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That’s not an actress. It’s an edit of a real Nigella clip.

No one goes to school in Bath. Bath is where you go to escort your maiden aunt who’s suffering from ill humors and must take in the air, but needs a companion other than her over indulged spaniel Mr. Powderhauser and her dour ladies maid Frida. If she asks you to go, you must, because you have no fortune of your own,… Read more

Okay, I recognize that lady with the rolled up fan in the first (composite!) picture from my Dover clip art series, and according to them, that is the “magnificent Lise,” who has gotten sick of her unfaithful lover’s cheating, and is going out on the pull to find a new one to-DAY. Read more

Can we address this tiny, tiny baby head on this rotund woman’s body. #goARTyourself

what kind of torture device/crazy home decor is this??

I would have this cloak. I will use it to hide my secrets my secret lover, or my secret and scandalous pregnancies.

“Girl, I don’t need an off-the-shoulder dress to show off my traps. Do you even lift?”

Which foot is which?

I have Regency and Victorian fashion plates hanging in my bedroom and they’re some of my favorites things. The care put in the drawing, the colors. I’ve always found them fascinating. Sometimes I can’t imagine how hard picking out dresses and styles were back then but really, how is it any different than looking at a… Read more

So... your husband’s still chasing that whale? Well, I’ve got a fresh-corked tincture of opium. Why don’t we go drug this child to stillness, get you out of that uncomfortable horsehair crinoline, and go explore our sexuality together?

Photoshop of horrors, 1832 edition.

Those are the eyes that say “Man, I’ve seen some shit.”

Cuter than the real princess

I am so here for the Neuschwanstein reference <3 <3 <3 Read more

Maybe it will be like the Winchester Mystery House, the huge haunted home that the owner had constantly under construction for decades until she died because she ghosts told her to never stop building.

They have a closet that is 6,000 square feet.

My house, a Victorian built in 1887, has 2,084 square feet. And we have two bedrooms that are basically not used. Read more

Jackie Siegel is both my spirit animal and my nemesis. Read more

Good old Mason County has the Mothman, the Silver Bridge disaster, Chief Cornstalk, TNT, and Lakin. In college, we would go over to the Lakin remains around midnight on weekends, to explore and look for ghosts. You can still drive by and see where it was located, as it is across from the Lakin Women’s Prison, about… Read more

“has recognized ability in the colored medical profession to manage this enterprise…[Lakin] gives an opportunity for young medical men of the race to fix themselves in this heretofore rather exclusive line of practice.” Read more

Wonderfully written article, Alison. I love pieces like this that shine a light on a matter that most of us have never heard of.
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