This is the proper way to pluralize the ampersand.  From Shakespeare: A Revelation: A Novel by Henry Lumley, 1899.

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This is the proper way to pluralize the ampersand.  From Shakespeare: A Revelation: A Novel by Henry Lumley, 1899.  Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction.

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Tales of Terror. Dick Donovan. London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. First edition. Original pictorial burgundy cloth.

Donovan’s horror fiction ranged from the classic Jamesian ghostly tale such as The Spectre of Rislip Abbey to the Germanic gothic and extravagant tales in the raw heads and bloody bones tradition such as The Cave of Blood and The Mystic Spell.

"Dick Donovan was a pseudonym of James Edward Preston Muddock – though he was better known as Joyce Emerson Preston Muddock. A well-travelled journalist, he wrote prolifically in a number of genres. The vast majority of his output were sensational detective stories in which “Dick Donovan” was the main character. So popular did this Glaswegian detective prove that Muddock issued later works under this pseudonym. Other works include the horror novel, The Shadow Hunter (1887), the ‘lost world’ novel The Sunless City (1905) and two volumes of supernatural tales." From https://gothictexts.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/tales-of-terror-1899-by-dick-donovan/

Evening Post: August 12, 1899. “She immediately alighted, caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him a sound thrashing, using her fists in a scientific fashion…” I would love to know what this means.

I think that might be code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”.

it is absolutely code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”

As is the case with boxing, it most likely means that she was precise and methodical. So, yes. She punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy.

“to the delight of several colliers who were passing” just imagining these coal miner bros standing around all WHOO YOU GO GURL

I GOT UR HUGE FLOWER HAT BB KICK HIS ASS

It’s really hard to choose a favorite part of this story.

Isn’t this from Illustrated Police News, July 1899? (See https://cyclehistory.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/thrashed-by-a-lady-cyclist/)

He could count himself lucky she only used her fists:

Evening Post: August 12, 1899. “She immediately alighted, caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him a sound thrashing, using her fists in a scientific fashion…” I would love to know what this means.

I think that might be code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”.

it is absolutely code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”

As is the case with boxing, it most likely means that she was precise and methodical. So, yes. She punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy.

“to the delight of several colliers who were passing” just imagining these coal miner bros standing around all WHOO YOU GO GURL

I GOT UR HUGE FLOWER HAT BB KICK HIS ASS

It’s really hard to choose a favorite part of this story.

Isn't this from Illustrated Police News, July 1899? (See https://cyclehistory.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/thrashed-by-a-lady-cyclist/)

Image from ‘Bohemian Paris of to-day. Written … from notes by E. Cucuel. Illustrated by E. Cucuel’, 002557729

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Innocence by Arthur Hacker, ca. 1899

The Signal by John William Godward

Though painted in 1899, this scene is meant to suggest antiquity. 

Yet, the theme is timeless: waiting to hear from a loved one. This moment is both still and full of tension; a moment of isolation, uncertainty, and hope.

Vercingetorix Throws Down his Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar (1899) by Lionel Royer. 

caelidra

I am obligated to send you Vercingetorix every time he crosses my dash.

Look at that mustache, flowing elegantly in the wind. Glorious.

Clarence Hudson White - Evening Interior (1899)

1899 Cocorico magazine No. 4 © Alphonse Mucha Estate-Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York-ADAGP, Paris

Interior of Saint Mark's Church, Philadelphia, 1899.

(Taken from the excellent blog Philadelphia Studies, chronicling the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in the 19th and 20th centuries.)

Calender sheets for April depicting Saint George by Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban. Published 1899 as part of an Austrian calendar.

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Emile Friant, Voyage to Infinity 1899

Voyage à l’infini

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant (1899), oil on canvas, 213.7 x 292.1 cm. Via nevsepic.com.ua.

May the New Year do better! Satirical illustration by J S Pughe in Puck vol 44, no. 1139, 4 Jan 1899. 

Source: Library of Congress

Frontispiece: “The destruction of the aeropile.” Art by H. Lanos for “When the Sleeper Wakes” by H. G. Wells (1899) http://flic.kr/p/qh3bwK

1899: A Dainty Breakfast Jacket

~From The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), December 10, 1899

Dainty Breakfast Jacket