Curtsies & Conspiracies Visual Clues & Insider Trading Imagery (Finishing School Special Extras)

Dear Gentle Reader, Curtsies & Conspiracies is now available in trade paperback size! Soon, of course, Waistcoats & Weaponry releases in hard cover.

It was such a fun book to write, although it feels like so long ago now.

In case you have not read it here is a peek at some of the things featured in Curtsies & Conspiracies….

Spy communication via embroidery.

William Oliver Painting via British Painting tumblr

Cross dressing and fake mustaches.

Stolen boleros.

Bolero Cristobal Balenciaga, 1946 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vicious wicker furnishing.

Mass destruction of petticoats.

Petticoat 1840-1855 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subversive tea parties.

1850 April Tea Le Follet v. 34, plate 76

Transformation dresses.

Robe à Transformation 1865 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

There you have it.

If you’ve already read Curtsies & Conspiracies do you remember these moments? If not, before Waistcoats & Weaponry you might want to do a reread because Sophronia’s life is about to get a great deal more complicated.

P.S. Late tonight/early morning of Oct. 8 is a lunar eclipse in some parts of the world.

{What is Gail’s Book Group reading for October? Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers}

GAIL’S DAILY DOSE

Your Moment of Parasol . . .

1900-1905 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Your Infusion of Cute . . .

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Your Tisane of Smart . . .
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Your Writerly Tinctures . . .

“You have no right to expect that she will expose to you, or to any one else, her process of arranging the story, bringing out the characters, or concocting the dialogue. The machinery of her work, and the hidden springs which set it in motion, she naturally wishes to keep to herself; and she cannot be expected to lay them bare for the gratification of impertinent curiosity, letting them become subjects of idle gossip.”

~ The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie (1864)

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