This is all my costume research across the years of my Theatre Design course.
For second year work select Feb 2010 or Mar 2010 on the drop down menu on the right. These sections relate to costume and fashion from the early 1800s.
For third year work select Oct 2010, Nov 2010 or Dec 2010 on the drop down menu on the right. This archive is for the character Toad of Toad Hall from the Edwardian era.

Friday, 12 February 2010

Nineteenth Century Literature

(Kirsty Blades)

Nineteenth Century Female Literature


Jane Austin 1775 - 1817

1811 - Sense and Sensibility

1813 - Pride and Predudice

1814 - Mansfield Park

1815 - Emma

1817 - Northanger Abbey

1817 - Persuation

The themes throughout all of her novels are Love, Relationships, Manners, Upbringing, Moral Rightness and Education.

She was known as a romance novelist. All of her stories have either been recreated for film or television series, if not for both.



The Bronte Sisters 1816 - 1855


Charlotte was the eldest followed by Emily 2 years later and then Anne a further 2 years after that.


1833 - Charlotte's The Green Dwarf

1847 - Charlotte's Jane Ayre

Emily's Wuthering Heights

Anne's Agnes Grey

1848 - Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Emily dies

1849 - Charlotte's Shirley

Anne dies

1853 - Charloote's Vilette

1855 - Charlotte dies

1857 - Charlotte's The Professor


All of the Bronte sisters were talented novelists, poets and letter writers. Their father was a priest and they had a brother, who painted this picture, then painted himself out.

They grew up in Howarth in the Parsonage looking out over a graveyard set in front of a Moors. This is a very similar setting to that within Wuthering Heights. Suggesting the girls wrote to satisfy their imaginations, due to the lack of things to do.

The wrote under Pen Names in their same initials;

Charlotte Bronte - Currer Bell, Emily Bronte - Ellis Bell, Anne Bronte - Acton Bell.



George Eliot 1819 - 1880


1857 - Adam Bede

1860 - The Mill on the Floss

1861 - Silas Marner

1863 - Romola

1866 - Felix Holt, The Radical

1871-1872 - Middlemarch

1876 - Daniel Deronda


George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans.

She is now well known for her realism and Psychological insight. She used a male pen name to ensure her works were taken seriously and to evade contemporary prejudice against female writers.


Nineteenth Century Male Literature


1836-37 - CM The Posthumous Papers of Pickwick Club

1837-39 - CM The Adventures of Oliver Twist

1838-39 - CM The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

(and many more past the years of my interest)


A lot of Charles Dickens’ books were originally written in the format of Monthly Serials (CM).

He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work.


Alfred Lord Tennyson 1890-1892


1830 - Chiefly Lyrical

The Dying Swan

Kranken

Mariana

1832 - Lady Clara Vere De Vere

1833 - Poems

The Lotos-Eaters

The Lady of Shalott

(and many more past the years of my interest)


Alfred Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate during most of Queen Victoria’s Reign.

He was a very famous poet. His work is quite suggestive to the idea that he loved his sister’s husband, Arthur Hallam. Especially the work he produced after Hallam’s death. He even visited Hallam’s grave whilst on his honeymoon!


Consulate Style - Neoclassicism


Consulate Style

Term used to describe the continuation in the decorative arts of the Neo-classical style in France between 1800 and 1805 under Napoleon Bonaparte (First Consul; 1799-1804). His Consulate was an era of renewal in the furniture, porcelain and metalwork industries in France.

Neoclassicism Neoclassicism has many branches. With regards to clothing it refers to the Greek Renewal. This means the Grecian necklines and hairstyles on women. The higher waistbands.


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