Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

The late 19th century brought exercise to the Victorians, both men and women—gymnasiums, bicycling and tennis. Even in Victorian times, tenn...

I had an interesting discussion last week in my book club. We’d read The Handmaid’s Tale and were wondering about Margaret Atwood’s other w...

Okay. I know. A lot of writers hate revisions. And I've just gone through a drastic rewrite of my time travel romance, Erin's Rebel ...

In the course of my reading, I was a little surprised to learn that Amelia Bloomer, the originator of the Bloomer costume so many of us are ...

Photography in the Victorian Era One of the most important inventions of the nineteenth century was the development of photography. At the s...

Having grown up on Victoria Holt, I adore the Victorian era. It seems so mysterious, so Gothic , and no matter how much research I do to she...

I'm interested in a lot of different historical periods, and several of my WIPs aren’t remotely connected to this timeperiod. My undergr...

In my next book, Stalking Star, the heroine is a woman’s right’s activist in 1886. To fully understand the movement and how she feels about...

Female Civil War Soldiers Although I've started revisions on my time travel romance, Erin's Rebel , I'm also revising an outline...

This war signaled end of Zulu independence, and shouldn't be confused with the Boer Wars (1880-1881 and 1899-1904). It was a complicate...

Incorporated by John D. Rockefeller in 1870, Standard Oil used effective but widely criticized tactics, to absorb or destroy most of its com...

For much of the last 25 years the notion of using painkilling drugs during childbirth has been considered by many to be passé at best, poor ...

French Captain, Alfred Dreyfus, was falsely accused, court marshaled, and sentenced to Devil’s Island Prison in French Guyana in 4 months fo...

In 1850, President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of Utah territory. Then reports spread that Mormon leaders disreg...

President Benjamin Harrison welcomes Alice Sanger as the first female White House staffer today in 1890. It has been speculated that Ms. San...

Happy New Year! For 2007 my fellow Scandalous Victorian and I have discussed making our blog a little more writer friendly. Of course we wan...

It was a short-lived state formed by former Tokugawa retainers in Hokkaido, the northernmost, sparsely populated island of modern Japan. In ...

From my writing journals: Research for my Victorian era story led me to the former badlands around Nevada one year. With enough history for...

Although the Irish immigrants arriving in America had come to escape hunger and oppression, they found that life for them didn't change ...

In 1843 Charles Dickens (officially) published A Christmas Carol in England. All 6,000 copies sold out by the 22nd. That's the kind of ...