It’s a sepia-toned present-day image of Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman, a couple who are, in their own words, “engaged in a long-term experiential study of culture and technologies of the late 19th ...
Ruth Goodman is a rare person. She has not just researched the Victorian era, she has lived it. She has sewn its clothes, lived its conditions and done its work. Yes, she has washed floors in an ...
Sarah A. Chrisman has never had a cell phone or a driver’s license. She uses an ice box instead of a refrigerator, bakes her own bread, sews all of her own clothes by hand and washes them with either ...
Brush your teeth with soot, stay away from water, wear a steel corset. We’ll talk with the author of “How to Be A Victorian.” Strange ways from another age. Frederick Daniel Hardy's "Baby's Birthday" ...
Remember that old saying about not knowing a person until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes? Author Ruth Goodman has done that and then some. She’s walked in the shoes, corsets, dresses and nightgowns ...
For more than 50 years, American women have cast offconstrictive undergarments, which feminists have long criticized as symbols of repression. But for one Seattle resident, embracing the corset in the ...
There are a few kinds of architecture you’d expect to find in the French Quarter. You’d expect Creole cottages. You might expect colonial-era French architecture. You might even come across a Greek ...
The Thayer Memorial Library invites the community to step back in time with “A Victorian Christmas”, a live musical ...
After spending a considerable amount of time enjoying roughly five play-throughs in Half-Life 2, I've noticed the European influences on the setting. Specifically distinct similarities with Victorian ...
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