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Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette | Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

We do not care that we bought the shorts we're wearing at a thrift store during Clinton's second term. Some styles are timeless.

We also do not care that we're posting this on Thursday. Time is a construct, and we can't be expected to keep up with what day it is.

#WDNCW @dabbe

kspenmoll 🙌🏻🙌🏻 2w

Amiable Amen! 2w

JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 2w

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GingerAntics 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 all of this, yes girl yes 2w

AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼...wait, it's already Thursday...😂👌🏼💝. (edited) 2w

dabbe #wdnc that we just read thison Friday. It‘s still hilarious! 🤩😍🤩 (edited) 2w

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Eggs

E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776 | William Edward Nelson

The Latin phrase E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One — is our de facto national motto. It was a rallying cry of our founders as they built a single unified nation from a collection of states. It‘s a good reminder of where we need to go.
-Steve Blank

#EPluribusUnum

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo

Eggs ❤️🦅💙🤗 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks (edited) 1mo

rubyslippersreads I always hear this in the voice of the Wizard, as he gives the Scarecrow his diploma. #doctorofthinkology 1mo

Eggs @rubyslippersreads Awww great memory #Oz 1mo

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eeclayton

Lovers' Vows: A Play in Five Acts Altered from the German of Kotzebue | Mrs. Inchbald

so-so

So I've just read the play from Mansfield Park 🤓

Short, quick paced, and easy to read, Lovers' Vows is an entertaining little play with some humour. I picked it up to gain a deeper understanding of Mansfield Park, and it will be valuable when thinking about role choices and relationships in the novel. However, I'm not sure the play would linger with me on its own merits.

#JaneAustenThenAndNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig

eeclayton Also, here's a somewhat long but fascinating analysis of the parallels between play and novel: https://www.reddit.com/r/janeausten/comments/l8ycmo/understanding_lovers_vows_th... in case anyone is interested in that rabbit hole 😁 1mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig Ooh what a great idea! 1mo

eeclayton @Crinoline_Laphroaig and it's very doable. A much smaller undertaking than reading Udolpho for Northanger Abbey! 😂 1mo

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rwmg

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home | Abigail Williams

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The author uses diaries, library records, and other papers as well as elocution guides to reconstruct who was reading what in the 18th century and how. Reading was much more of a shared activity with people reading aloud to each other from newspapers, periodicals, non fiction, joke books, and religious works, and a good reading voice was essential.

rwmg Even with the rise of the novel during this time, reading was much more fragmentary with people reading extracts to elicit emotional responses rather than complete novels such as Behemoths like “Clarissa“ or the more reasonably sized “Tom Jones“.

Fascinating. 3mo

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rwmg

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home | Abigail Williams

#sunshinewellness

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Karisa

Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Frances Burney

👏👏👏 You tell him, Captain!

Whether it‘s 1778 or today, no means no. I‘m loving Evelina so much!

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CoveredInRust

Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Frances Burney

I feel like the Captain would've loved Trump. 😑

Ruthiella I hated the Captain in this book. He was so rude! 😠 3mo

CoveredInRust @Ruthiella I can't stand most of the men! The hero is really the only one I'm like "yeah, you'll do"... and the guardian. He's fine so far. 3mo

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CoveredInRust

Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Frances Burney

I first read this for a uni class and, because we we had about a week and a half to read and discuss it, didn't pay a ton of attention to ENJOYING it.

After taking a step back from analyzing everything I read for academia, I'm slowly going back to rereading some classics I read back then. Some I have hated (side eye to Moll Flanders) but this one I'm really enjoying. It's entertaining as hell and has outrageous characters. And the HAIR. GAWD.

TheBookHippie I‘m with ya on Moll Flanders 😵‍💫 3mo

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CoveredInRust

Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Frances Burney