The Marvelous Mrs. Fish
One of the most interesting people I’ve “met” over the course of doing research for my non-nineteenth century books is Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, known as
Tag: social history
A Story Goes Viral, 1894
We’re so familiar with the phenomenon of information spreading ultra quickly and widely that we have a metaphor for it. We say the news item
Wit and the Art of Conversation
As I was growing up, I became aware of people talking about how witty this book was, or that movie, or a famous person sitting