Victorian writing

I warned you a few days ago that I'm a slow learner, and all the troubles I had with my bakery sign didn't teach me my lesson not to choose elaborate fonts to cut out on vinyl with my Silhouette machine. I truly expected this project to be a failure and probably be a total waste of time, but I felt compelled to try it anyway. Here's why. I bought an adorable 1895 school primer. It is filled with some

This posting explores how to write a Victorian birthday letter, including the consciousness of young writers of formal conventions. A funny birthday poem by Herbert Gladstone and the serious letters by Mary Gladstone express universal feelings while also revealing past belief systems, such

Everything from paper to the date and the ink was scrutinized back then.

Brenda Arledge has given Hubpage authors a 24th prompt, which is “letter”. There is an acrostic poem and a poem that bemoans the fact that many children are no longer learning to write in cursive.

This post shows how to write a Victorian birthday letter, using examples written by Mary Gladstone to her father in 1857 and 1858. T he birthday letter formula is most evident in children's letters, which strongly suggests that norms for writing birthday letters

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Copperplate, (called Écriture Anglaise (English Roundhand) or simply Anglaise by the French, and probably the Spanish and Italians), this was the main writing style of the British (and the French as far as I can tell) during the Victorian period. In America, Spencerian script derives from this in the early 1800s. This is page 194 of The Universal Penman, first published c. 1740–1741. An example of George Bickham's English roundhand lettering and engraving skills.

Captain Wentworth's Letter