Sphinxvictorian
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Jan Marsh
- Nothing Elegant
- ottoline divine
- paris breakfasts
- Parker's Prose
- Starlet Showcase
- The Beautiful Necessity
- The Kissed Mouth
- The Primeverse Blog
- the textile blog
- Venice Daily Photo
- william morris unbound
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Costume historian and designer |
| Location | Vermont, United States |
| Introduction | I have been studying this period for many years, and I did my bachelors degree in Victorian history and costume design, designing three dresses from each main period of artistic dress: Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic and the Bloomsbury period. I am fascinated by the amazing outpouring of beauty that happened over 80 years. My pantheon of immortals is large, including many of those mentioned in my interests. I am a lady scholar of independent means who travels to Britain as often as I can convince my Significant Other to go with me. I have an ancient cat named Rosie and I live in a beautiful tiny house filled with arts and crafts things, and I try very hard to have things in my house that I "either know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." |
| Interests | pre-raphaelites, dante gabriel rossetti, millais, william morris, walter crane, walter pater, john ruskin, oscar wilde, constance wilde, arts and crafts, bloomsbury group, dora carrington, augustus john, ida nettleship, dorelia john, gwen john, lady ottoline morrell, artistic dress, aesthetic dress, dress reform, corsets, anti-fashion, gilbert and sullivan's patience, edward burne-jones, georgiana burne-jones, elizabeth siddal, jane morris, alice comyns-carr, grosvenor gallery, liberty's of london, furniture, architecture, design |
| Favorite Movies | Persuasion, A Room With A View, Labyrinth, Educating Rita, Topsy Turvy, Enchanted April, Mary Poppins, Her Majesty Mrs. Brown, An Ideal Husband, Importance of Being Earnest (1952 version), Wilde, Orlando, Women in Love, Shakespeare in Love. |
| Favorite Music | Celtic music, Venus Hum, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Beethoven, Loreena McKennitt, Scarlatti, Mozart, Handel, Gilbert and Sullivan, U2, Dire Straits, the Smiths, the Cure, Maroon 5, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Donovan, Al Stewart, British Light Music, ELO, Norah Jones |
| Favorite Books | Jane Eyre, Possession, the Chronicles of Narnia, Lyonesse by Jack Vance, Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Anne Perry's mystery novels, Banners of Silk by Rosalind Laker, The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer, Robert Browning's poems, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's poems, W.B. Yeats' poems, Chekhov's short stories, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Max Beerbohm's essays, A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. |
How do you pronounce the 'g' in bologna?
Silently. If I were pronouncing the name of the city it's named after, it would be silent as well, but would give a little "y" sound after the "n", sounding like "bolonya".