Botanicals In Blue: A Victorian Woman’s Take On Algae. Anna Atkins, the first person to publish a book of photography, showed a predilection for botany. by Julie Leibach, on March 16, 2016. Chordaria ...

THE DRESS DIARY: Secrets From a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe, by Kate Strasdin. The way we dress is a fundamental expression of identity: Garments function as indicators of aesthetic tastes, ...

Not a “Lolita” in the Nabokovian sense, the woman was an adult dressed in Lolita fashion, a style of dress popularized in Japan in the mid-1990s and informed by the Victorian era and ornate ...