Sarah A. Chrisman is the author of the books Victorian Secrets: What A Corset Taught Me About the Past, the Present and Myself, and This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion and Technology; she also compiled and edited the Victorian etiquette guide True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen. For more information, visit her website.
Post by penguingrrl on Sept 9, 2015 18:19:39 GMT -5
Absolute insanity. And how on earth are they blogging if they eschew all things modern? Also, people from the Victorian era, if placed in modern society, would think they're insane for eschewing plumbing and electricity and safe food.
Please to be seeing my post about how these times were NOT GREAT FOR THOSE OF THE NON-CAUCASIAN DENOMINATION.
STOP IT, WHITE PEOPLE.
Lol maybe they don't care.
I just saw someone sharing a post yesterday about a woman who placed an ad looking for black people to play slaves at her husband's Django themed birthday party , so, I'm going to say some people don't GAF.
I feel like folks in the Victorian age would have been ALL OVER electric refrigerators.
Yes. My house was built before indoor plumbing and refrigerators were a thing and I'm sure it was like the best!day!ever! when those things were finally installed.
Like I said in the ML thread, I love the Victorian Era and "old things" in general, but I don't get trying to live like people lived back then. I'm fine with having their furniture but keeping my internet and flushable toilet. Doesn't have to be either or.
And why are they blogging, if they are trying to be all Old Time-y?
Yeah, our house was built in the 1800s, and still has the original wood floors and wainscoting and stuff, and we've been trying to furnish it with antiques, but it also has plumbing and electricity and high-speed internet because we're not down with this kind of hipster foolishness.
I just saw someone sharing a post yesterday about a woman who placed an ad looking for black people to play slaves at her husband's Django themed birthday party , so, I'm going to say some people don't GAF.
...GIRL IF YOU COULD SEE MY FACE RIGHT NOW...
I know it exactly what it looks like. Just like I knew I was about to get an all caps response.
"Everything escalated organically from there, and now our whole life revolves around this ongoing research project. No one pays us for it, but we take it more seriously than many people take their paying jobs."
I could only get halfway through it. So they like food poisoning and living in constant fire danger. Cool.
I feel like folks in the Victorian age would have been ALL OVER electric refrigerators.
I just read a book called Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War. The author travels with hardcore confederate re-enactors, who disdain people who do things like eat modern food, or wear any kind of non-authentic clothing (including underwear) or use bug spray or sunscreen. Dude. Civil War soldiers would have been all over Dr Scholls insoles and SPF 100.
"Everything escalated organically from there, and now our whole life revolves around this ongoing research project. No one pays us for it, but we take it more seriously than many people take their paying jobs."
And what, exactly, is your paying job, may I ask?
I was wondering this myself. She's apparently a published author, but she's no Anne Rice.