The saying "The past is a foreign country" comes from the 1950s novel “The Go-Between,” which is set at the tail end of the Victorian era. It’s one of those concepts that sounds outlandish until one actually sits down and looks at the reality of life in the past.
The “Victorian Chronicles” Instagram page is dedicated to sharing interesting and illuminating posts and images about the Victorian era. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to add your own thoughts to the comments section down below.
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Portrait of a young Victorian girl taken circa 1897. Picture found on website findmygrave and used as picture for death of Emma E. I. Ochsner who died aged 10, Joliet Township, Will County, Illinois, USA and buried Oakwood Cemetery.
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#42
Australian artist Norman Lindsay with wife and muse Rose Soady. Photographed by Lionel Lindsay in his Bond Street studio, Sydney circa 1909.
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#43
Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934), Miss N (Portrait of Evelyn Nesbit) - 1903.
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#44
The cabarets DU CIEL ET DE L ENFER on the Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, France: two celebrated night spots offering a choice of entertainment, divine or diabolical Date: circa 1905.
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#45
Austrian actress Mia May as the embodiment of the goddess Astarte in Part V of the silent film The Mistress of the World (1919).
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#47
Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity". She was also the first woman whose photographic image, due in particular to photographers Nadar and Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, was distributed worldwide. These images were taken between 1902 and 1908.
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#48
Vintage “selfie” photo set with unknown female couple either as lovers or possibly sisters ( due to likeness) circa 1900. Photographed by Hugh Mangum.
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#49
This is how Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish explorer, was photographed in 1912 when he was found. Ejnar was isolated with Iver Iversen, from the same expedition, for two and a half years in a hut in Greenland waiting to be rescued.
Ejnar was sent by Denmark with the mission to recover the map and diary of an earlier lost expedition that tried to prove that the Peary Channel did not exist. According to the U.S. Greenland was not a single island but was divided by the Peary Channel and therefore claimed that part of the territory as its own.
Mikkelsen’s expedition had numerous problems and delays, finally Ejnar and Iver were abandoned by the other members. Due to the lack of food they were forced to eat the dogs pulling the sledge, they suffered hallucinations chasing imaginary animals, they were attacked by bears, etc.
In the picture you can see a photograph on the wall behind Ejnar. It shows the 53 pupils of a home economics school that filled their long arctic days. The photo was so much talked about that it even led to a fight when Iversen dedicated a love song to the girl Mikkelsen had chosen as his girlfriend. Iversen had chosen 4 girlfriends in the picture, so Ejnar got angry when the other tried to take away the one he had chosen. He got so upset that for two days he didn’t speak to Iversen.
Mikkelsen returned to Denmark as a hero as he managed to retrieve the maps from the previous expedition that proved that the Peary Channel did not exist and that Greenland was therefore Danish. He also ended his photographic courtship when he met Naja Marie Heiberg Holm, daughter of another explorer, whom he married a few months later.
Ejnar was sent by Denmark with the mission to recover the map and diary of an earlier lost expedition that tried to prove that the Peary Channel did not exist. According to the U.S. Greenland was not a single island but was divided by the Peary Channel and therefore claimed that part of the territory as its own.
Mikkelsen’s expedition had numerous problems and delays, finally Ejnar and Iver were abandoned by the other members. Due to the lack of food they were forced to eat the dogs pulling the sledge, they suffered hallucinations chasing imaginary animals, they were attacked by bears, etc.
In the picture you can see a photograph on the wall behind Ejnar. It shows the 53 pupils of a home economics school that filled their long arctic days. The photo was so much talked about that it even led to a fight when Iversen dedicated a love song to the girl Mikkelsen had chosen as his girlfriend. Iversen had chosen 4 girlfriends in the picture, so Ejnar got angry when the other tried to take away the one he had chosen. He got so upset that for two days he didn’t speak to Iversen.
Mikkelsen returned to Denmark as a hero as he managed to retrieve the maps from the previous expedition that proved that the Peary Channel did not exist and that Greenland was therefore Danish. He also ended his photographic courtship when he met Naja Marie Heiberg Holm, daughter of another explorer, whom he married a few months later.
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#50
Madeleine Astor, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, holds her baby, John Jacob Astor VI, in 1912. Pregnant at the time of the tragedy, Madeleine was the young wife (18 years when they married) of John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest man aboard the Titanic. She was rescued on the Carpathia, while her husband perished in the sinking.
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