Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

What do Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have to do with the Victorian Era? Actually, they became popular and proper topics of conversati...

1.) Antiseptics—as we know them, anyway. In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis in Hungaria noted that when doctors washed their hands between pregnant p...

Thanksgiving was one of those holidays people celebrated but not necessarily one that everyone recognized. Actually, it was a jumble of days...

In the old west, the only means of public transportation was the stagecoach. Stage stops were as common on the western plains as bus stops...

I just completed a workshop on persistence. That is, persistence as in regard to writing and getting your work noticed. I thought I had pers...

Look - it's Tuesday! I totally missed that, what with the holiday (well it was for me, did you thank a Vet this weekend?) and the long w...

One thing Queen Victoria represented with her imperialism and personal lifestyle was a quest for presenting greatness. Each undertaking was ...

After posting this, I realized that the last Tuesday Ten was about research books too--on the West. Ah well, I wrote it, I'll post it. ...

In this age of CSI, Without a Trace and a host of other television stories we tend sometimes to look back on previous eras with nostalgia. O...

Scandalous Victorian Nic tells us about her writing and her winter release The Model Man. Why do you write historical? Aside from having...

I’m taking my muse on a fashion sortie while I revise a Victorian manuscript. Personal dissatisfaction with the costume details in my story ...

Here for this week's Tuesday ten are ten books to help you breathe life into your old west characters and take your reader there: 1. Tim...

I am a Red Sox fan. I have been for lo these many years, and have experienced the highs, and far more often the lows, of watching my team....

It’s amazing that what we take for granted now was new and fascinating slightly more than 100 years ago. I admit, some might be a stretch, b...

It's a common question asked at a birth, but when studying pbotos from the nineteenth century, it's often hard to tell whether a you...

The American cowboy’s code of ethics was pretty straightforward—but each “rule” was backed up by plain ol’ common sense. Here, for our Tues...

Why do you write historical? I’ve always been a storyteller. Even as a child. In Kindergarten, I’d gather dozens of students about to tell t...

After doing my very first interview on this blog last month, I was asked to do an interview on Shirley Kiger Connolly's website. I had f...

I bought several slang dictionaries years back to help me get a feel for period dialogue. I often found that the slang references were from...

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