#edwardian life

[ghouljams]

no thoughts just simon roughly undoing your corset at the end of the night. idk how he'd be there without it being seen as improper or whatever or maybe hes your husband but i feel like it'd send me into subspace so quick.. kinda similar to shibari? idk.

The times when he's rough with your stays are few and far between, mostly he unlaces the (newly) double stranded thing with blunt nails that slip against the laces. His own knots so carefully tied keeping you held tight in what may as well be his embrace. His signature is already neatly embroidered on your modesty panel, his words neatly penned in bleeding ink professing all the places his lips would touch. Scandalous delivered before he ever made it to your marriage bed, you might add.

Oh no, Simon is very... deliberate with your stays. Possessive, even. His knot is one you can't undo, one that even he sometimes resorts to pulling between his teeth. It's a security you can't go against, a lock whose only key is held by Simon. He won't even let your maid touch your laces. You sit for him and arch into his touch as he threads one line, then another, and another. His fingers skim your chemise, his breath just barely even. You hang your head to feel his teeth graze the top knob of your spine as he pulls you tight, and takes the first swell of your breath between his fingers.

It's a beautiful thing. A second spine borrowed from your husband's hand. How each crossed thread holds its own knot at the center, how each lace ladders itself to climb up the looping of Simon's signature, his name just barely visible under the knots and laces. No, he doesn't tear at your stays. Swear at them maybe. Tell you he won't tie them so tight next time, a lie. But never tear.

Cut? Well, now that's another thing entirely. And you'd be lying if you said the press of his blade along your spine, slowly carving out your trapped breath, didn't make you squeeze your legs around the hand he'd already buried between them.

[theygotlost]

inspired (rather loosely) by illustrators aubrey beardsley and john austen

[badassindistress]

I am so very pleased with how this week's sewing on a whim projects turned out

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Charles Courtney Curran, Among the Laurel Blossoms (1914)

via meisterdrucke.us

[lomotunes2008]

Ok folks! Here's a list of every Kerr Stuart narrow gauge engine I could find!

It was a struggle (most of these had basically zero info on them other than very, very basic stuff) but I tried my best! I've also included photos of each just for fun ^_^

Tattoo:

1284 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

1288 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

2395 - Current location: Apedale Valley Railway

4047 - Current location: Talyllyn Railway

Winston 17 - Current location: Corris Railway

Unknown - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

Skylark:

742 - Current location: Red Cliffs Railway

813/814/1360* - Current location: Mauritius

1281 - Current location: Pernambuco, Brazil

4389 - Current location: Alagoas, Brazil

Sirdar:

652 - Current location: Walvis Bay Station, Namibia

685 - Current location: Beaconsfield Heritage Centre

1158 - Current location: Amerton Railway

Wren:

1015 - Current location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

1194 - Current location: Santa Catarina, Brazil

2387 - Current location: Pattaya, Thailand

2388 - Current location: Falkland Islands

2392 - Current location: Falkland Islands

3114 - Current location: Vale of Rheidol Railway

3128 - Current location: Statfold Barn

4031 - Current location: Sandstone Steam Railway

4250 - Current location: Amerton Railway

4256 - Current location: Leighton Buzzard Railway

4260 - Current location: Leighton Buzzard Railway

Hunslet 3905 - Current location: Unknown

Hunslet 3906 - Current location: Kew Bridge

Brazil:

886 - Current location: Sittingbourne Railway

926 - Current location: Sittingbourne Railway

1049 - Current location: Great Whipsnade Railway

1179 - Current location: Santa Catarina, Brazil

1314 - Current location: Carribbean Islands

3024 - Current location: Cavan & Leitrim Railway

3025 - Current location: Private

4219 - Current location: Sittingbourne Railway

Hunslet 1842 - Current location: Statfold Barn

Hunslet 3756 - Current location: Statfold Barn

Hunslet 3902 - Current location: Stratford Barn

Darwin:

4063 - Current location: Sandstone Steam Railway

Joffre:

2405 - Current location: West Lancashire Railway

2442 - Current location: Richmond Light Railway

2451 - Current location: L&B Railway

3010 - Current location: Statfold Barn Railway

3014 - Current location: Apedale Railway

Unknown - Current location: A. Schweitzer Hospital

Haig:

3117 - Current location: Teifi Valley Railway

4183 - Current location: Western Springs Railway

4185 - Current location: Western Springs Railway

Huxley:

2383 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

4141 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

4393 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

Matary:

4034 - Current location: Great Whipsnade Railway

4193 - Current location: Alagoas, Brazil

4404 - Current location: Welshpool Railway

Unknown class:

98 - Current location: Pernambuco, Brazil

668 - Current location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

847 - Current location: Chennai, India

848 - Current location: Puri, India

928 - Current location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

1244 - Current location: Alagoas, Brazil

2417 - Current location: Pernambuco, Brazil

4077 - Current location: Antofagasta, Chile

4315 - Current location: Vizinagaram, India

4316 - Current location: Visakhapatnam, India

4408 - Current location: Visakhapatnam, India

Unknown - Current location: Oruro, Bolivia

*Unsure of works number. Numbers listed are speculative and may not be accurate.

Hope someone finds this useful :)

[mayapapaya33]

Oh no! Edwin had to find out about World War II at some point. Poor boy. He died in the middle of World War I! (not that it was called that at the time). He spent 70 years in Hell not knowing if or how The Great War ended, then had to find out it DID end but that Humanity didn't learn it's lesson and there was ANOTHER one. One that he would have lived through and possibly would have had to serve in had he survived into adulthood. That HAD to be a dreadful conversation.

[mote-historie]

Xavier Gosé, Le Monde, High Life, Cover Illustration for Les Annales, Noel 1913.

Morera. Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani, Carrer Major, 31, 25007 Lleida, Spain

[chaoticdesertdweller]

"Lizzie Nichols and Perkins"

📸 Lora Webb Nichols

Encampment, Wyoming, 1913

[alivegirldetectiveagency]

edwin being captivated by the neon lights in the butcher shop is so funny to me because neon lights had JUST been invented/started being used commercially in his life time.

[autumncottageattic]

 The Country Diary of Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden❤️

[fairykukla]

Edwardian Fashion Show

Here are the three outfits, modeled by Goodreau BJDs.

The Evening Gown. It came with earrings, a necklace, a handbag, spats, and a fascinator. There was also a piece of double stick foam to attach the fascinator, but I used a straight pin.

Roxy looks fantastic in this. It fits her body perfectly. The details are splendid! The handbag has a working clasp, and the fascinator has beading on it!

The Day Dress. It came with a necklace and earrings, a handbag, spats and a picture hat. Functional handbag clasp, lovely details on the hat, though I will want to gently steam it to fluff up the tulle.

The Tea Dress.

No handbag or hat, but it's a two-piece gown and robe set. Cameo earrings and white spast complete the ensemble.

In honor of my friend A who would be chuffed to wear this dress, I put it on Towana.

(please excuse the shitty lighting in my dining room.)

I still want to know what company made this set. (Hey@dollblr can you help a fellow collector out?) Each dress was on a hanger, in a separate plastic bag, with the identification of each style printed in a chancery font on a sticker. The accessories were in their own bag, tucked in with each dress. It sure looks like a porcelain doll wardrobe, but they fit my slim MSDs exactly. I haven't pierced my dolls ears, but these sets certainly tempt me.

I still can't believe I found these in pristine condition at a thrift store for under $4.

[badassindistress]

I had to listen to someone who called himself a "Customer Succes Manager" for more than an hour today, so I made myself another edwardian belt from the last scraps of my dragonfly waistcoat

[vincentpriceofficial]

I hate ironic winking-at-the-camera historical fiction so muchhhhh my god. Like lol wouldn’t it be funny and quaint if these were your problems. Don’t worry we know this is escapism we won’t ask you to take anything too seriously. SAY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged -- well, one can't do all those things at once, worse luck, because they're all so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in -- to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that."

~ E. M. Forster, Howard's End (1910)

[historyloverbelle]

@masha-nikita

I want to say a thank you to masha-nikita for inspiring me into actually posting some of my artwork.

This is my first post so apologies for any mess in layout. I just wanted to share some of my artwork since I am fairly proud of it and I can see improvements. This is not in Chronological order, some of this was 4 or 5 years ago and others last month. I did and do still have a tendacy to doodle, it did come in handy for archaeology this year though in my lectures so I can't really complain that much.

Probably not my best for some of them, particularly Rommel, he is not an easy person to draw so there I do need to improve.