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My blogs

• ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly

Blogs I follow

• A Bloomsbury Life
• A Connoisseur's Quest
• Adrian Yekkes
• Alberti’s Window | An Art History Blog
• An Edwardian State of Mind
• ARCHITECTURE OF EUROPE
• ART & ARTISTS
• ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly
• Art Blog By Bob
• Art Contrarian
• Art Deco Buildings
• Art Inconnu - Little-known and under-appreciated art.
• ArtEco
• At My Soiree
• Aurel's laurels
• Bosco Parrasio
• British Art
• Cardinal Wolsey's Today in History
• Caroline's Miscellany
• Confessions of a Ci-Devant
• Culture and Anarchy
• Drowning in Vitriol
• Edwardian Emporium
• EdwardianPromenade
• Emanata (Dr Ben Harvey)
• EMPIRE DESIGN™
• English Buildings
• Exploring London
• From The House of Edward
• Fugitive Ink
• HATTATT
• History and traditions of England
• Homer's Odd Isn't He
• I Need Art and Coffee
• Intelliblog
• Invisible Paris
• Landed families of Britain and Ireland
• Landscape Painting References
• London Historians' Blog » The stroll
• MAP
• Melbourne Art & Culture Critic
• Melbourne Curious
• Melbourne Heritage Watch
• Mercurius Politicus
• New England's History
• Nikolaus Pevsner - Bringer of Riches
• NixPages
• NOTED
• Notes on Early Modern Art
• Objects Not Paintings
• Old Paint
• ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS
• Painting History
• People, Plants & Gardens in Colonial British America
• Points of View
• Reflections on A Journey to St Helena
• RoadToParnassus
• Royal Rendezvous
• Samuel Gruber's Jewish Art & Monuments
• Sandra Gulland
• Scratching Sydney's Surface
• some LANDSCAPES
• Southern Folk Artist & Antiques Dealer/Collector
• Sydney - City and Suburbs
• Sydney Daily Photo
• Tasmanian 20th Century Modernism Project
• the art critic
• THE BLUE LANTERN
• The Clever Pup
• The Designer's Muse
• The Devoted Classicist
• The Earthly Paradise
• The Fashion Historian
• The Fylde and Wyre Antiquarian
• The History Blog
• The House of Beauty and Culture
• The Idle Historian
• The Lothians
• the style saloniste
• the textile blog
• the Victorian era
• The Victorian Peeper
• The Victorianist
• ThinkShop
• Three Pipe Problem
• To Discover Ice
• TRENTHAM TALES
• Trying To Be Ann O'Dyne
• Two Nerdy History Girls
• Unmitigated England
• Victorian History
• Victorian Musings
• Weimar
• Welcome to Travel France Online
• When Art History Goes Bad
• William Morris Fan Club
• Willowbrook Park
• Zigzag

About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Academic, retired
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Interests	English Civil War, Huguenots, Arts and Crafts, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, London, York, Canterbury, art history, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Vienna Secession, Pre-Raphaelites, Orientalist Art, Impressionist art, church architecture, synagogue architecture, mosque architecture, Suffragettes, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Bezalel, Australian colonial architecture, Australian art, Australian gold rush, Dutch art, English art, Paris, Belle Epoque, International Exhibitions, women's cultural salons, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Hapsburgs, Silk Road, Tel Aviv.
Favorite Books	Anthony Trollope, David Lodge, Anita Brookner, Bruce Chatwin, AS Byatt, Sinclair Lewis, John Irving, Meir Shalev, Bernice Rubens, Julian Barnes, Joanna Trollope.

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