An abandoned Edwardian era bank, somewhere in England
#England #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Edwardian #History #Architecture
An abandoned Edwardian era bank, somewhere in England
#England #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Edwardian #History #Architecture
An abandoned Edwardian era bank, somewhere in England
#England #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Edwardian #History #Architecture
Edwardian Christmas card #advent calendar day 5… sorry about the late start, life and health has got in the way. This delightful donkey one folds out..
I bought a job lot of Edwardian Christmas cards earlier in the year and wanted to share them #Edwardian
Edwardian Christmas card #advent calendar day 5… sorry about the late start, life and health has got in the way. This delightful donkey one folds out..
I bought a job lot of Edwardian Christmas cards earlier in the year and wanted to share them #Edwardian
RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.
10/18
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They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”
11/18
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RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.
📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière
9/18
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RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.
10/18
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Mexico
“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday
🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)
8/18
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #FordMadoxFord
RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.
📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière
9/18
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian
“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw
7/18
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“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday
🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)
8/18
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #FordMadoxFord
Please allow me to introduce Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936): traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction, he was born #OTD, 24 May.
6/18
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“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw
7/18
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Conrad #JosephConrad #Shaw
Please allow me to introduce Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936): traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction, he was born #OTD, 24 May.
6/18
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Is buried in a grave beside his wife on a small lake-island not far from Glasgow? Has, surprisingly, been almost totally ignored, even almost forgotten, as a personality & politician & writer by recent generations?
5/18
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Wrote nearly thirty books, including 200 short stories & sketches? Knew nearly all the great writers & artists of his day? Had a funeral attended by the President of a republic & the two most famous horses in the world?
4/18
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Helped to found both the UK Labour Party AND the Scottish National Party? Was a ferocious critic of imperialism, racism & cruelty to any human or animal? Bought his favourite horse—an Argentine mustang—from the Glasgow Tramway Company and rode it for twenty years?
3/18
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Went into Parliament as a Liberal & came out as a Socialist? Assaulted a policeman in defence of free speech & was sent to prison? Travelled in disguise in 🇲🇦 Morocco trying to reach a forbidden city?
2/18
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What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?
Buckle up – it’s going to be a long, wild 🧵 …
1/18
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