Days come and days go…
1885
Kate Greenaway was the superstar of Victorian children's books, famous for freezing childhood in a bubble of pastoral perfection. Here, a tall woman in a flowing green Regency dress holds the hand of a toddler in blue, standing in profile above a surprisingly gloomy poem about time flying by. Greenaway's nostalgic style was so influential that mothers in the 1880s actually dressed their real children in the old-fashioned bonnets and frocks she popularized, creating a real-life fashion trend based on her drawings.
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