Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 55
December 7, 2016
Hope on recovery on my health
Latest date: I had a port line put into make it easier to rid myself of too much Iron Really tired all the time but im hanging in there,Christmas coming and cant cook for family and car needs repaired and groceries needed. I am barely staying a float.
Please help me any way you can. Accepting donations at Pay Pal at chrmeldan3@yahoo.com. No donation to small. This has really brought me down. I wanted to be able took cook for family but no groceries for that and I am still not feeling my bes...
Sheila Kitzinger
Sheila Kitzinger was a British natural childbirth advocate who campaigned for women to have more say in their birth choices. She was an anthropologist and author who was referred to as‘the Birth Mother of the nation’ and the ‘high priestess of natural childbirth.’
Sheila was born in Taunton on 29th March 1929. Her father, Alec, was a tailor, while her mother, Clare, was Sheila’s inspiration – working for a family planning clinic, campaigning for access to birth control and counselling women...
Fashions for December 1815
The December 1815 issue ofRudolph Ackermann’s Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politicsfeatured a design for an evening dress and a walking dress, both the creation of Mrs Bean, a milliner and dressmaker of Albemarle Street, Piccadilly.
FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER, 1815
Evening Dress
A crimson satin slip, underneath a frock of three-quarters length made of the silver-striped French gauze; the slip ornamented at the feet with clusters of flow...
Problems with Identification: Tudor Portraits
Portrait of an Unknown Lady c.1565-8 by Hans Eworth (1540-1573), Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
There is a yet another discrepancy as to who the sitter is in another Hans Eworth portrait from the Tudor era. This time around, the actual sitter is, in fact, unknown. The proposed sitter of the painting was (and still is often) Lady Eleanor Clifford. Wikipedia has the portrait as Lady Eleanor’s main portrait. However, there has been a nod to perhaps the sitter being Eleanor’s...
Regency Personalities Series-Francis Pickmore
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency (I include those who were born before 1811 and who died after 1795), today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Francis Pickmore
1756 – 24 February 1818
Francis Pickmore was a naval officer and colonial governor born in Chester, Cheshire, England and died St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Pickmore spent his early naval career in Newfoundland as a lieutenant in 1777 and b...
December 6, 2016
First woman senator progressive and regressive, all in one
When the 115th Congress is sworn into office next month, it will include 21 women senators, a record, and there will be three states where both senators are women.
Of the 46 women to have served in the US Senate since its inception, fully half have taken office during the past 20 years.
But one doesn’t hear a whole lot about the Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, the first woman to serve in the US Senate. It may partly be because she served just a single day, but it’s al...
The First Canadian Snows
[image error]Christmas History 25. It’s that time of year again! Last year I wrote 24 Christmas History articles for Windows into History, and if you would like to view those please click on the Contents link in the menu bar above, and scroll down to all the Christmas History articles. You can also type Christmas History into the search bar on the right of the screen.
Now we are into December, let’s get into the Christmas spirit by looking at a quote from the snappily titled Forest S...
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry, is some serious piece of embroidery, consisting of 50 scenes, with 632 people, 202 horses, 55 dogs, 505 creatures, 37 buildings, 41 ships and 49 trees. It measures seventy metres in length, along with Latin captions in the upper and lower margins.
It tells the story of William the Conqueror’s invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
The early stage of the Bayeux Tapestry tells of Harold’s journey to France, an...
December 1, 2016
Sketches of the Fair Sex
So what were the women of the eighteenth-century like? Well, we came across this publication ‘Sketches of the Fair Sex’ written about eighteenth-century women, so we thought we would share with you a few extracts about the author’s view of women across Europe, although the book provides descriptions and anecdotes from around the world in 1799 plus much, much more! It is not clear as to whether the author was male or female, the author simply simply described themselves as...
Regency Personalities Series-James Stanier Clarke
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency (I include those who were born before 1811 and who died after 1795), today I continue with one of themany period notables.
James Stanier Clarke
1766–4 October 1834
James Stanier Clarke
James Stanier Clarke was the eldest son of Edward Clarke and Anne Grenfield, and brother of Edward Daniel Clarke, he was born on 17 December 1766 at Mahon, Minorca where his father was at th...
