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Don't forget the #clocksgoback tonight!! Here are some splendid clocks on our site:. How many can you identiiy?
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice

ALT Outside the Royal Courts of Justice

No prizes for this one!

ALT No prizes for this one!

Clock at Cardiff Castle

ALT Clock at Cardiff Castle

The Ivanhoe Clock in Thornton's Arcade. Leeds

ALT The Ivanhoe Clock in Thornton's Arcade. Leeds

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Paintings of muse and model Fanny Eaton (nee Entwhistle, 1835–1924), to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth in the UK. Born in Jamaica, Fanny came to London when she was young, the daughter of Matilda Foster, a woman of African heritage who had been enslaved in the British Colony. …
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The cover of Lydia Murdoch's book shows a tragic scene... Here's a must-read for anyone interested in the wider repercussions of this experience of devastating loss—all-too-common in the Victorian era (review by Alyssa Q. Johnson) victorianweb.org/history/rev…
The family (father, grandmother, sibling) mourns by the bedside of the dead child, but the mother turns away, hands clasped, eyes turned upwards....

ALT The family (father, grandmother, sibling) mourns by the bedside of the dead child, but the mother turns away, hands clasped, eyes turned upwards....

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Lucy Paquette@HammockAuthorOct 19
Mrs. Louis E. Raphael (Henriette Goldschmidt, 1877-1926) c. 1906 by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
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#WOMENSART
@womensart1Oct 17
Margaret Macdonald ( 1864 – 1933) artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s. ##WomensArt #GlasgowGirls
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Lucy Paquette@HammockAuthorOct 16
Mrs. Luke Ionides (Elfrida Elizabeth Bird, 1848-1929) 1882 by William Blake Richmond (British, 1842-1921) @V_and_A
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Here's another of the truly individual architects of the Victorian age: David Valinsky's "The Architecture and Writings of E.S. Prior: Challenging the Arts and Crafts" does full justice to Prior's unique buildings and inspiring vision. victorianweb.org/art/archite…
Book cover showing detail of tall chimney-stack and gable with a patterned and highly textured surface

ALT Book cover showing detail of tall chimney-stack and gable with a patterned and highly textured surface

View of of former Medical School and Museum, Cambridge

ALT View of of former Medical School and Museum, Cambridge

Shimmering rose window with Prior's Glass (made by his own process)

ALT Shimmering rose window with Prior's Glass (made by his own process)

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A "New Woman" novel of the 1890s that shows how a heroine's acceptance of "traditional womanhood" brings unexpected fulfilment? Sounds contradictory, to say the least! Time to reread Kathleen Mannington Caffyn (Iota)'s "A Yellow Aster"! victorianweb.org/authors/caf…
Creamy-yellow book cover showing a single yellow aster--appropriately enough, not the usual colour for this species!

ALT Creamy-yellow book cover showing a single yellow aster--appropriately enough, not the usual colour for this species!

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Sarah Wise@MissSarahWiseOct 8
On Weds 4 November, 7pm, I'm giving a talk online @citylit about no 18 Denmark St. Here at the 'Eclectic Hall' , a range of 19th-century radicals attracted sell-out crowds. We'll explore the shifting political currents of Soho and St Giles at mid-century tinyurl.com/239zd65p
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An unexpected find: a Stephen Adam window in a school in Buenos Aires, in the stairwell. It's a stunning one too, showing the apple harvest. Thanks, Alejandro Vetere, for letting us know, & for some great photos of it! victorianweb.org/art/stained…
Women and children in the orchard, picking apples at harvest-time.

ALT Women and children in the orchard, picking apples at harvest-time.

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So pleased to share Dr Jasmine Allen's "A.W.N. Pugin, Stained Glass, and the 1851 Medieval Court" with an earlier edition of the Pugin Society's journal, "True Principles": it wasn't plain sailing for Pugin, but turned into a real triumph! victorianweb.org/art/stained…
Contemporary engraving of the "medieval court" in the 1851 exhibition, with people looking around the various exhibits.

ALT Contemporary engraving of the "medieval court" in the 1851 exhibition, with people looking around the various exhibits.

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We had some great contributions this month, e.g. a Burne-Jones drawing for this #stainedglass window—do look at September's What's New before October's lands! We cover everything Victorian, plus book reviews, conference & exhibition notices etc. See victorianweb.org/misc/whatsn…
Detail of some of the Athenians listening to St Paul as he preaches at Mars Hill near the Acropolis, for a three light window designed late in his career by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. c.1891. This is one of a series of ten windows in the Grade II* listed church of St Paul's, Morton, Lincolnshire, as seen in the photo next to it.

ALT Detail of some of the Athenians listening to St Paul as he preaches at Mars Hill near the Acropolis, for a three light window designed late in his career by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. c.1891. This is one of a series of ten windows in the Grade II* listed church of St Paul's, Morton, Lincolnshire, as seen in the photo next to it.

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It's hard to spot owls even when you hear them hooting, which may be why Jemima Blackburn explains: “Tawny Owl in this plate was a tame bird” in her book "Birds Drawn from Nature" (1862). Wild or tame, it's magnificent, anyway! victorianweb.org/art/illustr… #birds #painting
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Starting your Christmas shopping? Wish we were back in the days of Christmas gift books, works of art in themselves, like Charles Robinson's design for H.D. Lowry's "Make Believe" of 1896 victorianweb.org/art/design/…
Angelic figure seemingly seated amid scrolling vines, gilt on a dark cover.

ALT Angelic figure seemingly seated amid scrolling vines, gilt on a dark cover.

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We're excited to share the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference "Victorian Borders" cfp. Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.
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Are you ready for the #HarvestMoon? This is Helen Allingham's lovely shimmering watercolour of 1879, "The Harvest Moon, 'globed in yellow splendour.'" Even the weary harvester, returning from the fields scythe in hand, isn't immune to its beauty. victorianweb.org/painting/al…
The tall figure of the harvester is outlined against the dark landscape behind and the evening sky. He is seen turning to see the rising moon, pausing in mid-step as he looks over his shoulder, and takes in its radiance... Its light illuminates the meadow grass and a few wildflowers beside his path.

ALT The tall figure of the harvester is outlined against the dark landscape behind and the evening sky. He is seen turning to see the rising moon, pausing in mid-step as he looks over his shoulder, and takes in its radiance... Its light illuminates the meadow grass and a few wildflowers beside his path.

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Next meeting of the Central DF - Tuesday 22 September at 18.30 @CharterhouseEC1 - John Edmondson on 'Out of Time: Malfunctioning and Neglected Clocks and Watches in Dickens's Fiction'.
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Lynne@ghirlandiaSep 23
The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins d. 23 Sept, 1889 in London #otd John Atkinson Grimshaw
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#autumnequinox: time for the leaves to fall, if they haven't already! This is John #Ruskin's marvellously evocative "Study of a Spray of Dead Oak Leaves," 1879, from Museums Sheffield. You can feel how crisp the leaves are! victorianweb.org/painting/ru…
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Christopher Howse@BeardyHowseSep 22
Thomas Crampton, the man who laid the first undersea telegraph cable, across the Channel in 1851, also built this tower at Broadstairs, in 1859. It held 83,000 gallons for domestic supply. But it was in regular use only till 1901.
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