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Check out these fabulous historical fiction authors!25 Historical Fiction Authors You Should Know: www.hastybooklist.com/home/25-historical-fiction-authors-you-should-know (an incomplete list of fantastic authors writing in the historical fiction genre)
25 Historical Fiction Authors You Should Know: www.hastybooklist.com/home/25-historical-fiction-authors-you-should-know (an incomplete list of fantastic authors writing in the historical fiction genre)
Yesterday we had two inches of snow and today we are sitting on the terrace soaking up sun and watching these beautiful butterflies feeding on the apricot blossom. In England we call this butterfly a Camberwell Beauty, and I've just found out that here in New Mexico its called Mourning Cloak. I can't decide which name I like best.
Counting fat iris buds as they slowly slide out from between leaves. In about three weeks they will look like this!
Lucy Duff Gordon was lucky enough to survive the sinking of the Titanic in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. But it wasn't luck that made her one of the most sought after fashion designers of her time. Lucy's label Lucile Ltd created some of the most glamorous, alluring and elegant gowns of the early 1900s. Her eye for exquisite detail and her use of color made her clothes so desirable that she opened a salon in New York and another in Paris. A DRESS OF VIOLET TAFFETA celebrates Lucy's abundant creativity and her single minded purpose that took her from a penniless single mother to an international couturier in a fashion world dominated by male designers!Here are three of her lovely looks!
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Death of a Dishonorable Gentlemen
Death of a Dishonorable Gentlemen will be released by Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Press January 6, 2015.
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A Party for Winston
A Party for Winston. The second book in the series to be released in January 2016.
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Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon and the Dress of Emotion
Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon is possibly more infamously known for the scandal surrounding her escape from the Titanic in an almost empty lifeboat with her secretary and her husband Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. Continue reading
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Iyntwood’s Favorite Reads for 1912
It’s that list-making time of year. The ‘best of’ lists…’ As a particularly dedicated list-maker, I wanted to share Iyntwood’s favorite reads for 1912. Continue reading
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Kenneth Grahame and the Wild Wooders
“The Wind in the Willows” published in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame has often been referred to as a pastoral hymn to the rural beauty of England and the relatively un-spoiled countryside of the early 1900s. Continue reading
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Vaslav Nijinksy and the Ballet Russe
It was during the frenzy of the Coronation year of George V in 1911 that brought Nijinsky, star of the Ballet Russe, before the British public. Continue reading
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Bertie and the Entente Cordiale
It seems only right that I kick off this blog with the greatest Edwardian of them all: King Edward VII or Bertie as he was known to his family. Continue reading
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