Women of Acclaim

Research is one necessary task for a writer of historical fiction. Sometimes research uncovers the unexpected. While searching for portrait painters from the Georgian/Regency period I discovered that, when a personal act of George III founded the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, two of the founding members were women: Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman. […]

Writing Process Blog Hop

This week I’m participating in a Romance Writers Blog Hop.  I almost want to say the Great Romance Writers Blog Hop; it has been passed from writer to writer for some time. Not only do you get to know a little about me and my writing process, but I get to introduce you to fellow […]

What is Regency?

I recently saw the question “What is Regency?” My reaction was, “Do you mean people don’t know?” Since Dangerous Works and its soon to follow sequels are set in the era this is a question of some interest to me. Writers chat easily among themselves about what is Regency and what is Georgian and what is Victorian. […]

A Rare Bird: Letitia Landon and Hellenism

I’ve posted (and lamented) at length about women’s education or lack thereof in the Regency era and the years that followed.  The few women with any sort of rigorous intellectual life or semblance of a classical education were self taught.  Today I present an interesting example. Letitia Elizabeth Landon published poetry and novels under the […]

Education of Women in the Harem

Women in Ottoman society may have been better educated than their contemporaries in England. The education of women is a major plot point in Dangerous Works.  The topic seems to thread through many of my stories. I’m currently researching a new book, the third in the Dangerous series. To answer the question, “Might a woman be […]