It is a truth universally acknowledged… Plus #BookReview of Intrigue & Infamy by @CarolJHedges #VictorianDetective #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog
It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, …
Tag Archives: Victorian
#GenreMashup Week #BookReview number 1: Fear & Phantoms by @CarolJHedges #VictorianDetective #RBRT
Now that you’re all genre experts after my intro-post here, I’ve promised a week of book reviews of new genre …
#London Part 3: Hell, sleeping Victorians, or buried alive? Plus #BookReview APPRENTICED TO MY MOTHER by @geofflepard #humor #Memoir
[MY APOLOGIES TO MY NEIGHBOR PETER AND TO SISTER MARY SIXTH GRADE: my friend Peter informed me (correctly) that in …
STILL @CarolJHedges writes better Dickens than Dickens~WONDERS & WICKEDNESS #BookReview, #Mystery, #TuesdayBookBlog
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop” —Gertrude Stein In 1900, L. Frank Baum published two …
Why @CarolJHedges writes better Dickens than Dickens #BookReview, #Mystery, #Victorian #RBRT
Not to be confused with Assassin’s Creed! For some reason, author Carol Hedges doesn’t enjoy having her fans directed to …
“The game’s afoot!” Baby farming, Victorian sleuthing, and the occasional monster #BookReview, #Mystery, #TuesdayBookBlog #RBRT
Why is everyone talking about… I know it’s happened to you too—you encounter something for the first time, and all of …
#Gothic, #Ghosts, and #Victorian Viagra, ~DANGER AT THATCHAM HALL by Frances Evesham #RBRT #Bookreviews, interview, excerpt
Arsenic poisoning was a common way for Victorians to die. They used it everywhere: in the new, fashionable green wallpaper that Queen Victoria used in Buckingham Palace; in the green dye of dresses; in “Dr Simms Arsenic Complexion Wafers and Medicated Arsenic Soap;” designed to give a woman a rosy complexion; and in a ‘pure’ form which men took to improve sexual function. Unfortunately, death often followed on the heels of such a use of “Victorian Viagra,” but at least those men died happy.
