Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

As writers, we spend a great deal of time focusing on things like point of view, plotting, pacing, passive voice and the craft of constructi...

I love research, and can lose myself in it. Recently, I've been working on the details needed for a fake foretune teller in Victorian E...

Thanks to Dee for this. I know she’s on her way to Atlanta for the RWA National Conference, so I thought I’d post what she’s helped me find ...

Victorian Ladies' Headwear The main type of headwear worn by women of the 1860s was the bonnet. Women's diaries of the period often ...

Cross-country vacations were ‘invented’ by Samuel Bowles (1826-1878). The Springfield Republican newspaper editor, he traveled across Americ...

By Caroline Clemmons Rail travel’s hypnotic rhythm, unique smells, and the sense of adventure stir the imagination, but a few basic facts of...

Cowboy. Gambler. Gunslinger. Soiled Dove. Law man . Funny how the very names bring to mind a certain image, one largely created by Holl...

I've already talked about what men of the 1860s wore over their clothing in cold or inclement weather, but what did the ladies wear? Wom...

One of the strongest influencers of Victorian trends and fashion was Eugenie, the Empress of France. What does a French empress have to do ...

“Built to reduce pedestrian traffic jams, its construction in the 'seventies was considered as a miracle of engineering.” The 1870s , of...

One of the most popular forms of birth control during the Victorian Period is still popular today—the condom—originally invented to protect ...

Another real-life heroine I based my fictional heroine, Cassidy Stuart, on in my novel, Under the Guns, was Louisa May Alcott, author of Lit...

Coats Most Victorian gentlemen owned four different types of coat to fit every occasion. These consisted of the business coat, frock coat, d...

Telltale Embroidery Embroidery experienced a revival (along with anything else Elizabethan) during Victoria’s reign. Authors writing about ...

Victorian Menswear Trousers of the mid-nineteenth century Men's trousers of the mid-nineteenth century weren't much different from m...

When we think of the Victorian period, we probably don’t consider birth control. Surely this was not a part of Victorian life, right? Wron...

Victorian Menswear Shirts & Undergarments of the mid-nineteenth century What men wore in the mid-nineteenth century wasn't that much...

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...