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tabithadarlingsbedroomfloor:

On selling Austenabilia in the year of the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice - Wet Shirt Darcy Never Gets Old!

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Hedy Lamarr   Christmas - 1940s

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uneamiedelabc:

Period characters: Elizabeth Bennet portrayed by Jennifer Ehle

Wet Shirt Mr Darcy, one of our more popular literary characters at the Deepings Dolls.

oldrags:

Witch fancy dress, 1887 England, Fancy Dresses Described by Ardern Holt

(See Hubbard, Mother; Macbeth, and Coloured Illustration, Plate XV.) Short quilted skirt of red satin, with cats and lizards in black velvet; gold satin panier tunic; black velvet bodice laced over an old-gold crêpe bodice; small cat on right shoulder, a broom in the hand, with owl; tall pointed velvet cap; shoes with buckles.

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Elizabeth I, painted as a princess about age 14 by lisby1 on Flickr.

Princess Elizabeth (later Queen) when she was about 14

What no one knows is that this famous painting was painted by a woman. Something quite radical for the time. Women painters were rare because to become a painter one had to go to a sort of boarding school with other boys to apprentice. The few renaissance female painters were taught by their fathers.

This very well known painting of Queen Elizabeth I as a princess was painted by Levina Teerlinc. 

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