12-16. Waiting today. Trying to occupy myself and not look at the clock.
(My apologies that this post was sent as an email. I had turned an old post from private to public, hoping to avoid the automatic email, but alas. With Twitter getting kinda weird, I’m looking for ways to post small things.)
How To Impress A Marquess Mood Board It’s release day for How To Impress a Marquess! Finally! Let’s talk a little bit about the writing of this book. The other two books in the Wicked Little Secrets series possess strong external plots that borrow from the mystery genre. I diligently studied in depth one technical aspect of...
1902 Women’s Fashions – Les Modes I was waiting on an email to arrive, so I thought I would check out some Les Modes fashions from 1902. I got a little carried away…...
Making It On The Victorian Stage – You’ve Been Cast! Now What? Welcome to another installment of my Victorian theater post series! Leman Rede’s book The Road To The Stage, Or, The Performer’s Preceptor, first published in 1827, has sparked my imagination to write about an actor or actress character in a future book. Imagine the possibilities for a character who is...
Lovely Gowns and Hats from 1910 Today I roamed about the beautiful clothes at Anthropologie. I left the store empty-handed but full of blog post inspiration. In lieu of the lovely dresses and blouses at Anthropologie that I didn’t purchase, I created this post of Les Modes fashions. Click on an image to enlarge. Enjoy....
Fashion from Journal Des Dames et Des Modes 1818 — Part II I’m having great fun restoring fashion images from the 1818 editions of Journal Des Dames et Des Mode that I found in the library of France. I should have more pictures ready to post tomorrow or the next day. Click on a thumbnail below to the view the entire image. Enjoy! ...
Lost in the Regency Mail When I wrote my first book RAKES AND RADISHES, I had to do a great deal of research on the exciting details of British mail delivery. Not only did I need to learn how a person retrieves her mail, but also the timing of communications. That was years ago, and,...
Diary of a Union Soldier in Georgia — The Fall of Atlanta, Part II These entries detail the remaining time that the one hundred and twenty-ninth regiment spent in war-shattered Atlanta. It is excerpted from History of the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by William Grunert. Sept. 3, 1864 Our brigade yet remained behind the old entrenchments on the Chattahoochee, guarding both bridges leading over...
Fashion from Journal Des Dames et Des Modes 1818 — Part I This afternoon I was glancing through a publication from the Kyoto Costume Institute when I found a reference to “Journal Des Dames.” I hurried back to my computer and found the journal in the library of France! While I was working on my latest WIP, I kept Photoshop running and...