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Feminist ideas spread among the educated middle classes, discriminatory laws were repealed, and the women's suffrage movement gained momentum in the last years of the Victorian era. [1] In the Victorian era, women were seen, by the middle classes at least, as belonging to the domestic sphere, and this stereotype formed firm expectations for ...
Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (née Elphinstone Fleeming; 1 June 1822 – 19 January 1865), [1] commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, [2] [n 1] was a British amateur portrait photographer [3] of the Victorian era. She produced over 800 photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters.
For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards. For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was ...
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria.. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
Alice Austen House or Clear Comfort in 2002. Elizabeth Alice Austen (March 17, 1866 – June 9, 1952) was an American photographer working in Staten Island.She is best known for her street photography and her intimate depictions of women's lives and relationships in the Victorian era.
Hidden mother photography is a genre of photography common in the Victorian era in which young children were photographed with their mother present but hidden in the photograph. It arose from the need to keep children still while the photograph was taken due to the long exposure times of early cameras .
The silhouette changed once again as the Victorian era drew to a close. The shape was essentially an inverted triangle, with a wide-brimmed hat on top, a full upper body with puffed sleeves, no bustle, and a skirt that narrowed at the ankles [11] (the hobble skirt was a fad shortly after the end of the Victorian era). The enormous wide-brimmed ...
Image credits: tvalwx #2. My hubby snapped this pic as I fell asleep sitting up, breastfeeding our 2 week old twins. Exhausted doesn’t fully describe this experience as I was healing from 2 ...