Women Of The Old East End
September 9, 2022
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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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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
What a remarkable set of portraits
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.