"This is the first frock in all of Hampstead to have a triple-pleated mushroom collar"

(Slate) - Rather than ahistorically imagining early-19th-century life as an endless whirl of dances and arch repartee, Campion captures the narrowness of most people's social worlds at that time: Evenings are spent with family around the fire. Keats and Fanny's courtship takes place largely in the presence of others. Continued

Photo: John Keats, by William Hilton (Wikipedia).