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...
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...
The Subtle Art of Introductions in 1836 Today I’m excerpting from the chapter on introductions in The Laws Of Etiquette; Or, Short Rules And Reflections For Conduct In Society, by A Gentleman, published in 1836 in Philadelphia. I had created a draft of this post and then dashed off on an errand. I smiled when my car...
Nancy Mayer explains Regency Marriage Laws and How to Dissolve a Regency Marriage. This is an excerpt from an article by Nancy Mayer. You can read the entirety of it on her website The Regency Researcher. As many of you know, I’m her web mistress. After March 25, 1754, when the Hardwicke Act for the Prevention of Clandestine Marriages went into effect, couples marrying...
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....
A Victorian Country Inn One of my favorite activities as a writer is to visualize the space my characters move about in. Naturally I was thrilled when I ran across An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture; containing numerous designs for dwelling from the cottage to the villa, including farm houses,...
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,...