Bohemianism and Counter-Culture Bohemian Identity Welcome Identity Geography    Cafe Culture Lifestyle    Daily Life Fashion Dandyism Participants Writers    Hugo        Hernani    Murger    Baudelaire    Borel Women    Grisettes Artists    Courbet    Millet    Thackeray Students/Youth    Marius Evolution Generations La Boheme London 1900's Beat Culture Hippie Culture Rent Works Cited To William Makepeace Thackeray, Bohemia is "a land over which hangs an endless fog, occasioned by much tobacco; a land of chambers, billiard-rooms, supper-rooms, oysters; a land of song...of delicious reading of novels, magazines, and saunterings in many studios a land...where most are poor, where almost all are young, and where, if a few oldsters do enter, it is because they have preserved...their youthful spirits, and the delightful capacity to be idle." -(Cross, 109) picture courtesy of www.bohemiabooks.com Bohemia was more than a place, as Thackeray realized. Bohemia can be defined as a geographical location, or a certain time period. Bohemian identity was not created in such specific terms; rather, it was a collection of day-to-day happenings that participants observed and learned from. From different beliefs and experiences emerged a single idea. That idea was Bohemia.