An Unlikely Event – Meteor Meets Cricket Match
For some reason I decided I had to have a story where my sleuthing couple are at a cricket match and the batter gets “beaned”
Tag: 19th century life
Roberts Chapel: A Historic Hoosier Settlement
My husband Jeff and I have spent the last few years travelling throughout Indiana, with plans to write a bestseller (just kidding) book describing the
Murder in My Front Yard
Like so many perfectly nice law-abiding people, I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts. I’ve learned about a newish tool in the toolkit
“To Conceal Is to Reveal.” The Paradox of Masquerades
“To Conceal Is to Reveal.” The Paradox of Masquerades Hello, everyone! I did my master’s thesis on Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, and during the pandemic,
BFFs—Best Friends 4-ever (literally)
Alicia’s Trollope Posts in Order Here The Palliser series by Anthony Trollope overflows with great characters and relationships, particularly the eponymous Pallisers– Plantagenet and Glencora,
Trollope and the Toxic Friend
The Evolution of a Toxic Friendship The Palliser novels of Anthony Trollope are all about power and connections. One common theme of the novels is
Family Friendships with Trollope’s Women
Finally the Bechdel Test! The Bechdel test is the invention of cartoonist Allison Bechdel, who in the 1980s noticed how frequently Hollywood films diminish
Bad Women of Trollope
Trollope’s Bad Women As I’ve shown, Trollope clearly had no preference for the patriarchy. He presented the undoubted reality that men had more power, more
Research-reading Trollope: The Garden-Variety Bad Husband
The Garden-Variety Bad Husband Now, after the operatically self-destructive Kennedy and Trevelyan, we come to a more conventionally bad husband, Ferdinand Lopez. He was an
Research-reading Trollope: The Poison of Power
Louis Trevelyan, Domestic Tyrant Trollope understood that men can be the victims of masculine power and violence too. There’s Phineas Finn, for example, who is
They’re Everywhere!
In fiction about the 19th century, you see them everywhere: they’re carrying tea trays, opening doors, serving dinner, or wandering about decoratively at balls wearing
Another Trollope Trope: Bad Husbands Self-Destruct
Bad Husbands and the Paradox of Power There are two 21st century terms which apply to Trollope’s 19th-century bad husbands: Toxic masculinity and death by
Trollope, the Postal Pillar-box, and the Fourth Wall
But first, a digression into postal history! (British history and literature are so charmingly replete with such odd anecdotes. Trollope most of all would approve,