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BEER, THOMAS Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Cover edge wear, cover edges slightly faded, pages toned, front hinge loosening. "The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade," because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "gay" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no connotation of homosexuality as in present-day usage. The phrase, "The Gay Nineties," was not coined until 1926." -- Wikipedia. The Titaness; Wasted Land; Depravity; Dear Harp; The Unholy Host; The American Magazines; Figures of Earth; Appendix.
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