Madame Talbot’s Victorian Lowbrow
By Liria • Lug 16th, 2007 • Category: Web Links
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“Sideshows and the Elephant Man, Victorian era tattooed ladies, strange medical exhibits, dime museums and East End shows, the cult of death and the funeral rituals of the lower classes, pubs, bars and saloons, public executions,
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titillating scandals involving death and betrayal, morbid legends such as Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden, the penny dreadful, Victorian drugs such as Opium dens, Absinthe rituals & Wormwood deliriums, Morphine syringes sold to High Society women, Chloral Hydrate fiends, Laudanum addicts, Secret Hashish Societies, laughing gas parties, and patent medicines. Also drinking one’s cups, cocktails and grogs, Coach Inns and Night Houses, smoking pipes and cigarettes, morbid little jump rope songs, violent Punch and Judy puppet shows, Penny gaffs, the resurrectionists, graveyard picnics, and etc…”
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Il mondo surreale di Madame Ashleigh Talbot in vendita online.
Arte unica e surreale realizzata artigianalmente dall’artista: splendidi poster, bambole,
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feticci vittoriani e vintage divisi comodamente per categorie e una curiosissima e molto fornita sezione links. Skeletons & Devils, Vintage Ephemera, Circus Sideshows, Southern Gothic, Aphotecary, Strange Phenomena e molto altro. Incredibilmente spaventosa e raffinata. |
http://www.madametalbot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/victorianlowbrow
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Liria: Studentessa di lettere, aspirante giornalista/antropologa. O scrittrice. O trapezista. O fata dei dentini.
Interessi principali: libri e film, musica, chincaglierie, ironia, sogni e chiacchere, teatro.
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