A delicious question, from an LJ community I recently joined called refinement (for Dandies, Aesthetes, Flaneurs, & Faux Aristocrats):

What is the female equivalent of a dandy?

[I found this group when looking for others who listed Swinburne and Rossetti in their interests. When I saw it, I thought, Dude, I am so there. Although I must remember to phrase ( Read more... )

OK, so the haiku program just draws things from recent posts... still, this was reasonably coherent. You can even get poetic mileage out of the double meaning of 'icon' - which Janey certainly was.

Happy Spring to all!


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I adore my background wallpaper. William Morris utterly rules, in so many ways. For those who don't know, the icon at left is his wife, famous Pre-Raphaelite model Jane Burden Morris. Seemed appropriate to have an icon of her as a counterpart to Boy's icons of Morris. Only I rather suspect our relationship is better than theirs was...