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“Ah, countess! You have not only tamed beasts!”
She could not cut a man down to size, so she was going to enslave lions!
Jan 1
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Susanna Forrest
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"His head sits in a cabinet in the Hermitage in St Petersburg, nearly 5,000 km away."
I had encountered the man who had once lain four metres under the kurgan before.
Dec 20, 2023
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“I thought all women who ran away from their husbands went to Paris.”
Mata Hari, a Pygmalion, and the Amazons
Oct 20, 2023
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Agnes Willoughby, part two
A week later she bought every last possession of William’s, and he was declared bankrupt that May.
Jul 20, 2023
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Agnes Willoughby, part one
"The lady is a kept mistress and ... she is also very extravagant"
Jun 20, 2023
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Tag Yourself: what's your Belle Epoque stocking personality?
Where fetish meets fashion and national chauvinism
May 2, 2023
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Amazons of Paris
Viral photographs of an enigmatic Belle Epoque horsewoman set me hunting through archives and circuses from St Petersburg to Paris to uncover the lives of women who were artistes, survivors, and scapegoats of the nineteenth century.
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