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Featuring... Hilma Af Klint · The Marchesa Casati · Absinthe · Le Chat Noir · Creative Conversations · Sensible Nonsense and lots more!

La Belle Époque Edition

FOR CURIOUS HISTORY & MARVELLOUS HUMANS

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When The Viridian Tea Company  offered to create a blend of tea especially for The Dilettante, how could we say no? We spoke to founder Kimberly Richardson to discover the inspirations and ingredients that go into a good brew.

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It is with great pleasure that The Dilettante presents the whimsical, witty and wise Professor Elemental as our resident Agony Uncle. Here we present some of his sage advice to readers, featured in issue one of the magazine...

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Virago is a deliciously potent word. Beautifully sharp and seeped in meaning, it’s etymology reveals how women’s history has been shaped and skewed by language. But where did the virago come from, and why is it no longer part of our common tongue?

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dil-et-tante

An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

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LUMBLEMARK

A note or scribble found in one's own handwriting, the reason or meaning of which you cannot possibly remember.

"He knew he had made the lumblemark, but he certainly couldn't understand the damned thing."

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