Victorian Slang for Alexia & Trade Release Heartless & Timeless

Today trade paperbacks release of the final two Parasol Protectorate books, Heartless and Timeless.

New trade covers.

These books are larger in size than the mass market editions, also the print is larger and easier to read. The backgrounds are a more pail color. Content is unchanged, apart from the sample chapters at the back which may be different.

1811 Slang for Alexia

Sauce box ~ A bold of forward person.
Ottomised ~ To be dissected.
Trigrymate ~ An idle female companion.
I am not a plump currant ~ I am out of sorts.
Gudgeon ~ One easily imposed on.
Hobbleygee ~ A pace between a walk or a run, a dog-trot.
Piddling ~ Trifling, to do a thing in a small degree.
She’s a prime article ~ she’s a devilish good piece, a hell of a goer.
Bushel bubby ~ A full breasted woman.
Comfortable importance ~ A wife

~ 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

“…there is no wit, but there is shocking ungentility, in a lady to speak of taking a “snooze” instead of a nap,—in calling pantaloons “pants,” or gentlemen “gents,”—in saying of a man whose dress is getting old that he looks “seedy,”—and in alluding to an amusing anecdote, or a diverting incident, to say that it is “rich.” All slang words are detestable from the lips of ladies.”

~ The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book

by Eliza Leslie (American 1864)

Want more behind the scenes tricks and Easter eggs for these books? I am interviewed all about Timeless over on Sci-Fi Encounters

{What is Gail’s Book Group reading for July? Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause ~ YA werewolf from before it was a thing}

Your Writerly Tinctures . . .

“It is well to have always there a small writing-case of your own, with paper, pens, ink, wafers, sealing-wax, envelopes, post-office stamps, &c.”

~ The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book

by Eliza Leslie (American 1864)

Book News:
Girl Lost in a Book says of Heartless, “I love the characters and they feel like family…A fabulous read and I simply couldn’t put it down.”

Quote of the Day:

“It’s not just children who need heroes.”

~ Tamora Pierce

Tags: HEARTLESS, TIMELESS, Victorian Culture