AUDREY MUNSON as THE SETTING SUN

From Sunset Magazine Cover in 1915

Audrey's looks were considered Classic and so, as a model,

she often embodied mythological characters

from the pantheons of the Romans or Greeks.

This image, found in Google Images, is the cover of Sunset, The Pacific Monthly magazine, for October 1915.  The sculpture called The Setting Sun, which was photographed for the covert,

was made by Adolph Alexander Weinman for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

 

LAROSA HABANA CUBA

BRITISH LIBRARY on FANNY MURRAY BROADSIDES

BRITISH LIBRARY : UNTOLD LIVES : FANNY MURRAY PAGE  check it out!

Genteel and innocent...

As the "Careless Maid" showing off her legs.

The English must have been proud of her figure, for the text from the 18th century says that the French women wear clothes invented to hide their figures and no so the English.

NATALIE WITH FLOWING HAIR - A PORTRAIT BY ALICE PIKE BARNEY OF HER DAUGHTER

Mentioned in the book Wild Heart, I was elated to find the portrait her mother did of Natalie available on the Internet.  The link below will take you to other works by artist Alice Pike Barney.

Alice Pike Barney, Natalie with Flowing Hair, 1900, pencil and pastel on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1951.

AMERICAN ART - SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL

 

ORANGE IS FOR PASSION - WHITE IS FOR RELIGION

Reading about flower language in Italy, 

Orange Lillys are for Passion and White Lillys are for Religion.

Perhaps this bouquet is symbolic of Tullia's parents.

 

KONA SURFER

 

LUXURY

 

FEMININITY

 

DELICATE

 

PEACE DOVE

THE BIRD IN A CAGE

LOLA MONTEZ - A RAVEN HAIRED BLUE EYED BEAUTY

FALLING

SNOWFLAKE

STRONGEST MAN ON EARTH

Louis Cyr, strongest man on earth, 1898

MAE WEST loved the ultra masculinity of weight lifters

from her early womanhood when she was just

starting out as an entertainer, one who emphasized

the differences between men and women.

RUINS OF ROME

MOSCOW RUSSIA VINTAGE TRAVEL POSTER

HONG KONG BOAC and A MESSAGE FROM MISSY ON COMMENTS

 Missy here! 

I was just looking through COMMENTS today and found some Spam as well as a few very nice posts that I could not post because they contained personal information such as e-mail addresses.  Generally, I may post a good comment that appears under a related post that has a link to your own Noncommercial Blog or Website, but if you put an e-mail address I won't.  I have no way of knowing for sure that you're the actual owner of that e-mail but even if you are, it doesn't seem safe or smart to. To expose an e-mail like that is a great way for you to be badly spammed yourself.

I heard from one of the authors of a book I posted who thanked me but also wanted my review to be used on Amazon. Thanks for the compliment but Amazon ownership is incredibly wealthy. In fact Jeff B. is one of the richest men in the world. And I'm not at all.  Why should my hard work at  buying or borrowing books, reading, writing a review, and posting, be used or owned by anyone but me? If you want to link from  your official author blog to my review, that's respectful. Sometimes I spend many hours on my subject. So no I am not giving my Copyright over to one of the riches men in the world. And don't you either!

Which brings up the fact that though I do all that work, the profiles of Kept Men and Women and other topics here at MISTRESS MANIFESTO are not biographies.  I'm always open to your comments, including if you politely disagree with me, but please also provide some references, such as the name of the book or a link to an article that defies the stance I've decided to take.  I can't read them all but I just might.  Also, sometimes I will use more than one book and post and review the other book(s) later in the month.

I try to post images that are OK to use for NONPROFIT BLOGS and WEB SITES, some in the Public Domain, some not.  If you copy an image I have searched for and used here and are making bucks using it or making bucks on the site where you used it, let me remind you that's not the usual Copyright or Fair Use agreement and You may end up in trouble!

Finally, though I don't write for hits, I do look at stats and I do hope that those of you who are attracted to this site looking for the most scandalous stories will read more and come to understand that for every one mistress who was considered scandalous and so had a book or books written about her, or who wrote her own memoir, there were probably at least a thousand others who continued to live private lives.  The purpose of this blog is not to out people so much as to come to understand that there was no one way for a women (or man) to become or be a Mistresses (or Kept).  So, do me a favor and go further with your reading  about Dawn Shiller, and Faith Domergue to women like our Honorary Mistress of May 2017, Lindsay Mills, to Isadora Duncan or Georgia O'Keefe. Take a look in PAGES where I've been keeping a list of all the topics!  I guarantee your understanding will deepen, even your feminism may deepen, as has mine!  Missy

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