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Places: Sissi and Fanny’s Corfu
Following our glimpse of Böcklin’s inspiration off the coast of Corfu, a short jaunt inland brings us to former haunts of two of our favourite headstrong dames. Achilleion Empress Elisabeth of Austria...
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18 books for 2018
Before too much of the new year elapses, I wanted to share news of some titles appearing in the rest of 2018 that stray into Strange Flowers’ beat of wayward cultural history. Hopefully you can find...
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Places: Hermesvilla
We’re in Vienna! Well, just outside. We’ll be back soon for a more expansive look at the Austrian capital and its rich heritage of neurosis and peculiarity, but for now Partner and self find ourselves...
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Strange Flowers guide to Vienna, part 2
Part one here. Cultural history aside, Vienna is most likely to enter your consciousness these days when it tops yet another quality-of-living survey. And while yes, those lists seem to be oriented...
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Secret Satan, 2022
Here in Berlin the first snows have been and gone, the first Advent candle is lit and the kitchen smells like Plätzchen. Into this wholesome scene strides a familiar hoofed figure, laden with a sack...
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The bitter tears of Empress Elisabeth
Over the years I have written numerous times about the inexhaustibly fascinating life of Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) – a.k.a. Sis(s)i – and its heady amalgam of eccentricity, disaster, glamour,...
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