Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Greenaway Vogue

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Kate Greenaway was the author and artist of Victorian childhood by the 1890s. She drew the idyllic images of Victorian children that we t...
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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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Friday, November 7, 2014

Who was Dracula?

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Who was Dracula? Ever since the novel was published in 1897, scholars and fans have been trying to answer this question. In honour of Bra...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

H.G. Wells and the OED

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In honor of my side project, the Dictionary of Victorian Insults & Niceties , this post explores H.G. Wells contributions to the Engli...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

The Dictionary of Victorian Insults & Niceties

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The Dictionary of Victorian Insults & Niceties is a resource for historical fiction author, and lovers of Victorian culture. Thi...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Triumphs of a Taxidermist

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I usually love the macabre, but my husband thinks taxidermy is appalling. After reading H.G. Wells' The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894)...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Sherlock Holmes and Retired Copyright

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Thanks to a legal battle between author, Leslie Klinger, and the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , the tales of Sherlock Holmes are now in...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Gandhi, Vegetarianism, and 1890s London

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Grouse or partridge, pheasant, duck, woodcock or snipe; quails from Egypt, fattened in Europe; oysters, swallowed between mouthfuls of bre...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Tex

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In so far as he wished to be remembered at all, it was not as a man of letters, but as a friend, a connoisseur of life, a man of sympathy u...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Wilde's Last Real Friend

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The Picture of Dorian Gray recently ranked 27th in the Guardian's list of the 100 best novels . Robert McCrum goes on to explain that Do...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Immoral Essays by Bram Stoker

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I've been slowly reading my way through  The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years , when I started laughing. One entry, wri...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The World of Dress

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"It is merely a question of head," said Percy Anderson to me one day, whilst we were discussing some easy method of solving...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

50 Random Things about Bram Stoker

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Bram Stoker 1. Bram Stoker was a good dancer and especially liked to waltz. 2. Stoker was named after his father, a clerk at Dublin ca...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Thank You for a Wonderful Year!

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A year ago today, I started this blog with my first post: American Cigarettes . I was and still am doing research for my book. A few d...
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