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
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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,
Trollope: Bad Marriages and Toxic Masculinity
Trollope’s Bad Marriages Anthony Trollope was an advocate of marriage, having famously said that a woman’s “best right” was to a husband, not the vote.
Research-reading Anthony Trollope: Trollope’s Women
The Sexist or the Feminist? Anthony Trollope and His Women By Alicia Rasley I’m back in the mid-to-late-19th Century Britain, when ladies wore bustles and
Research-reading Sherlock: Holmes and Money Crimes
In the last post, I discussed currency in the Victorian period, and how the Holmes stories give precise information on the price of everything from
Sherlock Holmes and Money Matters
Sherlock and Money Matters By Alicia Rasley The British money system in the 19th C (actually, well into the 20th C— the decimal currency wasn’t
More Research-Reading Sherlock: Holmes the Early Adopter by Alicia Rasley
Recording Pictures and Sound Two other technological innovations Holmes encountered were photography and audio recording. By Holmes’s time, cameras and film had evolved enough that
More Research-reading Sherlock- Modern Communications– by Alicia Rasley
Sherlock and Modern Communications In 1876 Thomas Watson, a young engineer, was summoned by a peremptory British colleague: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to
Research-reading Sherlock Holmes
The Curious Case of the Author and the Detective Hi, I’m Alicia Rasley, a new Book View Café member. I write Regency romances, and I
No Slang Like Old Slang, Unless It’s New–Part 2
For most writers of historical fiction, the slang of the 19th century is a delight. Creative and clever, it’s fun to know and, for us,
Mom, Sort of
If you were a member of the aristocratic or gentry classes in the 19th century, it was almost a given you’d have two (or more)
Quiz: No Slang Like Old Slang, Unless It’s New
For most writers of historical fiction, the slang of the 19th century is a delight. Creative and clever, it’s fun to know and, for us,
Governesses, Part 2: Educating Lady Agatha
Continued from last time (see here.) Lady Agatha Crumpington is now nearly five. Her devoted nurse, Mrs. Hoggett, has taught her to not make messes