Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

I was researching a Chateau, and as often happens, I came across something completely different. Did everyone but me know that Queen Victor...

We’re starting a new thing here. You might’ve heard of Thirteen Thursday. We’re doing Tuesday Ten (it’s the alliteration). This is a list of...

I love Savannah ! Love, love, love it. It's my perfect city, and if my life wasn't tied to the Northeast, I'd move there. OK, an...

The Necessary Toilets in the 1800’s Probably everyone is aware that early Romans and Greeks had ingenious indoor plumbing and heating based ...

Isn't all it's cracked up to be. I went away on this mini-vacation to Hilton Head to write, and ended up with a horrible migraine th...

In my Civil War time travel romance, Erin's Rebel , my heroine is a modern day journalist who finds herself transported to the time of t...

Here's the next part of our monthly interviews with our authors. This month we're talking to Jennifer Ross, whose short story app...

It's September (do I hear a big wail?) So as summer theoretically wanes, I thought I'd revisit my 2007 goals. Not that I really reme...

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...