ChocolateConrad t1_j28rsrm wrote on December 30, 2022 at 1:50 PM

Reply to comment by OorPancake in TIL Archduchess Mathilde of Austria accidentally set her dress alight and immolated herself while trying to hide a cigarette from her father by Brotherdodge

Yo that dance was 🔥

OorPancake t1_j28spxf wrote on December 30, 2022 at 1:58 PM

Indeed.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's wife died after her dress caught light and he was so badly burned in the attempt to put it out, that he couldn't make the funeral. (His trademark beard was grown to cover the scarring.)