Emily Brand

I love Fiona Sampson’s work on Mary Shelley so I’m VERY excited to have my hands on her new biography of the incredible Aurore Dupin / George Sand

Swipe for the jazzy real cover, it’s out now ⭐

Congrats @fionasampson.bsky.social & thank you for the sneak peek @doubledayuk.bsky.social 📚

I love Fiona Sampson’s work on Mary Shelley so I’m VERY excited to have my hands on her new biography of the incredible Aurore Dupin / George Sand

Swipe for the jazzy real cover, it’s out now ⭐

Congrats @fionasampson.bsky.social & thank you for the sneak peek @doubledayuk.bsky.social 📚

One of Marie Antoinette’s chambermaids … it’s very sad!

That chapter did happen to be of particular interest to me, it’s greatly informed my own account

Yes, me too!

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Me when trying my best to write a fairly grisly & emotional French Revolution death, but my toddler is insisting on listening to Westlife over and over and over and over

I completely agree, and it’s made me want to watch To Walk Invisible again, which I loved

Emily in Yorkshire is something I, personally, can get very much behind

That’s very well put!

I remember loving To Walk Invisible, so recommend that too!

Avoiding that other Brontë thing for reasons, I recently watched 'Emily' with Emma Mackey instead.

I thought much of it was beautiful & – though obviously very fictionalised – quite moving. Wonder what the rest of the history world thinks? #wutheringheights

Book page showing suggested ring inscriptions, including ‘Île ring thy thumb, then clap thy bum’

A brief escape to the 17th century, where one writer is giving his suggestions for heartfelt inscriptions on poesy rings to a lover

Truly a lost golden age of roman-... oh wait no never mind
#17c

I suspect it has discoloured slightly and would have been a brighter silver, as was the case with Princess Charlotte’s wedding dress of 1816

Happy Valentine’s Day to this magnificent royal wedding gown of 1774, now in the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition 😍

This dress of silver brocaded silk – similar to that worn by the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette at her own wedding – belonged to Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta, future queen of Sweden

Happy Valentine’s Day to this magnificent royal wedding gown of 1774, now in the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition 😍

This dress of silver brocaded silk – similar to that worn by the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette at her own wedding – belonged to Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta, future queen of Sweden

As we are all talking about Wuthering Heights these days here is my own pilgrimage (many moons ago) to Brontë country, including Top Withens, the ruined farmhouse that supposedly inspired Emily 🌸

Tried to convince myself it was historically appropriate

It was that or a full bottle, which seemed more unjustifiable

It felt like fate

I was seduced

Can confirm: it is… not delicious

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Have had a WONDERFUL day at the Marie Antoinette exhibition in London & have treated myself to a decadent can of red wine for the train home

Has this EVER been a good idea?

Lady Amelia Darcy, c.1764, aged 10

In 1778 – as a married mother of three – she would elope with the handsome but DREADFUL Jack Byron (future father of the poet). She regretted it quickly, as her letters with her first husband reveal.

Coming up for auction... will accept as a birthday present 🎁

Lady Amelia Darcy, c.1764, aged 10

In 1778 – as a married mother of three – she would elope with the handsome but DREADFUL Jack Byron (future father of the poet). She regretted it quickly, as her letters with her first husband reveal.

Coming up for auction... will accept as a birthday present 🎁

Today's writing: the ruin of Marie Antoinette 💎

Bridgerton kicks off with a reimagining of Marie Antoinette, courtesy of Rosamund’s masquerade costume 💎💎💎💎💎

The telltale sign is the necklace that embroiled the French queen in (undeserved) scandal in 1785

(I’m writing about the Diamond Necklace Affair today so this is research adjacent. Sort of)

Ah thank you, that book cover did catch my eye!

Thanks very much for this! Must take a stroll past next time

Thanks everyone for your answers & shares: for anyone else interested, I'm pinning it to 19 rue de Cléry (Hôtel Lubert), now in the 2nd arrondissement 🎨

Are there any Vigée Le Brun experts on here? Do we know where her studio was during the 1770–80s? Presumably Paris, but ... where 👩‍🎨

I'm trying to paint a picture (lol) of her working life, but haven't been able to pin it down for certain #18c