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# Victoria Dailey

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- [Home](http://victoriadailey.com/) - Writer, curator & lecturer whose topics include the cultural history of Southern California; Paris in the 19th century; antiquarian books; and contemporary art.
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- [Varia](http://victoriadailey.com/varia/) - MODELLING At Home with Victoria Dailey, Editorial Magazine, March 11, 2019 LECTURES Dear Little Tornado: Galka Scheyer in Hollywood Norton Simon Museum, May 13, 2017, in conjunction with the exhibition Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California Watch the lecture BUMPER STICKERS
- [About](http://victoriadailey.com/about/) - Victoria Dailey is a writer, curator and lecturer whose many topics include the cultural history of Southern California; Paris in the 19th century; antiquarian books; and contemporary art. She is also the Deputy Editor of The Book Collector, the British literary journal founded by Ian Fleming in 1952. She lives in Los Angeles. victoria@victoriadailey.com
- [Books](http://victoriadailey.com/books/)
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- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/the-pazifische-presse-and-german-exile-publishing-in-los-angeles-1942-1948/) - The Pazifische Presse And German Exile Publishing In Los Angeles 1942-1948 By Victoria Dailey Thomas Mann in Pacific Palisades? While Magic Mountain is certainly a popular Los Angeles theme park, could the celebrated German author of The Magic Mountain actually have lived in Los Angeles? Most people would say “certainly not.” But it is true.
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/the-lady-was-twenty-one/) - The Lady Was Twenty-One: The Press of the Pegacycle Lady by Victoria Dailey [The following is adapted from a short lecture given by the author at the Beverly Hills Public Library on the subject "Booksellers as Publishers.”] The Press of the Pegacycle Lady. The What? The Pegacycle Lady. I am often asked: What does it
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/los-angeles-in-tune/) - Los Angeles In Tune By Victoria Dailey Before L. A. played itself in the movies, it was played as music when dozens of songs were written to praise and promote it during the period 1875-1955. Not only was Los Angeles advertised in brochures, postcards, posters, chinaware, spoons, citrus labels, buttons and books, it was promoted
- [Article](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/getting-wet/) - GETTING WET By Victoria Dailey Study water; learn from water. Water isn’t afraid to change from a liquid to a gas, back to a liquid, to a solid, etc. The outward appearance of water changes but the fundamental essence of the substance remains the same. Hmm… I think there’s a lesson here.” -Leonard Koren, Wet,
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/from-ramona-to-gidget/) - From Ramona To Gidget: Southern California Travel Posters 1896-1965 by Victoria Dailey Preface California has never been at a loss for heroines. Her very name is said to have derived from a woman–the mythical Queen Califia –and over three centuries later, when California entered the Union in 1850, Minerva, the warrior goddess of wisdom, poetry
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/l-a-now-and-then-or-south-by-north-west/) - L.A. Now And Then, Or South By North West By Victoria Dailey Los Angeles, Angel City is a paradoxical town–is Angeltown heaven, as her name would suggest, or, as some would claim, is the City of Angels just the opposite, a wasteland, a purgatory? Orson Welles called Los Angeles a “bright, guilty place.” Major Ben
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/a-ladies-dozen-and-a-gentleman-early-california-childrens-books-1853-1913/) - A Ladies’ Dozen And A Gentleman: Early California Children’s Books 1853-1913 By Victoria Dailey Books for children flowered during the 19th century, when Victorian society began to encourage the education and imagination of its youngest members. (I am using the word “children” to refer to youngsters up to the age of twelve.) Of course, children’s
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/fruits-flowers-floats-los-angeles-festivals-of-the-1890s/) - Fruits, Flowers & Floats: Los Angeles Festivals Of The 1890s By Victoria Dailey Before Hollywood, and Disneyland; before skyscrapers and strip malls; before clogged freeways and air pollution, Los Angeles was a city unlike any other in the country. Festooned with flowers the year round and with orange groves and vineyards in the middle of
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/californias-first-international-exposition-the-midwinter-fair-of-1894/) - California’s First International Exposition: The Midwinter Fair of 1894 by Victoria Dailey The California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 was the state’s first international event and as such, was a landmark in her history. Purposely held in winter, it showcased the glorious climate of the Golden State and followed on the heels of the vastly
- [Articles](http://victoriadailey.com/articles/rabbits-and-rum/) - Rabbits and Rum by Victoria Dailey Most books with California themes fall into familiar of categories. Exploration, travel and history are notable for such classics as Manly’s Death Valley in ’49 and Horace Bell’s Reminiscences of a Ranger. California fiction includes some of the most well known books about the region—Ramona, McTeague and The Day