Ruth Elizabeth Stiff
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I love all things Earthy and Self-Help
History is one of my favourite subjects and I love to write short fiction
Research is so interesting for me too
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"Maison Lucile"
On 27th July, 1904, the best of London society crowded into a large, grey-walled Georgian room in Hanover Square, with an empty platform at one end. Music played, lights flashed and the Lords and Ladies sat in their chairs, looking at their programmes. Six stunning ‘models’ swayed, unsmiling, across the stage, wearing such delights as “Spring’s Delirium” and “Pleasure’s Thrall”. Although remarkably familiar for us today, this was a brand new ‘event’ in 1904. This piece of theatre was watched over by its creator, the 41 year old Lucy Duff Gordon, whose business 7 years later became “Maison Lucile” — the first international house of Couture.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff3 years ago in Styled
Nell Gwyn
“Let not poor Nelly starve”, Charles II. She was a famous actress who caught the attention of a King, becoming his mistress and giving birth to two sons by him. She was a jolly woman and not greedy, asking the King for only £500 a year, who also gave her a pension of £4,000+ a year. She herself never received a title, but her eldest son did. She was born into a poor family but rose to become Charles IIs most famous mistress. She was Nell Gwyn.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff3 years ago in Humans
Today's Lesson Is The Victorian Poor
During the Victorian Era, the poor were trapped in a never ending “Poverty Cycle”. The children born into these families had no chance of any education or schooling, because schooling was expensive and these poor families could hardly afford to feed themselves, (especially when dad or mum or both drank any money away!). Without any education, even the basic reading and writing, the children could not become apprentices or train for a skill in a profession. The fact is that without any ‘outside’ help, generations were trapped in this “Cycle”, (if, indeed, they lived past a certain age).
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff3 years ago in Humans
