• Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi
• Queen Marie Antoinette of France
• King Ludwig II of Bavaria
• Emperor Gaius Iulius Caesar Augustus
• Emperor Napoléon 1er of France
• Zelda Fitzgerald
• Stephen Tennant
• Cecil Beaton
• Oscar Wilde

• Museum curator
• Historical advisor
• Librarian
• Bookshop owner
• Interior designer
• Historical costume and set designer
• Fake autobiographer
• Owner of the Diogenes club
• Decadent poet (dying in a Parisian back alley optional)
• Pre-raphaelite artist
• Muse (to any of the two above)
• Incorrupt saint

• Alma-Tadema, Lawrence
• Botticelli, Sandro
• Barbier, George
• Beardsley, Aubrey
• Burne-Jones, Edward
• Dardel, Nils
• David, Jacques-Louis
• Dongen, Kees van
• Delaroche, Paul
• Dicksee, Frank
• de Feure, Georges
• Friedrich, Caspar David
• Green, Elizabeth Shippen
• Grimshaw, John Atkinson
• Hughes, Arthur
• King, Jessie M.
• Laurencin, Marie
• de Lempicka, Tamara
• Moreau, Gustave
• de Morgan, Evelyn
• Mossa, Gustav Adolf

• Neoclassicism
• Pre-Raphaelite
• Photo-Secession
• Symbolism
• Arts and Crafts
• Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/Sezessionstil

• Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
• Dead Poets Society
• Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
• Billy Elliot
• Maurice

• Go on a sketching holiday.
• Go backpacking in Tirol.
• Paint.
• Write something. A novel, a play, poetry. Anything.
• Take acting classes.
• Take dancing classes (tap, swing, ballet...)
• Learn a fourth language (French, Italian, Russian...)

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• "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton
• "Besides, I hate a room without an open suitcase in it – it seems so permanent." - Zelda Fitzgerald
• "Life without beauty would be worthless to me." - Empress Elisabeth of Austria
• "It is essential to create such paradises, such poetical sanctuaries where one can forget for a while the dreadful age in which we live" - King Ludwig II
• "In these days of great trouble and unrest, it is good to have something outside our own planet, something fine and distant and comforting to troubled minds. Let people look to the stars for comfort." - Annie Jump Cannon

{places I've visited are in bold }

• Austria
  • Bad Ischl
  • Bregenz
  • Feldkirch
  • Innsbruck
  • Salzburg
  • Vienna *
• France
  • Brittany
  • Normandy
  • Paris *
  • Verdun
• Germany
  • Berlin
  • Lindau
  • Munich
  • Neuschwanstein

F:

• Apollonia
• Athalie
• Beatrix
• Bernice
• Calista
• Camilla
• Cecily
• Demeter
• Diana
• Edith
• Flavia
• Guinevere
• Gwendolyn
• Lavinia
• Manon
• Marjorie
• Minerva
• Morgana
• Myfanwy
• Octavia

• MNAC
• Museu del Modernisme
• Casa Lleó i Morera

• Victoriana
• Velvet
• Accessory/jewellery mix and match
• Platform shoes (still A Thing)
• Menswear inspiration (no fall season goes by without it tbh)
• Small, crossbody bags
• Capes
• Biker chic

• “Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains" - Madame Bovary , Gustave Flaubert
• "There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility— big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend..." - Maurice , E. M. Forster
• "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." - The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired." - The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way. "Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." - The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "I’m not sure what I’ll do, but—wel..._The Ice Palace_ , F. Scott Fitzgerald

{in no order of preference}

• Agatha Runcible, Vile Bodies
• Alabama Beggs Knight, Save Me the Waltz
• Maurice Hall, Maurice
• Lucy Honeychurch, A Room with a View
• Dido, The Aeneid
• Lord Sebastian Flyte, Brideshead Revisited
• Hamlet, Hamlet
• Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary
• Sherlock Holmes, ACD canon
• Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
• Tatiana Larina, Eugene Onegin
• Rosaura, La vida es sueño
• Amory Blaine, This Side of Paradise
• Just about everyone in The Great Gatsby
• Especially Jordan Baker

• Anna Karenina , Fyodor Dostoievski
• Les Misérables , Victor Hugo
• Love in a Cold Climate , Nancy Mitford
• Vanity Fair , William Makepeace Thackeray
• Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

to watch

• Mr Selfridge
• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
• Agent Carter
• Upstairs Downstairs

favourites

• Downton Abbey
• Penny Dreadful
• Doctor Who
• The Crimson Field

• Belle
• The Russian Ark
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• An Education
• Kill Your Darlings
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Bright Star
• Coco Avant Chanel