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Women Of The Old East End

September 9, 2022
by the gentle author

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I have selected these portraits of magnificent women from Philip Mernick‘s fine collection of cartes de visite by nineteenth century East End photographers, arranged chronologically to show the evolving styles of dress and changing roles of female existence

1863

1863

1867

1860s

c. 1870

c.1870

c. 1870

1870s

1880

1880s

1880s

1884

1884

1886

1880s

1880s

1880s

1890s

c. 1890

1890s

1890s

c. 1900

c. 1910

c. 1910  Theatrical performer by William Whiffin

c. 1940 Driver

Photographs reproduced courtesy of Philip Mernick

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  1. September 9, 2022

    Interesting photos about the changing role of women in the Victorian period. Her Majesty QUEEN ELIZABETH II certainly made a similarly important impact in her era.

    QUEEN ELIZABETH II (1926-2022) — I had the pleasure of meeting her three times in Braemar at the Highland Games. May She Rest In Peace.

    LONG LIVE KING CHARLES III !

    Love & Peace
    ACHIM

  2. September 9, 2022

    What a remarkable set of portraits

  3. September 9, 2022

    Quite a mix, from the slightly fey to the extremely formidable. Hurrah for the late Victorian and Edwardian women, who wanted a quality photograph. What would they wouid make of their Twenty – First Century sisters snapping each other with phones and posting on social media? Not much I imagine. Far too undignified.

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