Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper

Gilded Age New Orleans is overrun with prostitutes, pornographers, and a malicious Jack the Ripper copycat. Can ambitious typewriting teacher Fanny Newcomb outwit the corrupt police to identify the fearful menace known as the Irish Channel Ripper? linktr.ee/anabrazil

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Eugène Atget Marché aux fleurs, Paris c.1900

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Gustav Wentzel Chess players 1886

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Shinji Nakabori (via Shinji Nakabori)

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Faubourg Delassize

New Orleans

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “ Vincent Van Gogh”, 1887

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Pea Blossoms

Edward Poynter, 1890

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Spirit, George Roux (1885)

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Iris (detail) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1886)

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Some belated photos from the "Fashioned by Sargent" exhibit at the MFA Boston. My pictures just don't do it justice! I'm not one for hyperbolics, but it literally took my breath away, even with the crowds of people everywhere.

evening dress by the House of Worth (c.1880); owned by Sarah Choate Sears, who Sargent painted in another dress in 1889

reflection of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889); costume designed by Alice Comyns Carr and created by Ada Nettleship

evening dress with matching shoes by the House of Worth (c.1895)

Mrs. Charles E. Inches (Louise Pomeroy) (1887); dress made in 1887 and likely altered 1902. Louise was pregnant at the time of her portrait, and if you look very closely, you can see the dress skirt has adjustable panels to accommodate a changing body.

photos by me (@edwardian-girl-next-door)

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3a. The shoes are from L. Perchellet, who sold elegant shoes on the Place Vendome in Paris. They were made to match a different dress that’s now faded in the MFA, Boston collection.

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Albert Aublet, "Selene", 1880

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Interior. The dining room, 1888, Vilhelm Hammershøi

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Antonio Frilli, “Sweet Dreams”, Marble sculpture (𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟤).

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Victorian Bracelet

c. 1880

Silver-gilt, half pearls and rose-and brilliant-cut diamonds

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Two-piece evening dress

c. 1885-1889

made by Tillie Heine

Minnesota Historical Society

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Uptown

New Orleans

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Historic Lafayette Cemetery in New Orleans.