i just love eliza a lot and it's silly but also thought of the trend for upper class ladies to have redingotes made up to match their beau's uniforms and i MNJHGTFRD
i'm positive she'd have participated in that trend
i was left home alone and i rewatched The SHow and now i've gone and given away the embarrassing secret because i can't STOP THINKING ABOUT HOW THEY MET AND HOW THEIR ROMANCE STARTED 😭
apparently Eliza was noticeably short and thin, to a point that her critics went out of their way to joke about how her husband, who consulted her opinion on most matters, "lived under petticoat rule despite her delicate stature"
the only reason i'm okay posting this is because i know that i'm a shit enough artist and that no one else around here has actually watched the show, so no one will recognize eliza's husband or the specific costume he's wearing 😌💖
more IRL eliza facts!
apparently she liked to hike mountains and waterfalls while in the colonies with her husband
also was SUPER mad she never encountered a rattlesnake while doing so because everyone told her to fear and watch out for them
i wasn't joking when i said the IRL Eliza thought fires were pretty and fun
i'd show the excerpts from her diaries but that'd give away who the historical figure actually is and i can't do that because i'm cringe and embarrassing lol
there's only one small sketch portrait of the real life eliza that's from her lifetime, so i thought it might be nice to add a dress to fictional eliza's wardrobe paying homage to it 😩
it's not historically accurate for her to be fencing like this but it's also not accurate that her husband was born in india or that he was crazy and ruthless until he almost died and finally mellowed out so
discovered tonight that historically she preferred to go by the name Eliza and also liked to light things on fire as entertainment, so needless to say i love her even more
everything about this character will be cringy self indulgence and i think i'm okay with that except for the part of actually giving any actual information about her
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