Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

Victorians found the sonorous notes of guitars and their accompanying wailing love songs to be especially endearing during moonlit forays or...

I researched Dr. Mary Walker years ago and used her along with a few other Victorian women whose stories I admired as a composite for my fic...

WELCOME to a new series on the Tycoons, the fascinating men who created today's corporate world. Their heyday matched Victoria's rei...

Just as we wear different outfits to the office, a night on the town, exercise, shopping or working or lounging around the house, the Victor...

Oh, wait…what do you mean it isn’t part of the Food Pyramid? Are you sure? That has to be an oversight! Sacrilege! Blasphemy! Oh the horror!...

Mourning Rituals and Customs in the Victorian Era* Death is a subject most of us don’t like to think about or even talk about, but Victorian...

So you think the Victorians were prudish, uptight people in high-necked clothing, huh? Well I suppose at certain times during the period, a...

It's the end of the world, as we know it... [REM, Its the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)] On Wednesday night, at 2 mi...

Oh wow. I meant to do a blog on the Victorian Free Love movement, which started before the Civil War and lasted through the '70's. ...

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president, in 1872, almost 50 years before the nineteenth amendment guaranteed women the ri...

Hate to do the laundry? Well, compared to the Victorians, we have it easy. We separate our clothes by whites and colors, dark and light, the...

Now I'll wrap up my series on Victorian undergarments. Petticoats were used to keep dresses clean by avoiding contact with skin and also...

So I cooked the Victorian Dinner, ate the Victorian dinner and now I have the Victorian hips. Just for kicks, I took the menu I published ea...

Contrary to the ideas some folks have about the old west, there were many towns with fine hotels. Some of the better hotels had restaurants ...

According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette ), suffragists are peaceful protestors and suffragettes are violent prot...

It wasn’t the menu. I had the menu all set, complete with all the courses that my handy-dandy cookbook suggested—A Matter of History compil...

What's a Victorian hotel without a few resident ghosts? A hotel that's probably losing money. The beautiful Crescent Hotel in the Vi...

When you think of Victorian clothing, you usually envision the hourglass silhouette. The corset was responsible for creating the illusion of...

I'm taking a sanity break between homework and studying today ... blogging sounds like too much fun, by comparison: During some of my fa...

Technology: 1. a. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives. b. The scientific method and material used ...