Imprudence Research & Reference Links

Hello Gentle Reader, with Imprudence releasing oh so soon.

Here’s a glimpse into some of the research I had to do for this next Custard Protocol book.

Queen Victoria via Elaine Powell @ManchesterSteam

Politics in the Sudan before and after Rue visits

Mahdist Sudan
Battle of Omdurman (right after Rue leaves this area)

Generally Useful Victorian Stuff

British Army during the Victorian Era
56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using
Why is Helium so Scarce?
Victorian Meals Series: 1. Kitchens, 2. Cooking, 3. Upper-class Dinner
Laudanum, and its many uses
Women and literature in the Victorian era ~ the danger of solitary reading, oh my
Recreating Hairstyles of the 1890s
The Significance of a Diamond-Studded Bicycle, c. 1890

In Which Rue References Things You Might Not Know Of

Maxim gun (as opposed to the Gatling or the Nordenfelt)
Maahes the ancient Egyptian lion-headed god of war, whose name means “he who is true beside her”.
Sekhmet

“Our Homes in 1883 estimated that the average person needed 22 gallons of water a day, divided up as:
Domestic usage, excluding laundry 9 gallons
WCs 5 gallons
Baths, one a week 5 gallons
Washing clothes 3 gallons”
~ The Victorian House by Judith Flanders
(According to USGS.gov the average water use per person per day in the US is 80-100 gallons.)

“Milk is the great difficulty in travelling tea-making. It cannot always be easily obtained, and milk carried about with one in a bottle does not long retain its freshness in hot weather. Some people do not object to the condensed or Swiss milk one buys in small tins. It has the advantage of being extremely portable, but I must confess, personally, to finding its effect detestable in tea or coffee.”

~ Hints to Lady Travellers: At Home and Abroad (Royal Geographic Society) by Lillias Campbell Davidson (1889)

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