#19thC is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 10 people shared 27 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 50% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 31 with 3 posts.

Posts with #19thC

Deidre Lynch

@drbibliomane.bsky.social

5 days ago

Regency-era mugs, gifts for #19thc children who managed to stick to their books & learn to read. Their mottoes are grim but maybe necessary admonitions, too, for the academic who's soldiering on while coming to terms with the fact that it's August now. I.e. I feel seen. #AcademicLife

The motto painted on a red background on this little mug reads "Idleness Brings Disgrace."

The motto painted on the purple-ish background of this little mug is "Be Willing to do Well without Praise."

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Dr Laura Eastlake

@victorianmasc.bsky.social

1 day ago

As a child this one sentence, with its misleading context clues, from M.R. James's 'Number 13' led me to believe that 'stuepige' was a (frankly glorious, and much-needed) noun for the person who had committed an act of stupidity. I am to this day still sad that it means 'housemaid'. #19thC #stupid

'Such things rarely happen in Denmark, but some piece of stupidity had certainly been performed (which is not so uncommon), and the stuepige must be severely spoken to'

Clothbound cover of M R James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The font in an old Gothic style.

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Victorian Commons

@victoriancommons.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

A reminder of our latest post, in which Dr Philip Salmon explains who had the right to vote between 1832 and 1867. victoriancommons.wordpres…. #19thC #skystorians

victoriancommons.wordpress.com

Who could vote? From potwallopers to ten-pounders: post-1832 franchises explained

As part of a new series of ‘explainer’ articles, aimed at clarifying the workings of England’s historic political system, Philip Salmon examines who exactly could vote following the changes made by…

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Deidre Lynch

@drbibliomane.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

This poem by Mary Robinson, published in The Morning Post in 1800, addressed to that newspaper's "Type," really must be the only poem about a typeface (as well as in a typeface) written in the #19thc. (But, gosh, I would be happy to hear of others.) Here are the first 2 stanzas. #BookHistory

To the New Type of the Morning Post (27 January 1800)
Ye Sable Legions, here you stand/ A thousand Subjects to command!/ All dimly clad in leaden mail,/ To triumph o'er your Victim pale!/To blur the white and spotless scene,/ And sport your Columns dark between! Ye Sable Legions! Fate decrees// That, 'midst your triumphs, you should please;/ That Mirth and Wisdom should combine/ To regulate each blacking line;/That Wit should in your Ranks appear, And Beauty drop the frequent tear,/When tales of tnender sorrow prove/ That Souls of Lead can yield to Love."

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Deidre Lynch

@drbibliomane.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Horace Walpole's 1746 scheme for taxing ladies' calling cards (a satiric essay the Gothic novelist published in the periodical The Museum) led me down a research 🐇hole last night & led me to #19thc printed "escort cards" aka "flirtation cards." Do you all know about these little paper bits? I WANT!

Little bit of printed orange cardboard labelled 'Escort Card' with an epigraph "Gaze on this picture, then on that." It pictures a rooster and a donkey. The message is addressed to a "Fair Lady": "May I become the proud bird who shall accompany you to your leafy bower, or must I suffer the misery of seeing you borne away in triumph by the individual whose chromo tintype appears at the right.

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Cassidy Percoco

@mimicofmodes.com

over 1 year ago

Incredible 1890s gym suit of navy and red wool or cotton, in the form of a middy blouse and mid-calf-length bloomers. The main garment is navy, with the red used for the revers, cuffs, dickey, and sash. Also has a pair of flat leather shoes. 🗃️🪡 #19thc

The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social

Gym suit https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/159463

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Albert Ogden in memory of Sheldon Stewart, 1964

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Deidre Lynch

@drbibliomane.bsky.social

7 months ago

I am just reeling after finishing the translation of Sibylle Grimert's 2022 novel The Last of its Kind, the story of a #19thc French naturalist who finds himself companion to the last surviving great auk. About loss, extinction, ethics, other minds, it's also a subtle response to Frankenstein.

Cover of the Last of Its Kind: a novel by Sibylle Grimbert, translated by Aleisha Jensen.
Black and white line drawing of a great auk in a rocky landscape

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Christie Stratos

@christiestratos.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Let’s travel! 1885 traveling ensemble. Three-piece black broadcloth ensemble. Fitted bodice with gathered shoulder cap continuing into yoke, and cloth-covered button closures. Frock jacket with tabbed pockets and short tails. Straight skirt with center back gore. —Augusta Auctions #19thc 🗃️ 🗃️🪡

All black traveling ensemble. Bodice is fitted, as are long sleeves. At each shoulder is wing-reminiscent black cloth that looks stiff to hold its shape. Perhaps it’s detachable in order to remove it so the wearer can then don the black frock jacket modeled next to it. Or perhaps the bodice would simply be removed altogether to wear the frock jacket. The frock jacket is plain, with black buttons off-center on the left side. Long sleeves have some height at the shoulder but otherwise look fitted.

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Christie Stratos

@christiestratos.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Wow, what an incredible historical piece! So much detail. 1778 copper plate-printed linen commemorative handkerchief depicting “The Royal Review Portsmouth” with fleet identified by name and number of guns. It's inked “Jane Godfrey, 1778”. The size is 29” x 27”. [Augusta Auctions] #19thc 🗃️ 🗃️🪡

Cream handkerchief with red design, including border. Depicts horses and riders, many ships in the sea, vessels identified along the bottom, names given as well. On the left is also a castle turret-like structure.

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Martin Spychal

@martinspychal.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

Thrilled to receive copies of my new book 🍾 🎉 One of the feline co-authors is also very excited about their new box! 🐈‍⬛ Thank you @uolpress.bsky.social. @victoriancommons.bsky.social @histparl.bsky.social #19thC #skystorians #parlysky

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Christie Stratos

@christiestratos.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

1840s green-gold "changeable" silk dress. The green and gold were woven in opposite directions—what an amazing look it creates! I love dresses like this and don't come across a lot of them. The details along each arm are so unique too. [Augusta Auctions] #19thc 🗃️ 🗃️🪡

Ribbed silk taffeta woven with light green and gold in opposing directions. Collarless deep V neckline, long fitted sleeves, fitted bodice ending in shallow center front point. Pleated, ruffled and cord trimmed fabric radiates from center bodice point to shoulders. Full gathered skirt trimmed with two vertical rows of self fabric bows down center front. Piped seams. Full glazed linen lining.

The shoulder and upper arm of the sleeves has ruffled caps laced with tasseled cords.

The forearms of the sleeves are laced with cord above wrists, and the cords end in the same tassel as the upper arm.

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Cassidy Percoco

@mimicofmodes.com

over 1 year ago

I wonder if this ca. 1870 gown might have been worn as a wedding dress when it was new. Anyway, just marveling over the density of that self-fabric trim on the skirts! All of those strips of silk are bound with bias bands on the top and bottom edges, which represents so much work. 🗃️🪡 #19thc