Our History and Purpose

The Gibson Girls welcome you to their new abode! We used to be located at this address. Please update your bookmarks! As soon as we have settled in, we must have you up for tea!

The name of our society is drawn from the "Gibson Girls" drawn by Charles Dana Gibson at the turn of the nineteenth century. These illustrations shaped the mindset of the women forging into the twentieth century afire with ambitions and ideals. They were able to assert both their independence and femininity at once. The Gibson Girl was elegant, yet spirited; she had ladylike grace and breeding, yet could just as readily go out to play a game of lawn tennis as take up her needlepoint or preside over the pouring of the tea.

As a society, The Gibson Girls Online (whose page you now grace) were founded in 1998 by Lady Andrea Goulet and Lady Mary Sue Hicks. It was to be a society for young Christian ladies who prefered a gentler era when manners and morals ruled the day in good society and ladies and gentlemen behaved as such. Our founders met with instant success and began a legacy which has inspired numerous young ladies already and which we expect to continue for years to come.

It has been nearly ten years since The Gibson Girls were founded, and we are as active and vital a community as ever. Many of the faces peopling our forum have changed over the years, but the spirit remains the same. All of our members are addressed as Lady and behave as such at all times. Our rooms are many and varied, and we offer a plethora of activities ranging from gift exchanges, recipe swaps, and monthly book discussions to even the occasional bal du masque. If you are accepted into The Gibson Girls you will receive access to all of our members-only amenities, including the heart and center of our activities, our private message board, which we have structured to be an imaginary English Manorhouse on the web.

We do invite you to consider joining our society and look forward to finding your application in our mailbox soon!

P.S. If ever you see a cluster of young ladies wandering around your hometown with parasols and in full Edwardian regalia it may just be some of us!

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