Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

I have to credit Denise with this idea. I was casting about trying to decide what I wanted to blog about next when I learned to my surprise ...

During Queen Victoria’s reign, Albert undertook a phenomenal achievement. Although exhibitions highlighting industry and science and techno...

"Lina" and Nancy Astor were obviously different sorts of women - their personalities, appearances and lives were worlds apart. But...

A Lady’s Life in Mourning Mourning dictated that ladies limit, if not eliminate, their social activities. Men and children were also limite...

Check out these pictures of rare (and pretty) clouds over Antarctica. ‘Polar stratospheric clouds’ formed last week when temperatures droppe...

America's Gilded Age began with the legendary John Jacob Astor. He is called "the first truly diversified capitalist in America...

Every year Romance Writer's of America holds a national conference for its 9500 members. It includes workshops, agent/editor appointment...

Espionage During the Civil War In the 1860s during the war between the states just how many spies were traveling back and forth across the l...

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...