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Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...
By 1840, a contemporary Quarterly Review could find in Almack's "a clear proof that the palmy days of exclusiveness are gone by in England; and though it is obviously impossible to prevent any given number of persons from congregating and re-establishing an oligarchy, we are quite sure that the attempt would be ineffectual, and that the sense ...
Daniel Pabst (June 11, 1826 – July 15, 1910) was a German-born American cabinetmaker of the Victorian Era.He is credited with some of the most extraordinary custom interiors and hand-crafted furniture in the United States.
Often considered to be one of the finest furniture pieces of the 19th century and an icon of Victorian furniture. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers rather used and modified many styles taken from various time periods in history like Gothic , Tudor , Elizabethan , English Rococo , Neoclassical and ...
Eastlake's book led to a demand in Eastlake furniture; however, Eastlake himself denied that there was an Eastlake style. This led to furniture manufacturers—who initially thought that Eastlake's ideas would be more harmful than good—to invent their own Eastlake furniture, with it reaching a point that it was "seen everywhere". [3]
It was established in 1972 as the Newsletter of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, before becoming a peer-reviewed journal in 1989. [1] It publishes research articles, as well as book reviews. The editors-in-chief are Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge (University of Victoria).
FHIO members are retail, furniture and home improvement outlets in the United Kingdom. All full members pledge to abide by a code of practice which bestows additional rights and assurances on consumers who shop with them. Most complaints that FHIO investigates are about upholstered furniture, beds and fitted kitchens.
William Sharp (1855–1905) was a Scottish writer who defended the creation of beauty and wanted to challenge the Victorian era's norms for poetic form and sexuality. [1] He was called a pagan in The Scotsman ' s review of his poetry collection Sospiri di Roma (1891), which was written in Rome and used naked ancient statues as a starting point for praising human sensuality.