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Victorian Tweets to Tickle Your Fancy

I browsed around Twitter today, and found the following gems! If you’re looking for some interesting, pretty, funny and inspiring tidbits of information, check out these tweets:

Victorian Cat Funerals
https://twitter.com/Felix_Ineptias/status/690755602310569984

Victorian Samplers embroidered by young girls
https://twitter.com/fashionatbowes/status/690848757261451264

Digital Dickens-Finding Boz online
https://twitter.com/LoyolaVictorian/status/712367387656454146

A 1898 Critic’s Choice List of Best Novels – Have you read them all?
https://twitter.com/michaeljwaldron/status/661616977543364608

Victorian Spinning Tops, now in GIF form
https://twitter.com/drreznicek/status/661890422382333952

Ode to Kate Greenaway, Victorian illustrator
https://twitter.com/LadyReedmore/status/607056679679737857

greenaway-girls
Illustration by Kate Greenaway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victorian Love Letters from a Valet to a Housekeeper
https://twitter.com/rosalindmwhite/status/722462413682044929

Newly discovered Charlotte Bronte poem
https://twitter.com/VictStudies/status/666306557995589636

Victorian Halloween Costumes
https://twitter.com/VictStudies/status/651085330163101696

Why Victorians thought women taking Tea Breaks was dangerous
https://twitter.com/VictStudies/status/631846689913999362

Browse and enjoy!

 

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