Wells Cathedral

Happening in Ravenna this weekend. Come along...

Melancholy (1885/Etching) - Edmund Joseph Sullivan

#RestorationAge365 12 Jan 1675 William Wycherley satire The Country-Wife is staged at Drury Lane's Theatre Royal and utterly shocks. It takes sex comedy to new levels, and several women decry it, yet it highlights human nature and certain problems in society. #theatre #history

If you like well-researched #nonfiction, here are a few books that might be of interest. They portray the extraordinary lives of subjects rarely studied, but who truly deserve historical recognition. #17th and #18thCentury #Historical #Studies

Herbert Arnould Olivier (British, 1861 - 1952), Death and the Maiden, oil on canvas.

Albert Bierstadt - "Light in the Forest"

Court dress and train, 1809-10. Centraal Museum.

Today is World Dracula Day, which celebrates the possible date Bram Stoker’s Gothic vampire novel was first published in 1897. Take a look at our collection of Dracula essays which we published on the novel’s 125th anniversary. Tatiana Fajardo Clay Franklin Johnson gothickeatspress.com/dracula-and-be…

the phantom of the opera (2004)

Two smiling girls, by Danish painter Carl Bloch (1865). In private collection.

Byron in the Garden of Heroes

Fisherman And Mermaid, 1888-1889, Elihu Vedder

"June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies." Sara Coleridge, "The Garden Year"

Had an incredible time visiting Bournemouth yesterday and seeing Mary Shelley’s final resting place ✨✨ One of the prettiest churchyards I’ve ever seen!

England. Lovely Dress, c.1842. Silk satin, lined with cotton, calico and glazed cotton, brass, and reinforced with whalebone. hand sewn. © V&A #Fashionhistory

The Day Dream, by English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1880). Victoria and Albert Museum.