Six Victorian Ladies of 1885

from the collections of Roger Vaughan

These six prints were produced for the Supplement to This Week's Life in 1885. Two are reproduced from photographs and the others from sketches.

Apart from being superb images they have the advantage of being dated and so give an indication of how the fashionable lady dressed in the summer and Autumn of 1885

July 2nd 1885
Mrs Edward Lycett Green (nee Wilson)
(Ste. Gen. le des Applications Photographiques, Phototype. 7 Rue d'Argenteuil, Paris.)
[ A libel action was brought by Sir William Gordon-Cumming (1890) against Mr and Mrs Lycett Green and others for slander, for charging him with cheating in the game of baccarat (in this case the prince of Wales, afterwards Edward VII., gave evidence) -- possibly this lady ]

August 13th 1885
Mrs Percy Bernard Hall (from a sketch)

August 27th 1885
The Hon. Mrs Keppel (from a sketch)
[ I assume this is The Hon. Mrs George Keppel whos name is linked to the Prince of Wales, H.R.H, later King Edward VII. ]

September 3rd 1885
Lady Sophie Allenby (from a sketch)


October 1st 1885
Lady de Clifford
(Ste. Gen. le des Applications Photographiques, Phototype. 7 Rue d'Argenteuil, Paris.)


October 8th 1885
Viscountess Torrington (from a sketch)
[ Emmeline St. Maur, daughter of Rev. Henry Seymour, rector of Holme Pierrepont, co. Nottingham, (a descendant of the 8th Duke of Somerset). She was the second wife of George Stanley, 8th Viscount, a Lieut.-col. of the rifle brigade (Indian medal and clasp). They married on the 3rd February 1885, she had a child George-Master (born Sept. 10th 1886) who became the next Viscount when her husband died in October 1889.]




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