A Victorian Whisper
. . . This site is dedicated to all those who generously preserve the past for our future generations. It is my hope that you will be able to document the lives of your Victorian ancestors and enjoy getting to know them from a historical perspective. To see their photos and be able to know what they did for a living, who their children were and how many they had, what the world around them must have looked like, and perhaps even what kind of things they might have enjoyed. Please feel free to use the art on this site for your personal albums, scrapbooks, and non-commercial web sites/pages. If you use any of these images on your web site/page, please give me credit and a link back to your favorite page on this site. Each image comes from my personal archives of U.S. Victorian publications and postcards. (I have included a circa year on each piece of art so that you will have a better idea in which decade to place it.) Thanks for visiting and enjoy!
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A delightful look back at the advice and expressions of the Victorian Era.
updated weekly
As quoted from: St. Nicholas Songs, The Century Company, c. 1885
The Minuet
Mary Mapes Dodge
Grandma told me all about it,
Told me so I could not doubt it,
How she danced -my grandma danced!
Long ago.
How she held her pretty head,
How her dainty skirt she spread,
Turning out her little toes;
How she slowly leaned and rose-
Long ago.
Grandma's hair was bright and sunny;
Dimpled cheeks, too, -ah, how funny!
Really quite a pretty girl,
Long ago.
Bless her! why, she wears a cap,
Grandma does, and takes a nap
Every single day; and yet
Grandma danced the minuet
Long ago.
Modern ways are quite alarming,
Grandma says; but boys were charming-
Girls and boys, I mean, of course-
Long ago.
Brave but modest, grandly shy-
She would like to have us try
Just to feel like those who met
In the graceful minuet
Long ago.
I hope you enjoy my site.
If you find it useful, a link back here would be quite welcome!
Updated on July 19, 2008
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