Adrienne Munich

Professor emerita at Stony Brook University, writes about Victorian culture, especially diamonds. Author of Empire of Diamonds (May 2020)

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Ad for mined rather than manufactured diamonds. For more, see My book Empire of Diamonds. @uvapress

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Pandora, the world’s largest jeweler by volume will no longer use mined diamond but only manufactured ones. See Empire of Diamonds for backstories @uvapress

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Diamonds associated with possessive love. #EmpireofDiamonds @uvapress tells us how we got to diamond and Valentine’s Day.

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this ring means more than betrothal also a business union: see ⁦@uvapress⁩ @empireofdiamonds

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To recognize their “inherent value” therapist tells them they are a #diamond that everyone can’t afford. Do I regard myself as hardest thing in the world? Overpriced? Forever? Read #empireofdiamonds for more. @uvapress @AdrienneMunich

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Huge pink Indian #diamond, the Princie, in the news due to family question about who inherits it. Read about such conflicts about an Indian diamond necklace in #empireofdiamonds in the novel , The Eustace Diamonds. @uvapress More than money (40 million) always involved.

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Large #Diamonds back on page 3 ads in the NYT. #EmpireofDiamonds offers ways to link Diamonds, disease, death, love @AdrienneMunich @uvapress

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Today is first day during covid-19 that the New York Times only featured a few teeny diamonds on p. 3. Not surprising to readers of #EmpireofDiamonds. @AdrienneMunich @uvapress

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Max reading #EmpireofDiamonds. “Grown-up books have a lot of words. @uvapress book is dedicated to him

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Catalog spread for my forthcoming book #EmpireofDiamonds June 2020 @uvapress

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The Dresden Green now shown at a #Met exhibit. Often displayed near the blue Hope most famous American #diamond. #empireofdiamonds for more on the Hope. Coming in May! @uvapress

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diamonds still flutter hearts and $$$ This one covered in carbon. #EmpireofDiamonds @uvapress https://t.co/ZrW9zPpNDg

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The @courtjeweller profiles #QueenElizabeth's choice of #jewels (in this case Prince Albert's brooch) for her annual #Christmas message: https://t.co/4bvneQN48w. More about #diamonds in 19th-cent Britain in EMPIRE OF DIAMONDS by @AdrienneMunich: https://t.co/G6hfdQiIT3 #victorian

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Happy announcement: My forthcoming "Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings" on Victoria's 201 Birthday, May 24, 2020 @uvapress #empireofdiamonds