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[pandaemonaeum]

Some quick images from Laura's camera of Sunday's shoot



First off, the 'Estella' green dress




Secondly, the 'Augusta' Regency style dress


I've tried to keep them quite affordable. Cross posted to foreverinblack

Edited to add: Literary references for the names, btw. Estella is named after Estella Havisham, Miss Havisham's ward in 'Great Expectations'. Estella is raised by Miss Havisham as her weapon against men, as she is unable to love and breaks men's hearts. I understand this is a common reference now and even turned up in 'Southpark' at one point! Estella is the epitome of cool, calculating women. In the novel, she drives Pip to the brink of madness, and still rejects him in the end anyway, as she cannot love him. I love 'Great Expectations' as it doesn't have a happy ending and everything neatly tied up, more like real life than some Victorian novels.

Augusta is Lord Byron's (George Gordon, Lord Byron, poet, author, 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' *swoons*) half-sister. She was famously rumoured to be having an affair with him, and two of her children may or may not have been fathered by him. She gave evidence against him in his divorce. He is rumoured to have kept a mask of her face, which he asked his lovers to wear...

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[lady-lillith79.livejournal.com]

i that i regonised the name augusta

[littlepinkfaery.livejournal.com]

ooh Estella, queen bitch "he has the hands of a common labouring boy" ooh nasty lady! but used by a bitter old woman!

you might like this poem, by Carol Anne Duffy

HAVISHAM

Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then
I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it
so hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes,
ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.

Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days
in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress
yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;
the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this

to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words.
Some nights better, the lost body over me,
my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear
then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love’s

hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting
in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake.
Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon.
Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

I really like that :) I like Estella, she's a complex character who isn't looking to be 'completed' by a man. She's perplexed by Pip's devotion, and refuses him because she can't love him as much as he loves her. If only modern literary characters were as complex as Estella, I would read a lot more modern literature! I like 'Great Expectations' better than 'Wuthering Heights', 'Jane Eyre' and 'Pride and Prejudice' :D