🌔 I'm Olivia, but call me Liv! I'm a 28 year old Welsh girl, living in England and working in an historical property. I'm a lover of 17th and 18th century British history, occasionally dabbling in other eras too. On my blog, you will find all sorts of things but mainly my adoration of all things old, all things literary, all things Jane Austen, and a plethora of Hogarthian pleasures. I'm also a cis bi woman & feminist who unconditionally supports trans and sex worker rights 🌖
→no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse
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Adut Akech Bior by Shxpir
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Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors
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never mind Byronic heroes where are my Keatsian heroes?!!! enough of men standing around posing on cliffs, more men wandering through the woods hoping to get topped by an ethereal woman who can kill you if she feels like it!!!
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Isabelle Adjani in La Reine Margot (1994) dir. Patrice Chéreau
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1632-1635 Sir Antony van Dyck - Portrait of Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England
(National Portrait Gallery, London)
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forced to say “it’s ok” instead of throwing a chair at them
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A Room with a View (1985)
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Effie Gray
John Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel The King of the Golden River for Gray in 1841, when she was 12 and he was 21. Gray’s family knew Ruskin’s father and encouraged a match between the two when she had matured. She ended up marrying Ruskin, after an initially unsteady courtship, when she was 20 years old on 10 April 1848.READ MORE ABOUT THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD AND THEIR MUSES
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Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508 – 1580) was chief mistress of Francis I of France. She became Francis’ mistress following his return from captivity in 1526. Anne enriched her family and friends through her courtly influence and after Francis’ death was banished from court and temporarily imprisoned in her husband’s castle. She would spend her later years ensuring the fortune of her family. Anne died in 1580.
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Thomas Gainsborough, The Hon. Frances Duncombe, 2.3 metres x 1.6 metres (92" x 61"), oil on canvas, 1777
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Lady Susan from Love and Friendship
(requested by anonymous)
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The Ladies Waldegrave (details) by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
oil on canvas, 1780-1781
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The Soldier and The Girl
Gerard van Honthorst, c. 1621
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obsessed with stories where the message is that you can’t bring someone back from the dead even if you can bring someone back from the dead
Don’t you dare leave this in the tags!
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