Here’s a fragment from Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy, in which you can see a little bit of the customs regarding compliments in the later half of the nineteenth century: “...

A few posts ago I wrote about Little Lord Fauntleroy and the fashion for Fauntleroy suits that existed. Immediately after I found a reference to it in another book, The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scot...

On October 13, an official sequel to Dracula will come out. Amazon says: “Dracula The Un-Dead is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker’s own handwritten notes for characters and pl...

Recently, Jean-François de Buren (who writes at The Grand Tour and The De Büren Family) was kind enough to scan some images from a magazine for me, to share with you! The magazine is from 1866, ...

By accident I caught the second episode of BBC’s recent adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma this weekend. It’s beautiful! I didn’t catch the story at all but sat for an hour, fascin...

A bit of a Halloween spirit with this cute Victorian witch! (Her dress seems inspired on 18th century Rococo dresses and paniers, how intriguing! If anyone wants to analyse that, please feel free!)

I went to a Anton Mauve exhibition in the Springer museum. Mauve was a nineteenth-century painter, painting Dutch weather and rural scenes. I was especially charmed by his depictions of farmer’s...