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
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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,
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 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
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
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
Why I Write #1
My father wrote newspaper headlines like a Zen master wrote haiku, with that much care and attention. He loved puns, and all sorts of wordplay,
Learning to breathe again
All my life writing has been life and breath to me (as anyone who evern knew me can attest). Poetry was my inheritance, passed onto
Boy Meets Girl
Back in college I saw a 1935 stage place called Boy Meets Girl. (Picture from here.) It was what we would call these days a
A Writer’s Life, Continued
I write, but I don’t necessarily identify as a writer. However, I am susceptible to pain. So, if tortured I might confess to it. But