benaltrecose:

Miss Elaine Inescourt, actress born in London, studied for grand opera, as an actress first appearance 1899, and on the London stage 1903, toured America, South Africa and Australia.

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edwardianera:

Several Pretty And Characteristic Ways Of Dressing The Hair, 1908

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fevrale-dostat-chernil-i-plakat:

Portrait of Martha Bibescu (1911) by Giovanni Boldini.

 You are not only a splendid writer, Princess, but a sculptor of words, a musician, a purveyor of scents, a poet.” Marcel Proust in a letter to Martha Bibescu