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What Legendary 19th-Century Women Really Looked Like vs. Their Idealized Paintings

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...
CNN

‘The Hesitant Fiancée’s’ 19th-century eye roll is connecting with fed-up women on TikTok

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ire to ...
Hyperallergic

An Intricately Illustrated 19th-Century Study of Global Fashions

Cover of Taschen’s recent reprint of ‘The Costume History: From Ancient Times to the 19th Century’ by Auguste Racinet (all images from ‘The Costume History: From Ancient Times to the 19th Century,’ by ...
insider.si.edu

Artistic relations : literature and the visual arts in nineteenth-century France / edited by Peter Collier and Robert Lethbridge

Structures of cultural production in nineteenth-century France / Michael Moriarty -- The link between literary and artistic struggles / Pierre Bourdieu -- 'A tout prix devenir quelqu'un' : the women ...
Kaleido Scope

Speaker: Ralph Kingston on 19th-Century French Exploration

Please join us for a talk by Ralph Kingston, Associate Professor and History Department Graduate Program Officer of Auburn University's History Department. The title of Kingston's talk is "‘We will ...