So when I was doing research for the Finishing School series, Gentle Reader, I did a bunch of research into the Enigma Project. It totally fascinated me (yes I’ve watched the various movies). Not a lot ended up making it into the books, but here is a peek at the vocabulary notes I took. My […]
Oct232015
Researching The Enigma Project & Victorian Spies for Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School Special Extras)
Oct192015
Historical Questions for Victorian Ladies 1853 (Finishing School Special Extras)
If you were a respectable young lady in the Victorian Era, Gentle Reader, here are a few conversation topics you might be expected to have words on. This is the kind of thing Lady Linette might instruct the girls of Mademoiselle Geraldine’s with, in order to adequately prepare them for societal integration. Historical Question […]
Oct122015
A Conflagration of Research: Victorians & Food, Etiquette, Photo Resources (Finishing School Behind the Magic)
Today my dear Gentle Reader, I have a collection of stuff (all the stuff!) I thought might be of interest. Have fun! Some stuff about the Victorians and Food! Two of my most favorite subjects rolled together like a pig in a blanket. “As, for the fashionable, dinner moved later, after-dinner tea was no longer […]
Jul102015
Alternate Historical Names for Clothing in the Victorian Era (Finishing School Special Extras)
1811 ~ Alternate Historical Names for Clothing Togs ~ Clothes Articles or Inexpressibles ~ Underthings, sometimes Breeches Farting crackers or Galligaskins ~ Breeches Buntlings ~ Petticoats Fallalls ~ Ornaments, chiefly woman’s, such as ribands, necklaces, etc. India wipe ~ A silk handkerchief Specked whiper ~ A coloured handkerchief Knuckle-dabd, or knuckle-confounders ~ Ruffles Brogue ~ […]
Jun152015
Announcing the Final Cover Art for Manners & Mutiny!
Here, at last Gentle Reader, is the finalized cover art for the last Finishing School book, Manners & Mutiny. When a dastardly Pickleman plot comes to fruition, only Sophronia can save her friends, her school, and all of London… but at what cost? Our proper young heroine puts her training and skills to the test […]
Mar22015
Secret Layers, Cover Art & the New York Times for the Finishing School Books
Hello my darling Gentle Reader, you’ll notice the blog was a tad scarce last week. I’d apologize but I was away having way too much fun, and one should never apologize or excuse a really good time. I took myself off to some lovely hills and beautiful trees (and a bit of bad weather) to […]
Feb262014
Steampunk Names & 1811 Professions (Finishing School Special Extras)
I don’t mean to be cagey, Gentle Reader, but tomorrow I have fun times here on the blog. Yes indeed, exciting stuff. Meanwhile, I give you this little gem off the Finishing School Tumblr: And if you like, once you pick your name you can pick your profession… 1811 Slang Terms for Professions Author ~ […]