Continues ridiculously hot
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chocolatepotStarted in on sewing the bodice - I had to recut all the front pieces of the lining from my muslin, and I'm not 100% sure whether it's going to work (my bust-to-waist curve-in is a lot sharper than on the original, a recurring problem). Tomorrow I'll be cutting out the pretty cotton, and trying to be very very good about matching it at the enter front. Fortunately, that's really the only place that requires matching. Also fortunately, I found my piping twine in a box.
Watched a lot of Catherine Cookson today; what was up with her and pseudo-incest? And also pedophilia?
This weekend I've been working on a frankly random sort of project for my blog - I was GBooksing for clothing references in the mid-18th century, and I came across the script of Polly Honeycombe, a 1760 play about novel-reading. In the preface, there's a list several pages long of books that were available for lending in a circulating library, and I decided for some reason that I should copy this list; try to find readable copies of as many as possible on GBooks, Project Gutenberg, and the Kindle store (for free or 99c); and put the authors and dates of publication on the list. Having done that (it's 5.5 pages!!), now I'm figuring out how to contextualize it. TBH it's interesting and I think I can say some cool things about the writing profession and especially female authors, but I do keep coming back to the word "random". Hopefully people will come away knowing more about Eliza Haywood and Sarah Fielding, and maybe try out a few 18th century novels.
(The fashion-related thing I got from the preface is that he writes about a woman who needs new clothes for the general mourning on the death of, presumably, George II, because the mourning clothes she'd had made up for Anne, Princess of Orange wore out, and she's apparently planning to get by on one new bombazine sack and petticoat for the whole six months' mourning. Is this because it was normal to wear one outfit every single day? Or was general mourning not really to be worn at all times, just when you're being social?)
(I would ABSOLUTELY be up for staging Polly Honeycombe someday, omg. It's just a one-act farce, and so silly. It would be so fun, even as a reading! Overly-romantic girl and boy, utterly unromantic boy, angry father, comical nurse, drunk mother.)
Watched a lot of Catherine Cookson today; what was up with her and pseudo-incest? And also pedophilia?
This weekend I've been working on a frankly random sort of project for my blog - I was GBooksing for clothing references in the mid-18th century, and I came across the script of Polly Honeycombe, a 1760 play about novel-reading. In the preface, there's a list several pages long of books that were available for lending in a circulating library, and I decided for some reason that I should copy this list; try to find readable copies of as many as possible on GBooks, Project Gutenberg, and the Kindle store (for free or 99c); and put the authors and dates of publication on the list. Having done that (it's 5.5 pages!!), now I'm figuring out how to contextualize it. TBH it's interesting and I think I can say some cool things about the writing profession and especially female authors, but I do keep coming back to the word "random". Hopefully people will come away knowing more about Eliza Haywood and Sarah Fielding, and maybe try out a few 18th century novels.
(The fashion-related thing I got from the preface is that he writes about a woman who needs new clothes for the general mourning on the death of, presumably, George II, because the mourning clothes she'd had made up for Anne, Princess of Orange wore out, and she's apparently planning to get by on one new bombazine sack and petticoat for the whole six months' mourning. Is this because it was normal to wear one outfit every single day? Or was general mourning not really to be worn at all times, just when you're being social?)
(I would ABSOLUTELY be up for staging Polly Honeycombe someday, omg. It's just a one-act farce, and so silly. It would be so fun, even as a reading! Overly-romantic girl and boy, utterly unromantic boy, angry father, comical nurse, drunk mother.)
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Date: 2017-06-19 11:39 am (UTC)Looking forward to your list, anyway ... nothing like a bit of Gutenberg trawling in hot weather!
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Date: 2017-06-21 05:14 pm (UTC)