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Sandra Foster’s tiny Victorian Cottage
This is one of those things I will reblog every time. A real fairytale locale.
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everythingvictorian-edwardian:
A woman who rebelled against Victorian domesticity risked being declared insane and committed to an asylum. And this was usually at her husband’s or father’s request, and she generally had no right to contest or appeal. Women were further disempowered by moral treatment once locked away.Victorian psychiatry claimed male dominance was therapeutic.
Nearly all Victorian physicians considered women more fragile and sensitive than men. It was believed that women were more susceptible to nervous breakdown. This diagnosis covered strange behaviours and nerve symptoms found most often in women, but also sometimes in ‘feminine’ men. The most commonly prescribed treatment for an unmarried woman showing signs of hysteria was to find a husband.
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everythingvictorian-edwardian:
A Victorian-era lachrymosa, also called lachrymatory, tear catchers, or tear vials. Sometimes worn on a necklace, sometimes merely held, they were used the gather the tears wept by mourners at funerals. One type of lachrymosa had a special top which allowed the tears to evaporate (signifying the time to stop mourning), others had a sealed top to allow the tears to last for a year, at which point they would be poured on the grave of the person whom the tears were wept for.
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