victorian times

Review: Love and Scandal by Donna Lea Simpson

by Keira 07.09.2011

A lady in Victorian times had little options when it came to acceptable jobs. Writing novels was simply not one of them and certainly not publishing them. That’s why Collette Jardiniere hides her authorship of The Last Days of a Rake behind the pseudonym Collin Jenkins. That is until some trumped-up peacock of a rake [...]

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Review: Carnal Machines edited by D.L. King

by Sandra Scholes 06.25.2011

by Sandra Scholes, guest reviewer In Victorian times the emphasis on women and men was of being courteous, proper and reserved, yet in society that didn’t sit well with many of the people of the day, especially the well off and super rich who held lavish balls and parties at their huge estates where who [...]

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Illegitimacy in the Regency

by Guest Blogger 06.06.2011

by Grace Burrowes, guest blogger and author of The Soldier This topic is of sufficient depth that several PhD’s could spend several thoroughly enjoyable lifetimes researching it, and still have plenty of areas for fascinating debate. That said, I am not a PhD, so disclaimers are in order: I’ve done research, but my efforts are [...]

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Edward Cullen’s Forbidden Fruit: Twilight Perfume

by Keira 01.04.2009

Now available for purchase is the scent that drives Edward Cullen to distraction… that irresistibly forbidden fruit… the scent that is his own personal brand of heroin. He compares Bella’s scent to freesia and lavender in the first book on page 306. Freesia appears several times throughout the series; the more memorable moments being when [...]

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