The origins of today's popular scrapbooking hobby extend back to the 19th century, when publishers found an enthusiastic market for their colorful chromolithographic images. This reproduction of an authentic scrapbook of 130 years ago reflects Victorian sensibilities and interests. A brief Introduction discusses the hobby's history and all of the images are included on a bonus CD-ROM. 347 images.

This volume is a critical edition of a Victorian scrapbook, composed of cuttings from advertising images from the 1880's. These images are arranged in hand-drawn domestic spaces and embellished with watercolour details. At the foot of each page is a handwritten running text, written by an unknown Victorian author, that provides a narrative to explain the accompanying images. The album also includes four original short stories, interspersed by twenty-three vignettes, which, like advertisements in a magazine, echo and reinforce themes in the surrounding content. The album highlights issues of concern to women at the fin de siècle: romance, marriage, shopping, and house decoration. The satirical commentary on late Victorian shopping and commodity culture provides a fascinating insight into the interests and responses of consumers during this period. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary and advertising history.

The 'Swinging Sixties' were a concoction of many things that brought Britain to the forefront - England winning the World Cup on 1966, mini skirts and mini cars, the Beatles and Twiggy. 'The 1960s Scrapbook' presents a unique visual record of a turbulent decade.

This book/DVD contains a stunning collection of decorative patterns that paper crafters and artists will find both versatile and easy to use. Add your own color and texture in Photoshop Elements by following the easy instructions, and you will soon have an endless array of designs at your disposal. Print your designs on paper or fabric, and use them in scrapbooking, cardmaking, altered arts, and other projects. Digital scrapbookers and graphic artists will find these royalty-free backgrounds a wonderful design resource as well. The DVD features 135 unique black-and-white patterns, provided in JPG and PNG format, as well as 40 ready-to-print color versions. Pattern motifs are also included as layered TIFF files, enabling even greater customization of the patterns.

This scrapbook is a unique and joyful celebration of Victoriana. Neither a facsimile nor a reproduction, it is a collection of lush compositions that have been created out of exquisite cards, calendars, and other artwork from a century ago. Full color.

Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that’s also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult’s father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands—a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver—a true comedy of errors ensues. As history’s least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult’s mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check. As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act.

US scholars of literature explore how illustrated books became a cultural form of great importance in England and Scotland from the 1830s and 1840s to the end of the century. Some of them consider particular authors or editions, but others look at general themes such as illustrations of time, maps and metaphors, literal illustration, and city scenes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This title examines comprehensively the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage, presenting imagery that has rarely - and in many cases, never - been displayed or reproduced.

Generously quotating from poetry, nursery rhymes, and popular authors, Banks recounts the love affair between the Victorians and their cats--personified as the epitome of domestic virtue. Full-color photographs throughout.

Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.