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.
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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
Research-reading Sherlock: Holmes and the Agony Columns
Research-reading Sherlock: Newspapers part 2 by Alicia Rasley Sherlock Holmes and the Agony Column Last post, I discussed how Holmes and Watson used the many
Research-reading Sherlock: Holmes and the London Newspapers
Sherlock Holmes and the London Newspapers by Alicia Rasley The late-19th Century was a time of intense technological innovation, and as I’ve described, Holmes and
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
Research-reading Sherlock, Transportation Transformation
Research-reading Sherlock, Transportation Transformation by Alicia Rasley Sherlock Holmes wasn’t the very first fictional detective (that was probably Poe’s Dupin). But he was very much
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
Working Collaboratively: Writers’ Critique Groups
Collaborative relationships in writing come in a variety of shapes and sizes. You might have a writing partner that you work collaboratively with, as I
New Writers Ask: Can’t Craft Be Learned?
Can’t craft be learned? I’ve had a number of writers I’ve mentored or critiqued ask me some form of this question. Sometimes it’s a plaintive
New Writers Ask About Editors: What Does My Editor Need to Know?
When you line up a freelance editor to go over your work, it helps if you have a good grasp of the same things you
Writers, Truthers & the Big Question
I commented in the first segment of this series about the similar thought patterns and behaviors shared by some inexperienced writers and conspiracy theorists (or