Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

Baby Doe Tabor was not always a Tabor. She was born and baptized Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt to Irish Catholic parents in Oshkosh, Wisconsin ...

Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was the father of many American police detection techniques and founder of America's most famous detective a...

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In 1919 Clara Dunham Crowell, a former waitress at the Two Bit House, was the law in Lander County, Nevada. Clara Dunham married George Crow...

Testing this to see how things transfer to word press. This is a test. It is only a test. In the case of a real emergency. . .

As Halloween fast approaches, the holiday here in the US seems to get bigger each year. I had to wonder, how and when did this holiday take ...

Beyond fairy tales, the Victorian Age happenings provide opportunistic contrasts for noble and royal characters, and possible fodder for sto...

The trend-sensitive Victorians spent much time and effort on their wardrobes, sometimes due to matters of economy, as well as to keep fashio...

Just wanted to show off my brand new cover for my Civil War romance, Confederate Rose , just contracted by The Wild Rose Press. Isn't it...

It is Election time in both Canada and the United States, so I thought I’d take a look at what elections were like during Victoria’s reign. ...

This is not Tuesday and I'm not writing ten things. At least I'm getting a post in, though! This book was a best seller ages ago, bu...

As a writer, I’m usually leery of challenging myself, but there are times when it turns out to be fun. And I don’t merely mean making...

I came across this article by Kris Lindquist in my Civil War reenactor magazine on fashion during the Victorian era and thought the info wou...

As you may or may not know, I went to San Fran recently for the RWA National Conference. This is what I learned from my 4 days there. You ma...

After doing Tuesday ten for lo these many years, we have decided to cut ourselves a little slack. Mostly because it's darned hard to com...

This past weekend, my family and I took a little day trip back in time. Not far from where I live in Rochester , NY , there is a jewel kno...

What makes Dame Judie Dench or Sir Paul McCarthy worthy of being knighted and er…damed? I have no idea. Sure, I like some of her movies and ...

From Random House Dictionary of American Slang, by J. E. Lighter. I have the first two editions, up to the letter O. The last one was neve...

Commonly known for its vast interests world-wide, and for being richer than many monarchs, the EIC was formed by English Royal Charter by ...

Today is July 2nd. In the year 1863, one of the bloodiest battles lasting three days was happening in the little town of Gettysburg, Pennsyl...