Weekend Links and a Promo Code

 

Happy summer solstice, everyone!  I hope you didn't miss the longest day of the year.  Here are a few things to read this weekend (plus some book sales)....

Marie Antoinette fashion exhibit coming to the V&A  (oh, how I would love to see this!)

Sargent and the "Dollar Princesses"

A man who lives as William Morris 3 months a year

A 600 year old rectory for sale  (I wants it!)

"Outrageous" the new Mitford Sisters biopic on BritBox (the first two episodes were so fun)

Spotlight on Bath for Jane Austen's 250th

Annnnd, book sales!

Here is a link for 25% off the paper copy of "Flora Flowerdew and the Secret of the Sarcophagus"

And if you haven't read the first Flora book yet, it's .99 for just a short time...

Weekend Links

 Welllllll, it has been a week!  A week that feels like 10 years.  I think  we deserve to snuggle down in the Ritz Bar, have a Hemingway Daiquiri (or whatever you like), and read some distracting articles.  What have you been doing this week?  read anything good?  (I'm just finishing Dan Jones new bio of Henry V...)

What French women are shopping for

Newly discovered Lavinia Fontana portrait discovered

Virginia Woolfe's birthday was last week!  (along with mine, different years, natch)  Look for a Heroine of the Weekend post on her next week

It was also Burns Night!  I celebrated with a few Scots friends with some bagpipe music and copious bottles of Laphroaig, which might by why I am a wee bit slow today...

A new TV drama is coming about the tragic Queen Ena, if you need a "Crown" fix

A ranking about the best Girl Scout Cookies (I am a Thin Mint girly myself, but would never say no to a Tagalong or Samoa...)

Dame Joan Plowright died (Enchanted April is one of my very favorite movies, and if you haven't seen "Tea With the Dames" go and watch it right this moment!)

LA Animal organizations that could use your help right now

And more ways to help

An exhibit of Sargent portraits of the "Dolla Princesses"  (I'm very interetested in this as I dive into a Gilded Age book...)

Portrait Friday

John Singer Sargent, Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer (I love that red dress!)