 edition of The Delineator. It provides a concise overview of current hairstyles as well as proper looks for specific face types.
“NOTWITHSTANDING the rebellion of the hair-dressers, simplicity reigns today over the tresses of the fashionable…
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis (via moderndayfairytale, thingssheloves) (via breathingbooks)
“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your...”
– Douglas Adams (via kari-shma) (via fuckyeahdouglasadams)
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“Queen and guttersnipe of cities, cynosure and cesspool of the world: not if I had a hundred tongues, every one shouting a different language in a different key, could I do justice to her splendid chaos. The most beautiful and the most squalid, girdled with a twofold zone of parks and slums; where the keen air from the lake and prairie is ever in the nostrils and the...
“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and...”
– The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis (Submitted by: christinakim) (via quote-book)
“When Shakespeare died in Stratford it was not an event. It made no more stir in...”
– Mark Twain in Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via libraryland)
