Showing posts with label Marie Corelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marie Corelli. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Jobs for Women: the Angel in the Workforce

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For 465 years, from 1377 to 1835 [the Ship and Turtle Tavern] was run by a succession of widows. During the Victorian era, the Ship and...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

Humans of London (in the 1890s)

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Who isn't occasionally inspired by Humans of New York? Since I've taken a little break from writing recently and been playing with ...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dens of Debauchery

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Without kids to take trick-or-treating, we've been talking about going out for Halloween, but no one wants to spend too much money, ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Where did your favourite 1890s writer go to school?

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What did it take to be a successful writer in 1890s London? Did Education have anything to do with it? While managing the Lyceum, Bram S...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

LGBT Writers in London in the 1890s

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This short descriptive list should serve as a catalogue of LGBT writers, who were active in fin-de-siècle London - that is the London of t...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Perverted Biographies of Marie Corelli

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Like any other kind of writer, historians want to make their writing interesting. So, what is so-and-so had sex with so-and-so? That would b...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Dancing Through Literature in the 1890s

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I’ve spent the past week struggling to write a scene in which my characters are dancing at a ball in 1890. Invariably, it comes off soun...
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