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 seems so strange to me there isn’t some sort of book-length treatment of the big bonkbuster era, considering how much it foreshadowed our current cultural moment  Read more

I too have fond memories of stumbling into the Hard Rock Cafe in Rome!! My roommate and I got lost looking for a restaurant on a trip in college, wandered around for like 45 minutes before finally coming upon the Hard Rock and looking at each other and saying “Yup.”  Read more

that’s a costa cup, i would bet at least one of my royal wedding souvenirs on it  Read more

a friend who shall remain nameless said it’s like the ONLY period drama she’s ever tapped out of and it was because she just couldn’t deal with the anachronistic hair Read more

Greetings in advance to the Fixer Upper fans who do not usually read Jezebel.com! Let me save you some time: Do not bother emailing me about my potty mouth because I have no intention of cleaning it up.  Read more

And that’s even under normal conditions! I thought about going to a breastfeeding support meeting in a nearby neighborhood shortly after my kid was born in icy winter conditions and just turned around and went back in my house because I absolutely the fuck was not doing subway stairs when it was icy/slushy.  Read more

This is exactly why — I looked through our image databases pretty extensively, but the best I could do was an image commemorating Title IX, which seemed to me to at least get at the impact of her work. Trust me, I really wish an image had been available, but we are at the mercy of subscription decisions that are made Read more

to be fair she probably stole it from another cookbook writer!  Read more

ask for an extra can of the numbing spray at the hospital, the numbing spray is the GOOD SHIT Read more

the Elf Knight stories are, to me, some of the most fascinating in folklore! (tam lin hive here)  Read more