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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

sogoodforbunnies:

laphamsquarterly:

Check out that swagger on Teddy Roosevelt. 

This is the best thing that has happened in Vogue. Ever. 

picadorbookroom:

“With these old shirts, it’s extremely difficult to get the studs through—it makes you aware of what it was like to get dressed in the early 1900s and why you would maybe need a valet to help.”

Behind the Scenes: Jeffrey Eugenides on becoming Henry James for Annie Liebovitz’s Vogue Magazine shoot at Edith Wharton’s estate in the Berkshires. 

Love these! Wish more magazines would go all out like this! 

I’ve posted some of these before but they are so wonderful - they deserved another posting.

from Natalia Vodianova by Annie Leibovitz | The Custom of the Country

from Natalia Vodianova by Annie Leibovitz | The Custom of the Country

The September 2012 issue of American Vogue pays tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton with the story ‘The Custom of the Country’, photographed by Annie Leibovitz and styled by Grace Coddington. The editorial features model Natalia Vodianova alongside Elijah Wood, Juno Temple, Mamie Gummer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jack Huston, Nate Lowman, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Max Minghella and James Corden.

The September 2012 issue of American Vogue pays tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton with the story ‘The Custom of the Country’, photographed by Annie Leibovitz and styled by Grace Coddington. The editorial features model Natalia Vodianova alongside Elijah Wood, Juno Temple, Mamie Gummer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jack Huston, Nate Lowman, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Max Minghella and James Corden.

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zero-creativity: legrandcirque: Writer Edith Wharton and her dogs. Photograph by E.F. Cooper. Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 1889-1890. Source: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Anyone else disturbed by how evil those dogs look?

zero-creativity:

legrandcirque:

Writer Edith Wharton and her dogs. Photograph by E.F. Cooper. Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 1889-1890.

Source: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Anyone else disturbed by how evil those dogs look?

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Heiresses of Wharton’s Era in Fashion on Her 150th Birthday - NYTimes.com

librarygoddess:

This is great! I loved Edith Wharton and her NY. What an interesting time in America and in England. Things were so different and we didn’t have the Kardashians but there was still scandal!