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August 31

Hotty from History no.33 James Joyce 1882-1941

  • Jimmy Joyce was a wonderful modern Irish writer. Although not typically handsome, he is included on this list because of his strange enigmatic appeal. He was tall, skinny and very rectangular, and it was only later when he grew a moustache and wore silly glasses that his look became more oddball than Oh my. In this picture he looks very much the good looking genius, and as for his manly pose, I certainly think he could have garnered the odd swoon.
  • Joyce was already very intelligent as a handsome young lad. He rejected his family’s Catholicism at the age of 16, which strikes me as quite a rebellious and precocious thing to do. At the sweet age of 19 he was already making his mark: a review he wrote of Ibsen’s New Drama actually received a note of thanks from the playwright himself. 
  • He grew to be an appalling drunk, frequently getting into scrapes and arguments and spending a lot of money he could not afford to. As we at HFH have mentioned before, this in itself isn’t exactly an asset, but if your a tortured poet with a nice face, then all is forgiven. After all, Joyce’s drunken anguish generally translated into brilliant prose. 
  • Joyce was dreadful with money. This blogger essentially finds this endearing because it is a quality one can empathize with. He set out on various money making endeavours and failed at them all. Poor Joyce. What he really needed was an understanding lover to forgive him his ineptitude. Shame he was more than half a century or so too early. He was eventually able to focus on writing because he had a lady patron. I imagine his talent wasn’t the only reason she wanted to look after him.
  • He wrote books. And well.

-Georgia

May 23
Hotty from History #23- Evelyn Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) When he was at Hertford college, Oxford, Waugh would rarely be seen without a snifter of brandy or a flute of champagne. When asked if he did anything for his college, he replied “I drink.” Followers should be reminded that at the time Waugh was at University, binge drinking was not such a fashion and was reserved for bohemian intellectuals and those from the titillating twenties that put the ‘art’ into party. Before worming his way into the Literary world, Waugh did not make much of a success of himself. He left Oxford without a degree and was fired from a job for seducing the matron. Lucky her.  He tried to remove Salvador Dali’s moustache, thinking it was joke. In the modern day, this is probably equivalent to removing Karl Lagerfeld’s sunglasses. He was fluid with is sexuality, and had a number of relationships with men during his youth. His older brother Alec was actually kicked out of school for publishing a novel, The Loom of Youth (during his school years!), which focused on gay relationships. The Waugh’s are idols for artists everywhere who have discovered their sexuality and struggled to be open about it in the art world, and we admire him for his ability to survive the hideous levels of homophobia that were rife at that time. He had seven children. As we all know, men become about five times hotter when they are holding a baby. Also…seven children? That’s a hell of a lot of loin fruit. Evelyn Waugh’s loins…we salute you.  Waugh’s work was summarised by Time magazine as “a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world.” So yes, Waugh was a big snob, but in the best possible way. It was Waugh that mourned the loss of the cucumber sandwich laid out on willow pattern plates, the hereditary and compulsory British taste for tea and the careful mannerisms which non Brits usually refer to as ‘uptight’ but this blogger believes is simply a reflection of our unique discerning qualities. Thanks to the TV adaptation of his novel, Brideshead Revisited, we all got to see Jeremy Irons involed in homo erotica and being artfully semi naked in various idyllic situations. Waugh’s brilliant literary legacy+Jeremy Irons semi naked= happy hottiesfromhistory bloggers. -Georgia

Hotty from History #23- Evelyn Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966)

  • When he was at Hertford college, Oxford, Waugh would rarely be seen without a snifter of brandy or a flute of champagne. When asked if he did anything for his college, he replied “I drink.” Followers should be reminded that at the time Waugh was at University, binge drinking was not such a fashion and was reserved for bohemian intellectuals and those from the titillating twenties that put the ‘art’ into party.
  • Before worming his way into the Literary world, Waugh did not make much of a success of himself. He left Oxford without a degree and was fired from a job for seducing the matron. Lucky her. 
  • He tried to remove Salvador Dali’s moustache, thinking it was joke. In the modern day, this is probably equivalent to removing Karl Lagerfeld’s sunglasses.
  • He was fluid with is sexuality, and had a number of relationships with men during his youth. His older brother Alec was actually kicked out of school for publishing a novel, The Loom of Youth (during his school years!), which focused on gay relationships. The Waugh’s are idols for artists everywhere who have discovered their sexuality and struggled to be open about it in the art world, and we admire him for his ability to survive the hideous levels of homophobia that were rife at that time.
  • He had seven children. As we all know, men become about five times hotter when they are holding a baby. Also…seven children? That’s a hell of a lot of loin fruit. Evelyn Waugh’s loins…we salute you. 
  • Waugh’s work was summarised by Time magazine as “a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world.” So yes, Waugh was a big snob, but in the best possible way. It was Waugh that mourned the loss of the cucumber sandwich laid out on willow pattern plates, the hereditary and compulsory British taste for tea and the careful mannerisms which non Brits usually refer to as ‘uptight’ but this blogger believes is simply a reflection of our unique discerning qualities.
  • Thanks to the TV adaptation of his novel, Brideshead Revisited, we all got to see Jeremy Irons involed in homo erotica and being artfully semi naked in various idyllic situations.
  • Waugh’s brilliant literary legacy+Jeremy Irons semi naked= happy hottiesfromhistory bloggers.

-Georgia

May 12
April 27
Frederick Douglass. 1818-1895 Hottie from History #something. Why he is a hotty? When he was a slave, at the age of sixteen, he was beaten by his master. But he fought back, and the farmer stopped beating him. Ha. I don’t make a habit of condoning violence…but in this case..I think it’s pretty hot. He escaped from slavery. In order to do that, I guess you have to comply to a certain degree of hotness: quick thinking, ambition, inner strength…and, for that matter, probably some lovely outer strength as well. Nom. He has a very serious face. Look at it, all serious. If that face told you that they wanted to sleep with you…well…you just wouldn’t be able to say no. I think assertive is the word. Assertively hot. Oh…and he was one of the leading American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s. He was a woman’s suffragist as well. He cared about women’s equality back in the day when this was basically a rare thing for a man to do.  He was involved with the Quaker Underground Railroad, which helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom, putting his own freedom and life in grave danger. He once said “A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.” And self confidence is an attractive trait. Especially when your a humanitarian genius. Spent a fair bit of time in jail. I think this adds to his hotness…you know, willing to suffer for the cause and all that. When he became an old man, he had a massive grey-white beard. That is the mark of a distinguished hotty. In fact, it possibly made him that tiny little bit more of a hotty. Massive grey-white beards rule. Fact.

Frederick Douglass. 1818-1895

Hottie from History #something.

Why he is a hotty?

  • When he was a slave, at the age of sixteen, he was beaten by his master. But he fought back, and the farmer stopped beating him. Ha. I don’t make a habit of condoning violence…but in this case..I think it’s pretty hot.
  • He escaped from slavery. In order to do that, I guess you have to comply to a certain degree of hotness: quick thinking, ambition, inner strength…and, for that matter, probably some lovely outer strength as well. Nom.
  • He has a very serious face. Look at it, all serious. If that face told you that they wanted to sleep with you…well…you just wouldn’t be able to say no. I think assertive is the word. Assertively hot.
  • Oh…and he was one of the leading American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s.
  • He was a woman’s suffragist as well. He cared about women’s equality back in the day when this was basically a rare thing for a man to do. 
  • He was involved with the Quaker Underground Railroad, which helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom, putting his own freedom and life in grave danger.
  • He once said “A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.” And self confidence is an attractive trait. Especially when your a humanitarian genius.
  • Spent a fair bit of time in jail. I think this adds to his hotness…you know, willing to suffer for the cause and all that.
  • When he became an old man, he had a massive grey-white beard. That is the mark of a distinguished hotty. In fact, it possibly made him that tiny little bit more of a hotty. Massive grey-white beards rule. Fact.
March 10
February 18

Hotty from History #14- Buster Keaton (1895-1966)

Why he qualifies (even though he died 6 years too recently)

  • He basically invented the deadpan physical comic. Which is one of the best kinds. His nickname was “The Great Stone Face”. And it was a lovely face.
  • He started performing at the age of three. What an amazing toddler
  • He went alcoholic when his wife left him and refused him contact to his children and took his entire fortune. Okay…so alcoholism shouldn’t be attractive, but somehow, when you picture this darling penniless deadpan comic sitting alone, gazing out of a window wishing he was with his kids, drinking his heart out, you can’t help but want to give him a nice long cuddle.
  • He used hats in his stunts so regularly, he said he thought he was lucky if he managed to complete a film with less than six hats! What a lovely eccentricity.
  • His face is very nice. In a very strange way.

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