Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

I love music, and wonder why it's taken me so long to do a post (or whatever) on it. I was watching Disney's Mickey and the Beanstal...

Thought I'd continue with my theme on music. It's an important part of daily life, then and now. How often do you turn on the radio,...

The 'Victorian Era' is so long and encompasses so much, that it's nearly impossible to pick a trend or place or tune or much of ...

Periodically, we scandalous Victorians discuss architecture. Here is a link to an excellent website that covers the subject (complete with p...

Since we've been at this a while now--a year and a half give or take a few months--we've decided it's past time to give the Scan...

I've been trying to think of a new blog topic, but couldn't think of anything fun. That's actually a problem this week, thinking...

Victorians believed in legends of beings of mystical lore including that of the historic Wild Men. In them, European and Asian legends met W...

While working on my new Civil War romance, Katie Rose , I wrote a scene where the heroine, whose brother-in-law has just been killed at Gett...

I was watching the History Channel the other day, no surprise there. But their new series The States was on, and they were talking about Wy...

There is no reason I need to know this. But I was researching the history of the telephone on the Internet (which I do need to know for my ...

My quill pen is in my hand. It's dipped in blood red ink. Here's what's going on. Characterizations for my Victorian novel are u...

It's all the rage. EVERYONE does it (OK, I don't. It requires patience and creativity I don't have.) It's new, it's exci...

Princess Beatrice Contributed to Literature, Part 1 As the youngest of Queen Victoria's children, Beatrice's lot in life was to rema...

But this is a sports-related (online) board game. OK, so it's from a UK primary school, but it's fun! And it's short - there are...

The 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was attended by millions . It's not every year you can celebrate your country's 100t...

It's summer so of course my mind turns to games - usually of the outdoor type but there are rainy days when you need to entertain yourse...

Who? you're probably wondering. Yes, he was a US president - the 19 th . Yes, he was shot. But who was he? The second president to be as...

It's my favorite line from Alice in Wonderland . No, I don't know if it's from the books (though I suspect it is) or even which ...

You know, the author of the World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front. What does his birth have to do with the Victorian Era? Very li...

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