Lillie Langtry
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Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe, known as Lillie Langtry and nicknamed "The Jersey Lily," was a British socialite, stage actress and producer.
Langtry in 1882
Portrait of Langtry by Frank Miles, before 1891
The yacht Red Gauntlet, owned by Edward Langtry, Lillie's husband.
Portrait of Langtry by William Downey of Ebury Street, London, 1885
Pears (soap)
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Pears Glycerin soap is a British brand of soap first produced and sold in 1807 by Andrew Pears, at a factory just off Oxford Street in London. It was the world's first mass-market translucent soap. Un
Lillie Langtry
…woman of great beauty and charm. During the aesthetic movement in England, she was painted by aesthete artists. In 1882, she became the poster-girl for Pears soap, and thus the first celebrity to endorse a commercial product. In 1881, Langtry became an actress and made her West End debut in the comedy She Stoops…
Bubbles by John Everett Millais. Pears' most famous advertisement, Thomas Barratt purchased the painting in August 1890.
Parody of Barratt's advertising
A close-up of Pears soap
Advertisement for Pears soap from the 1890s promoting cleanliness as "a first step towards lightening the White Man's Burden".