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Showing posts with label Follow Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Follow Friday. Show all posts
Tacky Royal Wedding Souvenirs
Ah, Wills and Kate are getting married. The tacky wedding souvenir trade is relishing the opportunity to go wild for the next year or so. Click on this Daily Mail article.
Gawker offers a funny look at the Royal Wedding Souvenir industry
Wills and Kate: Here Comes the Kitsch
Follow Friday: Regency Fashion Plates
A Thousand Pixels offers beautiful Regency fashion plates, some of which are quite rare. Click here to enter the blog.
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| September 1812 Full Dress, Ladys Monthly Magazine. Image @A Thousand Pixels |
Follow Friday: Debbie Thinks Deep
In Debbie Thinks Deep you will find images of a gorgeous scrapbook in homage to Debbie's visit to Jane Austen's house in Chawton. Having attempted only one scrapbook in my life, I know how much time and effort she put into this endeavor. Click on over and take a peek! Click here for more of her images. Cool.
Follow Friday: Dancing With Mr Darcy and the Jane Austen Festival in Bath
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| Dancing in the ballroom at Chawton House |
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| Refreshments during the ball |
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| Jane Austen Festival, Bath |
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| Bath Crescent |
Included are a map, as if you are going on a walking tour, and descriptions of the places you are seeing. Awesome. And enjoy!
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The website, English and French Antique Textiles, offers information on finding rare cloth and lace, or antique clothes, such as an 1815 christening gown (below). Find Spitalfields silk (above) , an 18th c. French quilt, hand embroidered dress silk, and a woven toile d'abbeville from the 17th century.
Follow: Friday Jane Austen and Her Regency World
Several months ago I set up a group on Facebook called Jane Austen and Her Regency World. I place items of interest about Jane Austen, many of them not featured here, on that page. For example, I linked to Jane Austen's Fight Club when it had only 600 visitors. For breaking news about Jane, join Jane Austen and Her Regency World, and find out everything you wanted to know about her but just don't have time to Google or Bing.
Follow Friday: Raise funds by clicking for Chawton House
Intrigued?
You can now raise funds when you search the web!
Use easysearch every time you search the Web and we'll give 50% of the fees paid by our advertising sponsors to Chawton House Library - less info...
Use easysearch instead of Google or any other search engine and you can make a real difference to Chawton House Library. By making just 10 searches a day with easysearch, you can raise around £20 a year.
As well as raising funds, easysearch also gives you the best search results available on Web. Today, the Internet is so big that different search engines will deliver different results for the same search. So, by combining the strengths of several search engines together - Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, MIVA, and many more - you get the very best results in terms of accuracy and relevance, which means you'll find what you're looking for quickly and easily every time - all in one 'easy' search! Click here to visit the site.
You can now raise funds when you search the web!
Use easysearch every time you search the Web and we'll give 50% of the fees paid by our advertising sponsors to Chawton House Library - less info...
Use easysearch instead of Google or any other search engine and you can make a real difference to Chawton House Library. By making just 10 searches a day with easysearch, you can raise around £20 a year.
As well as raising funds, easysearch also gives you the best search results available on Web. Today, the Internet is so big that different search engines will deliver different results for the same search. So, by combining the strengths of several search engines together - Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, MIVA, and many more - you get the very best results in terms of accuracy and relevance, which means you'll find what you're looking for quickly and easily every time - all in one 'easy' search! Click here to visit the site.
Thank you Christine Stewart for alerting me to this site: Embarking on a Course of Study
Follow Friday: Versailles and More
Catherine Delors, author of For the King and Mistress of the Revolution, maintains a lush and informative blog about the Georgian era in England and the Revolutionary era in France. Click on this link to visit Versailles and More and allow yourself to be informed and entertained in a most beautiful and sophisticated manner.
Follow Friday: J Bone
Does this illustration of Jane Austen look familiar? Well, it should. Artist J. Bone (as my friend Laurel Ann of Austenprose pointed out) created the image. I contacted the artist, who said that the illustration was originally published for a blog devoted to images of famous writers: Hey Oscar Wilde
I think Jane would have loved this rendition. If you will recall, the image was used for the poster for Pride and Sensibility several weeks back. (See below)
See more of J. Bone's work on this blog, Blah, Blah, Blog!
Follow Friday: Autumn Cottage Diarist
Roz Cawley's Autumn Cottage Diarist is like taking a step back in time towards a kindler, gentler England. The photographs are excellent. Her cottage life is like the embodiment of one of my dreams. When I visit this blog I am transported to another world: Lovely and most gracious - a trip to the time of Jane Austen with modern overtones. Enjoy your visit.
Friday Follow: Solitary Elegance
Solitary Elegance is a website that offers beautiful Regency inspired wallpaper, a Northanger Abbey Adaptations page designed for those who wish to study the novel in more depth, and C.E. Brock's illustrations of Jane Austen's novels. Heather only asks that you use the illustrations for non-commercial purposes and attribute their source. Enjoy your visit!Image from Solitary Elegance, Northanger Abbey
Follow Friday: Jane Austen's Manuscripts Online
Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts are now available in a digitized version online. These facsimiles offer Jane Austen's novels in a virtual collection. Many of the Austen manuscripts are frail; open and sustained access has long been impossible for conservation and location reasons. The site's aims and objectives are to:- To create a digital resource reuniting all the known holograph surviving manuscripts of Austen’s fiction in an unprecedented virtual collection.
- To provide for the first time full descriptions of, transcriptions of, analysis of, and commentary on the manuscripts in the archive, including details of erasures, handwriting, paper quality, watermarks, ink, binding structures, and any ancillary materials held with the holographs as aspects of their physical integrity or provenance.
- To develop complex interlinking of the virtual collection to allow systematic comparison of the manuscripts under a number of headings representing both their intellectual and physical states.
For the majority of us, this is as close to the original (delicate) manuscripts as we will ever get.
Image: watercolor of Elizabeth by Cassandra Austen
Follow Friday: Regency Redingote
Recently Katherine, the author of The Regency Redingote, had to move her blog over to Wordpress. I visit the site often to find information and historical snippets about the Regency that are both enjoyable and informative to read.
Take March 2010, for example. Katherine wrote about Velocipedes, the Regency variation of the bicycle, the English print room phenomenon, and the anticipated Regency bicentennial, which will begin next year. Another favorite post discusses Puzzle Jugs! When you hop on over to the Regency Redingote, you will see that bookmarking this site will be well worth your while!
Image at right: Puzzle jug, V&A museum
Follow Friday: Antique and Vintage Dress Gallery
Want to purchase a garment towards your very own Regency costume? Check out the Antique and Vintage Dress Gallery, 1750-1840's page!This is a partial description of the listing of this Pelisse with Leg O'Mutton Sleeves, 1830:
Gorgeous burgundy wine silk color. Beautifully made, all hand stitched Original hooks/eyes at back. Excellent condition with only one 1" wear at the very bottom edge at back (see photo), and although it's all original, one back panel is ever so slightly darker than the other and with an extra horizontal seam (see photo - hardly worth a mention). Really this piece is in wonderful condition! Measures: 30" bust, 27" underbust (fits smaller than measures, and tiny shoulders). Really best for display, though strong enough to be worn!
Cost? $685. Click on the site to see more lovely offerings.
Follow Friday: Sue Wilkes
Sue Wilkes, author of Regency Chesire, offers soundbites from history in her blog, Sue Wilkes. She lives in England; thus visitors to her blog are treated to "inside" information about the Regency era. One of my favorite recent posts is entitled, Real Life in Regency England, which discusses the great contrasts in lifestyle between the rich and working classes.
Read my review of her novel in this link: Books to Keep You Company During the Holiday Season
Follow Friday: The Jane Austen Societies
The Jane Austen Society of North America cannot be overlooked in our Friday Follows. Featuring the incomparable publications of Persuasions Online, the electronic journal of JASNA. Regional JASNA Societies also boast their own websites -
Follow Friday: The Republic of Pemberley
Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but a Follow Friday without mentioning this juggernaut Jane Austen site would be foolish in the extreme. I am sure that every Janeite has stumbled across this immense website while cruising along the ether looking for Jane Austen tidbits. Look no more. Click here and prepare yourself for a prolonged visit. Follow Friday: Jane Austen and Friends
Jane Austen and Friends (Movie Gowns) is a website, not a blog, and it is chock full of images of gowns in Jane Austen movie adaptations. The site is still under construction, (Emma 2009 is missing, as are Sense and Sensibility 2007 and all the Mansfield Parks, and the pre-1990's movies) but as it exists, Jane Austen and Friends supplies a ton of visual information. Check it out and stay for a while. It's a great reference.
A few of the costumes for Isabella Thorpe, Carey Mulligan, Northanger Abbey 2007
A few of the costumes for Isabella Thorpe, Carey Mulligan, Northanger Abbey 2007
Follow Friday: Edwardian Promenade
The Edwardian Era (1901-1914) was almost as short as the Regency Era (1811-1820). One of my favorite blogs, Edwardian Promenade, covers this fascinating time with excellent posts and sound research and insights. I love reading about events that occurred almost a century after Jane Austen's era and envy the photographs. So many scientific advances were made, yet so many customs remained the same. If you haven't visited this fascinating blog for a while, Evangelineh has changed its design, but not its content.
Follow her on Twitter as well.
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