#Victorian | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

stjohnstarling · 21 hours

Text

WHAT MANNER OF MAN has risen from the grave! 🦇

❧ Get weekly letters from Catholic priest and beautiful idiot Father Ardelian as he slowly succumbs to the vampire’s wicked allure.

❧ (And maybe comes to term with some things about himself along the way.)

❧ A tale of blasphemy, scandal, and sin!

❧ (Also presenting: swashbuckling lesbians with swords!)

SIGN UP HERE (for free!)

#dracula daily #Dark academia #books and libraries #vampire #writers on tumblr #goth #writeblr #books #vampires #victorian #gothic #dracula #dark academia aesthetic #literature #original post #what manner of man

429 notes · View notes

marzipanandminutiae · 13 hours

Text

many people know about the 1950s doctor who was obsessed with lobotomies (Dr. Walter Freeman)

fewer people know about the 1860s doctor who was obsessed with clitoridectomies, Isaac Baker Brown

he claimed the operation could cure pretty much all forms of mental illness in women- and then-undesirable behaviors that weren't mental illness at all, like masturbation. it's not known how many women and girls he mutilated, but some were teenagers on whom the procedure was performed without their (or their parents') knowledge or consent

Baker Brown cited a text by Hippocrates as support for this practice- a text which in fact concerned surgical removal of genital warts

he was kicked out of the Obstetrical Society of London in 1867 because of his lax approach to consent, but clitoridectomies remained in sporadic use as a mental health treatment in the US and UK until the mid-20th century. thank heaven they don't seem to have ever been commonplace exactly, but...one person subjected to this is one too many

(note: I use language exclusively referring to women here because, as far as we know, his victims were all what we'd now call cis women and girls. obviously not everyone with a clitoris is a woman, and not every woman has a clitoris)

#history #victorian #medical history #fgm #csa mention #misogyny #surgery

94 notes · View notes

witchrealms · 2 days

Text

(x)

#u #web finds #photography #places #architecture #victorian #flickr #gothic

105 notes · View notes

leannareneehieber · 2 days

Text

GOTHIC & DARK ACADEMIA ENTHUSIASTS!

DARLINGS! Just noticed the double-volume revised edition of STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL via @torbooks is on super-eBook-sale right now. 684 pages! For only $3.99! Via Kindle, Kobo & Apple Books! Includes THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER and THE DARKLY LUMINOUS FIGHT FOR PERSEPHONE PARKER + extra scenes & content.

This book of my heart is: GOTHIC. It's Jane-Eyre-Meets-Dark-Academia+Hot-For-Teacher+GHOSTS+Greek-Mythology+Jack-the-Ripper+Found-Family

YES, there is a paperback omnibus edition, available via Bookshop.org (my favorite link to send folks to, it supports local bookstores!), B&N and any physical store can order it in. It's on sale too!

Please share? Thank you!

Kindle - Kobo - Apple Books