kellyfaircloth
Kelly Faircloth
kellyfaircloth
Senior Editor at Jezebel, specializing in books, royals, romance novels, houses, history, and the stories we tell about domesticity and femininity. Resident Windsor expert.

it just occurred to me that I accidentally killed June Lockhart in an act of parallelism gone amuck; it has been corrected and we regret the error. Read more

One of my best antique-store finds was some very old, very explicit polaroids. Read more

i mean technically it should be called the 12 Days Closest to Christmas When People Are Actually Reading the Internet, but that was getting a little long. Read more

I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about Comcast but that’s the worst one yet. Read more

I wish I could’ve found a high-res photo of the bottom of the dress—it’s smooth satin but with a lot of sequin/appliqué detailing but tasteful but also not? Honestly, it’s jaw-dropping. Read more

I read that passage and I just imagine Jane Austen walking through a modern bookstore making fart noises at many of the Very Serious Books by Very Serious Men, in a wide variety of genres. Read more

Call if a phoenix all you want but that’s a goddamn dragon, and I’ve got the huge stack of Weis and Hickman books in my childhood bedroom to testify to my authority in this matter. Read more

She keeps it real, though — I fully believe her Victorians exist in the same universe as rampant water treatment problems. Read more

aw shit yall we got a trekkie ready to start some shit in here Read more

One of my oldest female friendships is rooted in middle school mutual Star Wars fandom! Read more

Having done some more digging it looks like they originally published a version of this booklet in ‘66, which explains a lot about the pictures, and my version was I guess an updated edition. Which is my bad! Should have dug a little more. Either way, I feel a profound sense of malaise by association. Read more

You know I thought the same thing! But sure enough 1979 was the copyright date on the pamphlet. Maybe they were just too cheap to do new photos to match updated copy? Read more

I should specify that when I say “upholding the Lost Cause” I mean upholding Lost Cause mythology, btw. Read more